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Galaxy S4 rumored to support floating gestures.
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matttye, you're usually less "fanboyish" than this, so I'm surprised.
You say video recording/tabbed browsing/multi tasking/front facing camera/video calling have been around since you've been using computers. Right. But we're not talking about computers here...we're talking about cell phones. And cell phones DIDN'T have those things.
Turn-by-turn navigation...again, you're talking about a dedicated GPS unit. We're talking about it being included on a cell phone. It's a completely different argument.
The quick-launching of apps from the lock screens are two entirely different experiences. With the iPhone, you either have to have an active notification to be able to launch that particular app or you can launch the one app Apple allows to have a static icon on the lock screen...the camera. That's it. With something like the S3, you can specify up to 5 apps (of your choosing) and launch them from the lock screen until your heart is content. And that doesn't even include the option of using a custom lock screen launcher like WidgetLocker or Holo.
What is quick reply? Really??? It's a way to respond to a text message from within the app you're currently in (or even on the lock screen) without having to leave that app or even unlock the phone. If you've never used it, you have no clue what you're missing.
I'm sorry, but I'm completely disagree with you that this list isn't well thought out. It is. And if you'd used both platforms for a lengthy amount of time, you'd know that.
He's right though. None of those things are exactly innovations, more like obvious things to include eventually. Android phones just adapted them first and as something is considered a good usability pattern, it will start to appear in other platforms. I mean if you look at desktop software, tabs were not really seen that often in anything but control panels until web browsers started using them a lot. Nowadays many other types of apps rely on them.
This is pretty much the same as reading about a good idea and then implementing it in your work. People do this all the time and it's not stealing. To turn the tables around, you could say that Apple popularised a lot of things that we now take for granted in our smartphones.
Let's leave the software/hardware patents cluster**** to Apple/Samsung/Google lawyers to sort out.
Getting back on topic, Samsung's floating gestures seems like another poor interaction method for touch devices. The number one issue with any touch based device right now is the lack of physical feedback. Vibrating the device a little won't do, people want to feel the buttons etc. The tech already exists at least in prototype form but I still find it strange that despite being rumored for the iPad 3, it still hasn't surfaced anywhere. Afaik Nokia has had it in development for several years now too. That is the stuff all smartphone/tablet developers should be pushing to get to the market.
This is one of the two phones I had before I got the 1st gen iPhone:
http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_z140-1142.php
Announced Q1 2005. It had video recording, front facing camera and video calling.
The other phone I had before I got the 1st gen iPhone:
http://www.gsmarena.com/sony_ericsson_w850-1563.php
Announced May 2006. It had video recording, video calling, front facing camera and multitasking.
I'm not even sure where the tabbed browsing thing comes from. As far as I can see Android phones only seem to support windows, like the iPhone, but Android tablets support on-screen tabs, like the iPad. It doesn't really matter which one had tabbed browsing first. Neither of them stole the idea from one another because their desktop browsers already had that feature. Do you really think they needed to steal the idea of tabbed browsing from anyone?
Smartphones are devices that attempt to converge many devices into one device. It is clear that turn by turn directions is the logical next step to including digital maps. Again, what makes you think they stole that idea from Google and not TomTom or somebody? Do you really think Apple would say "Oh no, we can't possibly add that feature because it only exists on satellite navigation devices."
You just admitted the quick launching apps feature is completely different in iOS, so I need not say anything more about that.
The iPhone doesn't have a quick reply feature other than to click "View" on the popup notification, which it has had since it first came out, so I don't know how they could possibly have stolen that from Android?
Your post had a clear lack of thought too. What a waste of my time this is. Incoherent drivel being spouted by everybody.
Judging by the first couple of posts on this thread you can really tell that this thread got moved and was originally somewhere else. I can almost go back in time and hear the spittle smacking their monitors.
If he hadn't called me a fanboy when I really haven't been anything of the sort in this thread, I wouldn't have posted that last bit.
Sounds like an typical iPhone update.
Fanboy!
And your reply to will be:
matttye said:
That's a joke btw. Don't take being called a fanboy so seriously. All forums got 'em.
Sounds like an typical iPhone update.
Fanboy!
And your reply to will be:
That's a joke btw. Don't take being called a fanboy so seriously. All forums got 'em.
I wouldn't take it seriously if I did anything to warrant being called it. I simply responded to the guy's stupid list of apparently stolen features from Android and pointed out how ridiculous they were.
Sounds like an typical iPhone update.
Fanboy!
And your reply to will be:
That's a joke btw. Don't take being called a fanboy so seriously. All forums got 'em.
The last update had LTE. seems significant to me.
The 4s had Siri. Seems like a better upgrade than wireless charging.
How would this work without a stylus? If floating gestures worked with fingers as well as the stylus, you'd have to consciously hold your fingers away from the screen when you don't want things popping up while looking at something, or activating gestures you don't mean to use. The Note 2's implementation works as it's the stylus that activates floating gestures, fingers don't activate them.
It's a nice idea if it will work frustration free.
It's a nice idea if it will work frustration free.
I agree...good post until you started throwing the insults. Congrats for keeping it civil.
BTW, I didn't call you a fanboy...I said you usually aren't this "fanboyish". Take that how you will, but sometimes a reaction tells one everything they need to know.
Anyway...good day to you, sir.
Ignore all of my points why don't you
I've yet to see any reason from you why I'm a fanboy.