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Originally Posted by BigNumbers
I hate to break it to you, but I don't know that this is objectively true. I have an 8 Plus and I can easily hold it in one hand and reach the top of the screen with my thumb. An 8 (non plus, as you noted) my wife can do the same easily.
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Oh, but it is.
Double-tap your home button for me. Notice how the top of your phone display drops to about half-height? That's called "Reachability". It was introduced starting with the iPhone 6/6 Plus, and it was literally born of the fact that users would likely have difficulty reaching the entire screen with one hand.
That manufacturers have en masse adopted various implementations of this functionality blows away any suggestion that phone screens these days aren't too big for comfortable one-handed use for most people.
I'm 5'11" and I don't have particularly small hands, and I concur with Thneed that the 8 is still too big -- though it'll have to do until Apple (PLEASE FFS) makes an updated SE form factor.
Holding the 8 with my right hand (pinky underneath to support the bottom of the device), if I try to tap the top-left screen control (eg: the little Bacon logo in BaconReader) without shifting my grip a lot, I usually end up being off enough that ~50% of the time I hit whatever is just beneath it. That's annoying and something I didn't need to do with the SE.
"Then just shift your grip."
Which means the entire body of an already svelte and slippery device moves, my pinky barely if at all continues to support the bottom of the device. This increases the odds of the damn thing slipping out of my hand. Putting on a case fixes the slippery complaint (maybe) at the cost of making the device bigger still, which means one-handed operation sucks even more now.
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Originally Posted by DownhillGoat
I'm not being an idiot, I'm just not assuming they'll have the issues ironed out anytime soon considering they continue to make horrible choices with their laptops, even after publicly apologizing for some of the flaws. The removal of the SD slot, and the horribly executed touch bar for example.
A control like gestures should never have been clunky out of the gate, and if it was it should have delayed release. But they seem to just ram it through and hope that too many people don't switch.
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Apologies, but I took your remark as a sarcastic quip suggesting I'm some sort of technology luddite. Safe to say I agree with everything you just said.