“Apple’s iPhone and iPad owners have been taking to the company’s forums over the past week to complain about iOS 7’s new parallax and zoom features,” Don Reisinger reports for CNET.
“Many of the folks in the forum said that they’ve experienced motion sickness, vertigo, nausea, and headaches due to the motion on-screen,'” Reisinger reports. “‘The zoom animations everywhere on the new iOS 7 are literally making me nauseous and giving me a headache,’ one forum poster wrote last week. ‘It’s exactly how I used to get car sick if I tried to read in the car.'”
MacDailyNews Take: Wow, “nauseous” spelled right and everything. Those automated Korean to English translators are getting better every day.
Reisinger reports, “Although zoom functions will likely remain in place with no ability to modify them, the parallax option can be mitigated from the Accessibility menu in iOS 7. Upon choosing ‘reduce motion,’ users should be able to turn off the parallax function.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Compare the accuracy of our headline to CNET’s: “iPhone, iPad owners complain of motion sickness due to iOS 7.” (The Verge‘s headline and article, from whence CNET based their article, suffers from the same problem.)
Prove it.
With Samsung known to pay off people to pose as Apple product users and post FUD online (example here and , forgive us if we’re skeptical.
Furthermore, what’s to stop a writer who needs an article posthaste from salting Apple’s support forums with whatever they want to write about? Answer: Nothing, except morals.
And besides, anything with a screen that has movement on it is capable of causing motion sickness in some segment of the population that is susceptible to or kinetosis.
In related news, an Apple forum user calling himself “Carpenter” and claiming to be an iPhone user last month wrote, “this Earth of yours will be reduced to a burned-out cinder” unless he issues Apple’s Siri the daily command, “Klaatu barada nikto!”
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “David M.” for the heads up.]
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