Maybe it was a blessing that the iPhone came with auto lock set to 30 seconds by default. It was so horrible I was forced to immediately change it. Though it may have also been better to follow the rule: make the defaults nice. With 30 second auto lock the screen was often dimming before I could figure out which button to press next. I think one minute would be a nice minimum for this, even for battery fascists.
But the options are less useful than it might at first appear. There are many options, but only from 30 seconds to 5 minutes and then Never. I actually went straight from the 30 second default to Never. But after a day or two that wasn't working out either. I thought 30 minutes would be just about right. But I could only chose the longest non-Never option, 5 minutes. That has actually worked out fine, but it still seems stupid to offer choices 1,2,3,4,5 minutes. They should be more like 1,2,5,10,20, as 3 and 4 minutes are not that much different, nor 4 and 5.
This should be pretty obvious. Was the 1,2,3,4,5 choice a last minute decision by the battery fascists?
And though it's less "simple" what about just letting people select the time continuously by typing or rolling odometer numbers?
But the options are less useful than it might at first appear. There are many options, but only from 30 seconds to 5 minutes and then Never. I actually went straight from the 30 second default to Never. But after a day or two that wasn't working out either. I thought 30 minutes would be just about right. But I could only chose the longest non-Never option, 5 minutes. That has actually worked out fine, but it still seems stupid to offer choices 1,2,3,4,5 minutes. They should be more like 1,2,5,10,20, as 3 and 4 minutes are not that much different, nor 4 and 5.
This should be pretty obvious. Was the 1,2,3,4,5 choice a last minute decision by the battery fascists?
And though it's less "simple" what about just letting people select the time continuously by typing or rolling odometer numbers?
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