It doesn’t happen with all that many of my apps, but it’s actually a pretty strange feature when you think about it: going from portrait to landscape mode makes sense, but being able to tilt the iPhone so that your app is actually running upside down just doesn’t work for me. If you’re lying in bed or are otherwise more horizontal than vertical, tilting your iPhone into landscape mode is one of the only ways you can keep the device usable without the current app see-sawing in and out of the two orientations. But some apps (Appigo’s Notebook is one) don’t reign the accelerometer in like I’d like them to, and it’s like a laundry simulation watching the world stay still, but my app spin in circles as I try to lock it in one orientation. Why on earth I’d want to write notes with my phone completely upside down is beyond me.
I’d really love for non-game developers to just lock the orientations to 90 and -90 degrees in their apps — or at least throw in a “lock orientation” switch like Stanza does.
/rant!
— Post From My iPhone on Blogpress, which also does cartwheels (unfortunately)
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