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Originally Posted by holymadness
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7. Browsing — Web Browser
While loading Youtube videos, the entire screen feels empty because the "loading" screen is at the top right corner
- iPhone: "Loading" sign appears at the center of the screen while video is loading
- S1: "Loading" sign appears at the top right corner of the screen while video is loading
iPhone: It's easy to see the "Loading..." sign in the video screen because it's located at the center of the screen
S1: Because the "Loading" sign appears in the top right corner of the screen while YouTube video is loading, the screen below feels very empty.
Directions for improvement: Modify by inserting the text in large font at the center of the screen to match LCD size. |
holymadness, this is what you said: "There are 130 pages of blatant recommendations to
copy almost every UI element of iOS." One would take that to mean Samsung recommended copying over 100 UI elements
exactly as iOS has them.
What is actually in that document are 127
areas identified for improving functionality, making things easier to read, cleaning up a cluttered screen, or correcting actual UI errors -- most of which
did not include any specifics as to how to achieve those things.
For example, looking at just the first 10 items, at least 9 of them were of this nature. Perhaps only item #4 concerning the Hold button can be construed as a direct order to copy a UI element (though it has functionality as well). As for the item you called out -- #7 -- as afv011 pointed out, it is a common sense functional improvement which is not significant to the look and feel of iOS.
So, without having gone through each one, it appears the great majority of the things in that document were not direct recommendations to outright "copy" iOS. As such, my opinion that you mischaracterized the nature of the document still stands.
--Pat