Gesture Wars

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  c3

  9 years ago

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  this is about "creative destruction" and the way technology works as a "profit center" planned obsolesence used to be in the plastics tensile strength.. today its in user interference design..
  
  the ipad is the mac of 1992. it has been used by apple to make applications "sellable" again, although at only a buck..lets see how that works over a decade,, cdroms /and flash entertainment now must be "reinvested" -relearned- rebought- even though the "products" are the same in basic "use"...
  
  anyhow.. more of machine scale marketing... human scale left the building with the virtuality of the corporation and the dollar.;)
  
  user interference-- its almost laughable that this is the love of the process patent and that's its sold as a better tool.

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  Dan

  9 years ago

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  My current frustration or "confusion" lies with tabbed email within a tabbed browser. The "back" button on my mouse is now rendered useless as it takes me out of email back to the homepage or previously viewed page (probably mcmaster), ruining the current search since individual emails are no longer view on unique pages but rather multiple tabs within the same page. Please go back! Browser with tabs = good. Email with tabs = bad.

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  Barbara Ballard

  9 years ago

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  A computer user with over 20 years experience and a mobile user (designer) with over 10 years experience, I happily lived in a world in which the scroll directions were reversed. Both made sense within their context. I even happily lived with 3 years of iOS and Android devices co-existing with my computer.
  
  Things changed when I started using touch tablet devices, in my case the iPad. I was frequently looking at the same web site, with the same design, on both the computer and the tablet. I started having problems with scroll direction, and would make errors regularly. The visual cues in the browser chrome were similar to my Mac.
  
  When I switched to Lion, I experimentally switched scroll directions. After two hours, 80% of my scroll errors were gone. About a week later I made nearly no errors in scrolling.

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  KAH KHIONG

  9 years ago

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  What SBMobile said is debatable. History is repeating again in the Tablet and Smart Phone market, just like Microsoft Windows did in the computer market. Windows dominated the computer market, the standard of the computer adapted the Windows platform: more Software for windows, most of the hardware was built for Windows, .... But, there are not guaranteed that EVERYONE is satisfied with the Windows. And so why they are other vendor s try to challenges its market by offering their Operating System. Now the competition is so much dramatic， especially with Chrome OS and Mac OS is reducing the gap of the selling. No One will Buy, Use or Care Those OS? i don't think so. That's also going to happened in the Tablet and Smart Phone market. There are people also care and use other OS in their Tablet and Smart Phone. That's why other try to challenge Apple's Market and it's getting more dramatic when Google bought MOTOROLA. There were surely more product challenge Apple's iPhone and iPad in near future. The best part is Apple will also show who are the boss in Tablet and Smart Phone market with new product, new application, new gestures, and most important new service (iCloud). The wars just continue with more unexpected and expected excitement.
  

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  SBMobile

  9 years ago

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  This article was big waste of time to read. The author had NO real point here. Most of the OS's for mobile (WP7 & Android), will not be around in tablet form, in the near future. NO one will buy them, NO one will care when they're gone either. The amount of iPad/iPad2's sold, means gestures will be adapted. It's funny how you're the only one I've heard complaining about this! Everyone else using the iPad or Lion seem to be satisfied with their purchases. It's a good thing news publications are moving completely over to the web. You would've just wasted a lot of their ink!

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  Alexander Goedde

  9 years ago

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  Both models, moving the content and moving the window, make equal sense in principle. Since downward scrolling is the more common action, this should preferentially be the one that is easier to execute. Curling your fingers on a touchpad is easier than extending them, and the difference is even more pronounced when using a mouse scroll wheel. I think the current model on the desktop is preferrable for this reason.

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  Leonard Lee

  9 years ago

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  In my opinion, different Vendor with different Gestures Interfaces hard to help us to choose the one which is the most comfortable with. I fell that we are forced to accepted this Gestures rather choosing the one right for us, especially when the one become dominate in the market. Confusion for choosing which one the right one for us always creating war between the vendors to introduce different Gestures and its application.

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  Vilson Martins Filho

  9 years ago

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  Awesome article!
  
  I totally agree when you say : "We are fans of progress, but enemies of confusion." but, the way I see, we can't have progress without some confusion first.
  
  So, in the and of the day, gesture interfaces will take simmillar way as the pointer/cursor history. A lot of confusion, and some standardization based on market share.
  
  
  

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