Accelerometer? More like Argh roar meter.
Say, ever had some landscape text that you just wanted to read, but couldn ‘t? You hold the iPhone up and you turn it sideways to read the image but then it suddenly turns 90 degrees and you ‘re back where you started. So you flip the iPhone around again only to have it flip another 90 degrees. I don ‘t need any instruments to tell you how silly all that pointless protracting is.
In most of the iPhone ads the presenters are holding the iPhones up in their hands, much like the way I use mine every single day. Seeing a black-sweatered Applebee sitting at a desk and poking at the phone just doesn ‘t look as good, and it ‘s not necessarily more comfortable.
Some apps get what Cupertino doesn’t, though. Off the top of my head, I know Stanza has a setting within the app to disable auto-rotate within a book so that you can treat it as such. I don ‘t think that the onus should lie with the app developers her, but rather with Apple. I ‘m not talking some on/off toggle deep in the settings menu, either. It’s true that the accelerometer simplifies a lot of actions, but it’s still poor design not to have any easy hardware or software switch to keep the screen from turning into a veritable washer/drier. If this year ‘s iPhone features a set of reigns that I can use to control this wild, motion-sensing stallion, then I ‘ll wave to you all from the launch day lineup at my Rogers store.
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