Trying iPhone Pro — camera control is a gimmick. Critiques:
First, when you lift your iPhone to take a picture, I am so used to clicking and holding the camera in the bottom right corner, and so having to retrain yourself to click the button in the bottom right corner is a little bit into it. I’m confused, wasn’t the action button in the top left corner supposed to also be a Camera control?
I think the idea of clicking the bottom right corner camera button to quick draw the camera was a very good idea, one of my ideas, but having to kind of awkwardly squeeze it to scroll through menus which is a little bit slow and inaccurate… It is probably 10 times lower than just quickly swiping in the bottom of the Camera app?
Critique of skeuomorphism
I suppose this is the real kicker here; it is ultimately a critical skill more physical. The whole innovation in the ethos of the iPhone was originally, to not make it like a physics based object. To add the camera control in the bottom right corner, it’s almost like trying to turn the iPhone into a point-and-shoot camera by adding physical body. Technically, the whole ethos of iPhone should be to remove as many Pisco Perkins possible, ideally there would be no physical buttons. That it could just be a magical handheld piece of glass, with no buttons, no controls.