{"id":1516,"date":"2007-07-30T19:59:34","date_gmt":"2007-07-30T23:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/30\/iphone-volume-buttons\/"},"modified":"2007-07-30T21:51:30","modified_gmt":"2007-07-31T01:51:30","slug":"iphone-volume-buttons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/30\/iphone-volume-buttons\/","title":{"rendered":"iPhone Volume Buttons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.humanized.com\/weblog\/2007\/07\/30\/in_my_recent_article_about\/\">Aza Raskin<\/a>:\r\n<\/p>\r\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.humanized.com\/weblog\/2007\/07\/30\/in_my_recent_article_about\/\">\r\n<p>\r\nIn effect, physically rotating the phone into the BoB landscape mode has swapped the meaning of the buttons. The button that used to be in the position that maps to &ldquo;increase volume&rdquo; is now in the position that maps to &ldquo;decrease volume.&rdquo; The solution is to use software to swap them back.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p>\r\nI&rsquo;m not convinced, and I think the demo is irrelevant because it uses software buttons. With hardware buttons you remember how they feel and how they&rsquo;re positioned relative to the corner. The software buttons are centered, and there\u2019s nothing to feel. Especially if it&rsquo;s in a pocket, I would rather that the buttons behave predictably than have to guess what orientation the phone thinks it&rsquo;s in and then determine whether it&rsquo;s switched the meanings on me.\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aza Raskin: In effect, physically rotating the phone into the BoB landscape mode has swapped the meaning of the buttons. The button that used to be in the position that maps to &ldquo;increase volume&rdquo; is now in the position that maps to &ldquo;decrease volume.&rdquo; The solution is to use software to swap them back. I&rsquo;m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}