LukasMathis

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by LukasMathis 15y ago
I'm willing to bet against you. Do you have access to an alternate universe where we can test your claim? :-)
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by LukasMathis 15y ago
However, Apple already does this in other cases. If you leave the Settings app and go right back in, you'll find it exactly the way you left it. If you wait (I'm not sure how long, could be hours), you'll start at the top of the app again.
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by LukasMathis 15y ago
If the "I launched the wrong app" problem is really why Apple did it like this, then they're optimizing for a rare use case at the expense of more common use cases.
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by LukasMathis 15y ago
Thanks for the explanation! (Yeah, I realize that using the back button to invoke the application's back function would cause its own set of issues. It's a case where the same button needs to do two different things based on the user's curr
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by LukasMathis 15y ago
If you exit an application accidentally, you can get back using the task switcher, like you say. The other situation you describe (you have a set of applications on a screen far away from the first home screen, and want to launch many of th
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by LukasMathis 15y ago
Yeah, I've noticed that, too. If you jump directly into, say, an individual email on Android, you can't move "up" inside the application. I wonder if I'm just missing something.
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by LukasMathis 15y ago
Fair enough. You make a good argument. Maybe lowering the price would increase revenue; I don't know.
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by LukasMathis 15y ago
The touch buttons aren't just an extension of the screen. For example, they don't provide visual feedback when they're active or activated, and when you're looking at the screen, they look like they're part of the bezel. Note that while you
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by LukasMathis 15y ago
I didn't set the price, but I will note that tech books typically only sell small numbers, regardless of price. It's a small target market.
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by LukasMathis 15y ago
This problem has now been fixed. If you've downloaded the book earlier, you can go to your pragprog account and download the updated version that fixes the formatting issues.
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by LukasMathis 15y ago
Maybe somebody else will do that, but if you go to the pragprog.com page for the book, you can read the preface and two sample chapters: http://pragprog.com/titles/lmuse/designed-for-use
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by LukasMathis 15y ago
That's actually what sold me on the cover image :-)
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by LukasMathis 15y ago
Thank you!
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by LukasMathis 15y ago
Wow, thanks!
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by LukasMathis 15y ago
The illustrations themselves are all okay, as far as I can tell; I've tried to make sure that they have enough contrast even on a greyscale screen like the Kindle's. However, there are some formatting issues with a few of the pictures on th
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by LukasMathis 16y ago
I prefer it because I don't have to click five times to see everything I need to see, every time I haven't looked at Skype for half an hour. And I prefer it because I don't have to constantly switch between chats just to see what people are
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by LukasMathis 16y ago
Check out webOS. The apps there do a good job dynamically resizing themselves. I suspect there's enough space on a tablet for both, say, an email message and a web browser, even at 1024x768 pixels. In fact, there's an iPad web browser that
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by LukasMathis 16y ago
The examples you mention (e.g. programming, then looking something up in documentation) only require you to switch between apps rarely. In those cases, it makes sense to let each app take up the whole screen. The additional screen space eac
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by LukasMathis 16y ago
>"It should be obvious that shipping with a broken copy-past is miles better than shipping with none at all." The problem with shipping broken features is that there is no pressure to fix them. It's much easier to add new features than
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by LukasMathis 16y ago
> "You keep using the word random. I don't think you know what it means, as the ordering is not random." The word "random" has more than one meaning. I'm using it in the colloquial sense of lacking context or being unexpected. I obviou
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by LukasMathis 16y ago
>"Maybe they found that the vast majority of people that add a chapter wanted to buy the book, so they made it the focus." Even assuming that most people wanted to buy the book when they opened a book sample's menu (which is unlikely,
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by LukasMathis 16y ago
I probably should have pointed it out. I've added a footnote. Writing blog posts like these is a balancing act. On the one hand, I want to keep it short and stick to the point I'm making. The fact that you can get a refund is not directly r
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by LukasMathis 16y ago
I didn't forget to mention the refund capability. I didn't mention it because it's not relevant to the point I'm making. I'm not saying that Amazon is somehow trying to steal money from people (I rather like Amazon). I also didn't write a g
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by LukasMathis 16y ago
It's possible, but Apple generally only adds small features after the initial introduction of a new system. I would be extremely surprised if something like notifications received a total overhaul for the final version of 4.0; I think they
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by LukasMathis 16y ago
Well, it wasn't my intention to be passive-aggressive. If anything, it seems active-aggressive :-) The article is about the iPhone's user interface, not about the backend; local notifications have nothing to do with the user interface. And
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by LukasMathis 16y ago
I don't understand how the task switcher makes a difference for one-handed operation. Either you hit home once, swipe, and tap to open an app, or you double-tap home, swipe at the bottom area of the screen, and tap to open an app. It seems
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by LukasMathis 16y ago
I agree, drawers would have been an apt metaphor. Also, drawers get stuck sometimes, so that would be something interesting Apple could emulate, as well :-)
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by LukasMathis 16y ago
So you're saying real-world folders switch around the positions of their contents when you open them? :-)
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by LukasMathis 16y ago
That's a great point. I certainly think applications should have the freedom to offer their own custom view of the user's data (as you point out, even hierarchical views, if that makes sense in their context - for example, it makes sense fo
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by LukasMathis 16y ago
Only devices with 256 MB of RAM support multitasking with 4.0, so the 3GS does, but the 3G does not.

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