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It's an ugly skeuomorph (much like the ugly bookshelf skeuomorph). I won't be sad to see it not implemented by competitors.
by warfangle 14y ago
It's an ugly skeuomorph (much like the ugly bookshelf skeuomorph). I won't be sad to see it not implemented by competitors.
- DGCA 14y agoI'd rather people not use it because it's ugly, not because it's patented.
- DigitalBoB12 14y agoIsn't Apple moving away from skeumorphism anyway? Do you think they just patented it for protection from lawsuits if someone else were to be granted the patent?
- warfangle 14y agoRumor has it they are (the designer responsible for it left a little while back). No idea why they would have patented it.
- ImprovedSilence 14y agoI think so, yes, but I think the application was applied for a year or so ago (or maybe two years, too lazy to look it back up.)
- bitcartel 14y agoArticle: "The page-turn patent was filed in December 2011, but was approved this week."
- nsxwolf 14y agoI get that it's a skeuomorph, and that skeuomorphs are the cool thing to hate now, but what's ugly about it? I think it is very beautiful and elegantly done. Are books ugly?
- GuiA 14y agoWhy do we need a metaphor for a physical page on a digital device?
- graeme 14y agoWe don't need one. But they can look nice. Corinthian columns are based on wooden palm tree supports from ancient egypt. They're obviously not necessary now, but they're pretty.
- kennywinker 14y agoIt helps alert the user to how the data they are being shown is changing. There are lots of non-skeuomorphic animations that could serve this purpose... cross-dissolves, flashes, slide-ins, etc. This just happens to be a reasonably nice one, that fits with the "this-is-a-book" metaphor of iBooks. Even the name of iBooks is "skeuomorphic". It would be more accurately called "iMedium-to-long-static-documents-available-for-purchase" but that's a fucking awful title. Everybody has an idea of what a book is, so calling it iBooks means users know that there are book-ish-things contained within. An app called iBooks where the next page trickled down like the title sequence from The Matrix would be tacky as hell and users would ask themselves why their "book thing" was doing this non-book thing.
- nilsbunger 14y ago+1 for "iMedium-to-long-static-documents-available-for-purchase" !
- chj 14y ago+1. If that means less page turn animation in ebook readers, it is a good thing.