Comments on: A Case for a Better “Landscaping”

By: J

Mon, 26 Apr 2010 01:55:51 +0000

Completely diagree. I am young and my eyes are fine. That said, the fonts are often TINY. Reading on my RSS app gets very tiring. Unlike the browser, or NYtimes app, every article via my rss or Twitter app simply has no way to increase the font size of linked articles.

No one would ever read articles normally with such tiny font, but we’re forced to with our iPhones.

By: Milind Alvares

Milind Alvares — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:28:35 +0000

Coverflow on the iPhone is a genius marketing move. Imagine the average consumer, being wowed by how they can ‘touch their music’ just by flipping their device—instant sale! It’s just bothersome that those who stick to the device have to put up with its idiotic design decisions. Thank god for the rotation lock via the SBS settings jailbreak thingy I don’t have to worry about landscape on my iPhone anymore.

By: Dave K

Dave K — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:25:41 +0000

Whoever at apple decided cover flow was a good idea on the iPhone/Touch should be slapped. I LOATH it. Also I should actually have the option to dissable it all together, ANY landscape

By: Asfaq Tapia

Asfaq Tapia — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 16:35:42 +0000

I bought an iPhone just 3 days ago and like Patrick, in the comments, absolutely hate the landscape mode. There, I said it.

By: Binary Hammer

Binary Hammer — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 21:10:18 +0000

Being a game developer, I suppose my view is a little biased. Most games *need* landscape so the player can see more, not less, of the view. Canabalt, for example, would be almost pointless if the view was locked to portrait. Our game, Polyhedra, makes use of any orientation (the player can change the orientation at any time, indeed, the gameplay almost requires it), both in-game and in the front end menu screens. In landscape mode in the menus, you see just as much as portrait, as everything is scaled to fit.

There is a Lite version of Polyhedra available in iTunes so feel free to check it out as an example.

By: Milind Alvares

Milind Alvares — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:25:02 +0000

@Kevin/James: While I surely didn’t think about accessibility, I’m sure there are better ways (like minimum font sizes, or pinching to increase font size) that would be better suited to service those with reading problems and those with 20/20 vision. In fact, Mail (in the settings in the settings app) allows you to set the minimum font size for better reading, I’d suggest you check that out.