More gestures coming in the next iPhone OS?
We know, we know, you’re sick of future iPhone OS rumors… but one more couldn’t hurt right? The folks over at 9to5Mac have been exploring the new iPhone 3.2 beta 4 SDK, and have found a few files that could indicate more gestures are coming to the next iPhone OS. Something we reported on a pretty decent amount of time ago. The two files, “3Tap.plist” and “LongPress.plist, are located in the “gestures” library folder and, according to 9to5Mac, are not in previous versions of the SDK. Now, we know that “three taps” does not have a defined OS-wide function in the current iPhone OS, but we’re pretty sure that a “long press” will bring up a contextual menu to copy, cut, and paste among other things. For those iPhone haters out there, we’re pretty sure we know what one fingered gesture you want to give the iPhone… but unfortunately the “FlipBird.plist” file was not included in this build of the SDK. Check out the full report at 9to5Mac.
@ Mike
Nice job having “dignity” there, Mike.
I feel bad for you, Gergory. You may be a decent person, but its obvious iPhone fans are not…
“long press”! Who invented that? Someone sue Appple.
someone or company. how? it cost a ton
You all know that longpress has been in mobile safari since 1.0, right? If you hold down a link then you get a new menu with options how to handle that link.
But yeah, google did an awesome job of inventing that a year later. Congrats on that.
When it comes to input gestures, why can’t we all get along. Seriously someone patent dance moves next?
Hey how about some 3rd party multitasking??????? Fuck the gestures. You Apple fucks will still defend oh Stevie even if the new Iphone doesn’t include 3rd party multitasking.
Apple makes a huge deal about their apps, but won’t let you run them in the background.
While speaking with a friend over beers about android vs. Apple, he used the word polished to describe the iPhone. I think it fits well apple haters. Btw, I do like the android os. Being and Att employee, I will probably carry one of each when ATT releases a decent android phone. Thought I would share.