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- Aminmadani, on 10/10/2007, -8/+106If only Digg had a video section to submit topics like this.
- Solomonenator, on 10/10/2007, -5/+56I love you
- conshok26, on 10/10/2007, -4/+47haha this is great. the best part is that it would work pretty well.
- Ireland, on 10/10/2007, -6/+39I'm nearly crying here, very funny!!
Seriously though, the copy part could be made much more user friendly. You select text with one finger by bringing up the loupe, then you add a second finger to the screen, but you don't lift up either of the two fingers liked demoed, instead you drag both fingers to the end point as you would with a mouse, the text highlights in blue as per norm, and thanks to multi-touch the iPhone knows to keep the loupe centered with your first finger, you lift both fingers and that's when the cut/copy/delete dialog appears. That would be even easier then a mouse too. - schoate09, on 10/20/2007, -7/+39No one looks in the video section.
- NicksVideo, on 10/10/2007, -3/+32I get my affection from online videos too.
- laserob, on 10/10/2007, -2/+21The clipboard had multiple selections.
- tinkafoo, on 10/10/2007, -5/+24Welcome to Costco
- PARAPA, on 10/20/2007, -0/+16His mouth scares me
- RATIO, on 10/10/2007, -2/+17there's a little button on the clipboard that says Select... that would allow you to bypass Paste and continue selecting text. i didn't go into the specifics because i wanted to keep it short (and pithy).
- DaBrainiac, on 10/10/2007, -4/+18Brilliant video! Give Vimeo some love.
- Snoz, on 10/10/2007, -14/+26I still can't believe the iPhone can not copy and paste. How retarded is that!?
p.s - and you paid $600 and are paying $60/month, pfft. - Firehed, on 10/10/2007, -3/+15Blackberry service costs about twice that, and those phones are unbearably assey in every way I've had the displeasure of experiencing them. FFS, reading even plain text email was painful when I had to borrow my dad's for a few minutes (though in fairness, he definitely has the worst model BB out there), and those are primarily mobile email devices.
Don't get me wrong - the iPhone has it's shortcomings. You've cited one of them, and as an iPhone owner, I'm quite willing to admit there are others. That doesn't change the fact that it's unquestionably the best mobile device I've ever used. - FXPooky, on 10/10/2007, -1/+11Sorry but you have no idea what you're talking about. Go watch the long iPhone demonstration on Apple.com. Notice the guy doing the presentation: it's the same guy. This is just very basic, anyone-with-video-effects-knowledge-can-do-it, 2D motion tracking of the guy's mouth onto the Apple video.
- drumpat01, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10wow that is really cool and I think it could actually work. Great idea and great video editing.
- Konstantino, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8I laughed so hard on that long pause when he was moving his eye brows and wasn't talking.
- ikickass, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8no it shouldnt because we are digging the idea and concept, not the video.
- NicksVideo, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7I'm just pasting this from another reply to you because you have no idea what you're talking about. Go watch the long iPhone demonstration on Apple.com. Notice the guy doing the presentation: it's the same guy. This is just very basic, anyone-with-video-effects-knowledge-can-do-it, 2D motion tracking of the guy's mouth onto the Apple video.
- spicytuna, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7is it just me or it's the SAME gesture for copy as it's for paste. How does it know when you want to enter 'select' mode versus bringing up the clipboard?
magnify, second finger tap = select mode
magnify, second finger tap = clipboard
:confused; - eridius, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8I hope you've filed an enhancement request against the iPhone for this on bugreport.apple.com.
- KennMac, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7I can't believe you're seriously asking that question...
- RATIO, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6there's a button there (in the video) that says "Cancel".
- rompom7, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7Damn that was creepy. Please good sir, do not make me watch that again.
Pet peeve: Does anyone here actually know what 'proof of concept' means? No it does not mean 'this is how my concept would look like'.. It means you have a working example of your concept. - AfterTen, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Doesn't need to be on an iPhone 2G, simple software update would bring it to the current crop of iPhones.
- Ireland, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6They could easily make it scroll it little as you approach the edge of to screen to ensure that wouldn't happen, that's a small hurdle. The invention of that loupe UI was the amazing achievement here, that was the hard part, they did that already. The rest is simple in comparison.
