iPhones and the Gesture Revolution
I … had a mini-eureka moment [thinking about the commonality among popular iPhone applications vs. other mobile applications]. When the application happens to be a verb phrase - I want to [Google, Wikipedia, eBay, Twitter, Flickr, etc.] something - the iPhone does a masterful job handling atomic tasks. Now, if Salesforce, or even the Bloomberg application (which admittedly, they are developing for the iPhone) rethinks their applications in the sense of verb phrases rather than monolithic applications, yet again, the iPhone can win. Gestures beat typing when the task is finite and confined - ergonomics - it’s why we drive cars by a wheel and not levers or a keyboard.
The question is, as iPhone applications become more ubiquitous, how will this gesture revolution change expectations about desktop applications and browser interaction?
The iPhone may do what the browser’s been attempting to do for the past 15 years - kill the monolithic application metaphor for good.
Originally posted as a comment by gbattle on BijanBlog using Disqus.
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