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Starting with iOS 4.3, Apple implemented a new functionality for iPad tablets, multitouch gestures. Using gestures with 4 or 5 fingers we can close an application, switch from one application to another or open the task switcher without using the home button of the tablet. Gestures can also be activated on the iPhone, but believe me, it's not worth the trouble. On the iPad, on the other hand, you learn to use them almost immediately and notice that the Home button loses its usefulness. It's easier to swipe on the screen to go to the previous window and it's easier to pinch with all the fingers of one hand to close an application than to use the Home button (here, of course, we're only talking about certain cases).
I know some of you are skeptical about these multitouch gestures, but until you try them on a big screen, you won't understand how useful they are. Apple has refused to offer them in iOS for now, saying that we can only have them from iOS 5, but if you have Xcode installed on your Mac, you can activate them extremely simply and easily, even without a developer account at Apple. Why does Apple "keep" this function until iOS 5? My opinion is that in iOS 5 Apple will implement a lot of new things, including a much more complex multitouch gesture system than what we have now. I personally think that Apple will reorient the iOS experience towards such gestures, but only for iPad/iPad 2 tablet owners, not for those with an iPhone or iPod Touch.
When iOS 4.3 for iPad was released, along with it came some videos in which we demonstrates how much the system makes it difficult to activate these gestures. On the iPad 2, the situation is completely different, everything runs as smoothly as possible and the only application that has problems opening if we use multitouch gestures to activate it is the Settings application. I think that Apple will change a lot by implementing a complex system of multitouch gestures and this will definitely give them an advantage over the competition.
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in my opinion it's also good for the iPhone, I use it and I got used to it quite quickly, although sometimes it makes mistakes when you use some applications in which the screen changes its orientation mode
ps: what do you say there Moss... the link doesn't work
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I think it can also be used on the iPhone, but with two fingers...
I believe that it could still be useful on the iPhone, at least to prevent excessive wear of the "home" button under conditions of intense use, especially since enough people have already complained about the appearance of problems in its operation (I mean hardware problems and not to iOS 4.2.1 bug).
Kind of confused the article - multitouch gestures have been on iPhone since the very beginning, from day one of the first version of iPhone and the operating system later called iOS, and before that they existed on Mac OS X. So there is nothing revolutionary about multitouch gestures anymore now, after years of evolution of this system.
In fact, the novelty is the fact that Apple invented some NEW gestures, in addition to the existing ones, and the new gestures improve the way of multitouch interactions, representing an evolution (not a revolution) of the existing system so far.
But the claims that there were no multitouch gestures before iOS 4.3 and that their appearance represents a revolution are not only exaggerated, but also confusing.
see if this link works http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8Y2FTkGtBc
Lol, I said it's about the multitouch gestures with 4 and 5 fingers implemented in iOS 4.3, I said that from the very beginning. I clearly differentiated.
@zaone: I think you mean something else - the article starts with: "Starting with iOS 4.3 Apple implemented a new functionality for iPad tablets, multitouch gestures." So multitouch gestures were only implemented in 4.3, until then we didn't have multitouch gestures on iOS?! Then you really mean 4-5 finger gestures, but in a way where it's understood that these are all the multitouch gestures that exist, being newly implemented, so other gestures don't exist anymore and didn't exist before 4.3 . That's why it seems to me that the article is expressed confusingly, you'd better have talked about the "new multitouch gestures" from iOS 4.3 and not just about "multitouch gestures", which have existed since iPhone 1 (and after a few years they were also copied by Nokia and Android, being pending lawsuits in this regard, so the multitouch concept is not a novelty of iOS 4.3).