- aiten, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5It's a fake mouth pasted on top of the real apple guy
- Billions, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5...And then, someone has to go and be a dick. And of course, that trolling guy has to be JABBERWOLF, who only trolls Apple topics. You sure are busy these days, Jabberwolf. Apple-people-bashing... What a hobby.
- tdowling, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5FTLJohnson, you say this like 5 times, yet you're wrong like 5 times. This guy just superimposed his mouth over an already-existing video. 'Twasn't an "avatar."
- ahill7, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Doesn't proof of concept imply something more than a mockup?
- carl25, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4i love you too
- superyounan1, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4i love you too.
- DejectedRobot, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4That was both creepy, and funny at the same time.
- mmxtreme, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Seriously, that's pretty awesome. The gesture looks very natural and simple to use. The clipboard popup is great too. Awesome work and the lipsyncing is really funny.
- hlcno, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5I love you.
- Bulldogge16, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3That was an awesome video, dont have an iPhone nor a Apple, but that was pretty well done...
- nickbarber, on 10/10/2007, -4/+7Yep, it's too low.
- KirinDave, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Funny video, but the actual interface demo'd is worthless crap. "Select mode?" Yeah, that's just what we want to introduce into the iphone text editor. Modality.
Instead, why not have selections be grabbed from the loop mode when a second finger touches the screen and drags? And clipboard history? It's a nice feature for geeks, but its superfluous for the iPhone. Apple's already patented the copy and paste gestures, they just need to get the selection mode down.
It's videos like this that remind me how good Apple is at what they do. - Konstantino, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Yeah, it's the body/head of the iPhone tour guy on Apple.com with someone else's mouth and voice. I just though it was funny how he filled in gaps with the random motion of the eye brow and the "I love you" at the end.
- Ben174, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Is it just me or is everything on Vimeo extra-funny.
- lukehh, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Awesome.
We all know that is exactly what the weird apple man was thinking....he finally just went out and said it! - streak, on 10/10/2007, -2/+4I believe it would work more naturally without using a second finger. After positioning the insertion point with the loupe, just release the finger and quickly tap the screen again to get a menu to appear.
- ACMoxon, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Haha, yes. The lypsync is hillarious. Quite a solid proof of concept video -- both intelligent and funny.
- RATIO, on 10/10/2007, -4/+6this would assume, however, that if you drag up or down past the edge of the screen, iPhone knows to scroll up or down to accomodate you. and i think that technology (the drag-and-scroll) is a little trickier to pull off, seeing as how, your fingers would literally stop moving at the edge of the screen, even though your intent would be for the movement to continue. that is why it is a necessary step to lift your fingers off and scroll in the usual manner.
- pabloD, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2that was awesome. great proof of concept. i love you too.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2No, modal popup dialogs and convoluted scenarios are the Microsoft way of doing things, and it sucks.
In the video you can't copy text in an edit window, which is dumb. And as the other comment described, you only have one shot to get the selection right before you're harassed with a popup dialog. Extra dumb.
All you need to do is make the magnifier sticky so you can position it freely, and display a couple of buttons for cut and paste. Simple. - andrew52, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2best laugh i got all day.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Nope. It would be very difficult to double-tap and land on the right spot to start the selection.
Plus, if you're positioning the cursor for a paste and accidentally double-tap you clobber what was on the clipboard. - konstantinos88, on 10/10/2007, -2/+4That guy was the person who did the hour-long iPhone tutorial about a week before the iPhone came out.
- sp1nm0nkey, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I'll probably get dugg down for this BUT, this is incredibly un-apple. See... pinch zoom is cool because it's obvious, put two fingers, and pull, you're making the interface more in sync with how you'd think it'd work. Why would tapping with a second finger have anything to do with copying? You'd have to put it in the manual or something for people to get it. It's just not obvious. What happens if you're selecting and you touch the screen with another finger accidentally? Now you have this copy dialog that people have to click through, which is really difficult because if someone hasn't read the manual and doesn't know that it exists, they'll wonder how they got there, and get frustrated by how to get to it again.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -3/+4Would you just stfu?
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