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The little bubble thing is a weird chinese quirk - http://www.businessinsider.com/chinese-use-assistivetouch-on-iphone-2015-5 http://www.businessinsider.com/chi
by pki 11y ago
The little bubble thing is a weird chinese quirk - http://www.businessinsider.com/chinese-use-assistivetouch-on-iphone-2015-5 http://www.businessinsider.com/chinese-use-assistivetouch-on... if you're interested on that
- lordnacho 11y agoAssistive touch is also useful if one of your real buttons gets broken. I borrowed a friend's iPhone to dev on it, but the power/sleep button was broken. AT solves this by providing an on screen version.
- carlob 11y agoMy brother found this because his home button was broken and now my parents have picked up on it even if their home button is perfectly functional.
- joezydeco 11y agoI was using it to bypass a broken lock button. Only catch is that you can't turn it on easily - plugging it in is the only way to restart the phone.
- digi_owl 11y agoReading about what assistive touch does on the iPhone, i find myself thinking about faucet design. These days you find this dual direction (lift to open, left and right to adjust temperature mix) type everywhere. But as best i can tell it was originally designed with handicapped users in mind.
- rimantas 11y agoA lot of tech started with disabled people in mind: telephone, remote control, even typewriter iirc.
- jacobolus 11y agoA faucet with an interface in terms of the two attributes you generally care about (pressure and temperature) is in theory much better for everyone than one in terms of two implementation-detail attributes (amount of hot/cold water flowing into the mixture). Unfortunately many of the one-control faucets have terrible mechanical engineering under the interface, and as a result you often can’t adequately control either pressure or temperature, and the two aren’t actually separated orthogonally (i.e. as you move the control along one axis both attributes change, and to change just one attribute you must adjust the control along both axes)
- judk 11y agoThis is called [universal design], as opposed to designing only for users with abilities in a limited range (usually the "average" user)
- peteretep 11y ago> chinese Everyone in Thailand seems to have it switched on too
- geomark 11y agoYep, that's also my observation.
- MontrealNick 11y agomore proof users aren't dummies. they're saying they want to move more quickly through the OS. mechanical keys and accompanying sw animations are too slow.
- ahoge 11y agoBy the looks of it, the physical button is just more annoying to press because it's at the very bottom of the device. You can't easily reach it with your thumb.
- joezydeco 11y agoIt's always on top and you can drag it anywhere on the screen any time you want. Sometimes it gets in the way of keyboards and etc and it has to be pushed over to keep working.