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Everyone's experience is different I guess, but I have never once in my life found myself trying to peer around my own finger. Touching the screen to control wh

by mrcwinn 12y ago

Everyone's experience is different I guess, but I have never once in my life found myself trying to peer around my own finger. Touching the screen to control where I want information to move is intuitive and precise. Tilting a screen is, for me, very counterintuitive and imprecise. And despite Sergey Brin claiming it's emasculating to touch a screen, I still find the experience a bit magical. Really I don't see the Fire as being any different than what Samsung has done: it's harder and harder to innovate on hardware, so you come up with some whimsical feature that solves a problem few actually have. But who knows! Maybe it's just great.

azinman2 12y ago
Exactly. I've never felt like it was a fundamental issue because I can always move my finger. My biggest concern is this will be the new phone rotation that I always turn off because as soon as I want to read in bed it'll start to scroll constantly. Maybe they've figured this out but knowing the correct orientation plane to start, figuring out that I'm simply moving myself around or temporarily putting the phone down and I don't want it to scroll, or any of the many other similar scenarios seem very problematic to me. That said firefly and the dynamic perspective looks very cool. Not sure how often I'll want to scan the world around me but maybe I'm wrong. The DP seems more like the thing that would affect everyday more radically. Hopefully it doesn't get gimmicky and annoying and instead seems like what it should have always been like all along.
- gknoy 12y ago
  I noticed it most glaringly in playing Samurai vs Zombies. You tap to the right or left of your character to move them, and that means that my finger is directly in the way of seeing whether there are enemies to interact with.
GFischer 12y ago
Fingers are very bad for some games, menu-based RPGs for example :) but those weren't good ports to Android. If there's significant adoption, it could enable some gimmicky gameplay :) (like Nintendo DS) or gimmicky apps. Maybe one of those turns into a killer feature and we'll see the next gen of smartphones playing catch-up. It's an interesting gamble.

by mrcwinn 12y ago

azinman2 12y ago

Exactly. I've never felt like it was a fundamental issue because I can always move my finger. My biggest concern is this will be the new phone rotation that I always turn off because as soon as I want to read in bed it'll start to scroll constantly. Maybe they've figured this out but knowing the correct orientation plane to start, figuring out that I'm simply moving myself around or temporarily putting the phone down and I don't want it to scroll, or any of the many other similar scenarios seem very problematic to me. That said firefly and the dynamic perspective looks very cool. Not sure how often I'll want to scan the world around me but maybe I'm wrong. The DP seems more like the thing that would affect everyday more radically. Hopefully it doesn't get gimmicky and annoying and instead seems like what it should have always been like all along.

gknoy 12y ago
I noticed it most glaringly in playing Samurai vs Zombies. You tap to the right or left of your character to move them, and that means that my finger is directly in the way of seeing whether there are enemies to interact with.

GFischer 12y ago

Fingers are very bad for some games, menu-based RPGs for example :) but those weren't good ports to Android. If there's significant adoption, it could enable some gimmicky gameplay :) (like Nintendo DS) or gimmicky apps. Maybe one of those turns into a killer feature and we'll see the next gen of smartphones playing catch-up. It's an interesting gamble.