[maemo-developers] Screenshot as loading screen on Maemo 5

[From: Aniello Del Sorbo]

2009/10/14 Andrew Flegg <andrew at bleb.org>:
> On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 10:14, Aniello Del Sorbo <anidel at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> That is true, but I remember once we were talking (here or on talk)
>> about this "feature" on the iPhone and we were calling them "liars".
>> It turns out, it's really annoying watching an empty dark screen for 2
>> seconds or even less.
>
> Not me, I've seen enough usability labs that I appreciated it as a
> nice hack to avoid some of the inevitable delays :-)
>
> It's still a hack, of course, and things should still start as quickly
> as possible.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Andrew
>

Was not talking about you. Just pointing out of funny it is that we
(in general) often complain on Apple 'hacks' to then later follow
their tracks.
Like the capacitive screens, no MMS, screenshots at load time and so on...

--
anidel
Sent from London, Eng, United Kingdom