“One thing that’s cool about Tweetie 2 is the fresh paradigm to refreshing the contents of a table view. Up until now we had been looking for space to mount a reload button on, sometimes having to resort to adding an extra tool bar for just one view so that you can have enough space. Now if you have a tableview that it sorted reverse chronologically, then you have a natural urge to make new items appear at the top by pulling down the table with extra force.
Loren recognized this need and innovated the Pull-To-Reload paradigm. If you want to refresh a tableview in Tweetie 2 then you simply pull down the table far enough for an additional cell to appear at the top with the instruction “Pull down to refresh”. If you do, then at a certain point the arrow rotates and the text changes to “Release to refresh”. All accompanied by two distinct wooshing sounds and a pop once the reloading action has ceased. The Intuitiveness of this paradigm is so compelling in fact that people who use Tweetie 2 start to try to refresh ALL tableviews like this.”
When someone innovates people start copying. Or just taking inspiration, they say. But when an innovation becomes a standard, are we sure it’s good at all? Where’s the difference between an innovation that gets copied for good and something that gets stolen for the trend’s sake?
The AppStore will tell us.
