» One-handed computing with the iPhone - [cause no one has ever done that before]
The easy single-handed operation of the iPhone is not one of its obvious selling points but is one of those little features that grows on you and becomes nearly indispensable. A portable networked computing and gaming device that can be easily operated with one hand can be used in a surprising variety of situations.Jason Kottke outlines one of the most important, yet overlooked, features of the iPhone. It’s so obvious that it had not really dawned on me before how important this is.
This is a little ridiculous. It’s a puff piece. You can substitute any phone in for the iPhone here. Eating dinner, carrying things, typing, activities that rhyme with “whacking off”? Did people really only ever use two hands to do all these things before the iPhone came along and magically showed them they can do things with one?
I love the iPhone and I read Kottke everyday. But this piece is a too much. To say that one-handed computing is unique to the iPhone or an indispensable selling point is one of the more obtuse observations I’ve heard yet.
