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You assert "Apple fans can ramble all they want about how everything is simple and easy" without evidence. This is incorrect. For example, many pro-Apple comme
by cjensen 14y ago
You assert "Apple fans can ramble all they want about how everything is simple and easy" without evidence.
This is incorrect. For example, many pro-Apple commenters have discussed how the "home" button on iOS devices is a horror show of modality which performs about at least five different actions.
You also dismiss arcane and obscure actions too easily. There is nothing wrong with providing an obscure action as a "keyboard accelerator" so long as there is also an obvious way to perform the same action too. You're examples of "double-tap the home button" and "shake to undo" are good examples where this principle is not obeyed: there is no simple alternative and is, as you say, a UI compromise.
- kevingadd 14y agoI'm responding to the original article. This should have been clear to you by the fact that my comment was at the root? I don't disagree with your thoughts on the difference between scenarios where a bad verb is chosen as a shortcut and scenarios where a bad verb is the only way to do something. However, that still isn't relevant to my core point, which is that the iPhone has been and continues to be a place where important actions can only be performed with poorly chosen, confusing, undiscoverable verbs. This is hardly unique to Apple, to be sure, but again, I was responding to the original article's smug assertion.