Stopwatch - lap feature

Watching Olympic track and field recently confirmed for me that the lap feature in the stopwatch application is wrong.

When you touch the Lap button on a running stopwatch the cumulative time should not reset to zero. The cumulative time should be just that - cumulative - so when you complete your, let's say 4 laps around the track, you hit stop and know your total time. The individual lap times are displayed in the list (very nice), but you shouldn't have to add those up in your head to figure out your total time.

I was hoping with the 2.0 upgrade that this would be fixed, or that you could get into some settings for the stopwatch and change this strange default behavior.

Am I missing something?
Or where is the iTouch/iPhone standard applications feedback/feature request page?

Thanks

G5, Mac OS X (10.4.11), MacBook Pro

Posted on Aug 20, 2008 9:31 AM

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Aug 20, 2008 11:04 AM in response to akaBT

Hmmm...you are right about this. That is the way it behaves all right. To get the total elapsed time you have to manually add up all the laps. There should be a way to get that total time automatically.

I checked the iPod touch user manual and see nothing about how to enable this. I looked through Settings and can see nothing applicable. I think it's a feature bug, as it were, and should be corrected.

In the meantime there are probably 3rd-party apps that do the job better.

Sep 10, 2008 3:19 PM in response to akaBT

Just wanted you to know I second your opinion about the Stopwatch implementation being bad. It's bugged me since Day 1 when I got my touch. I've contacted Apple via their bug reporting mechanism about six months ago, and each time there's an update, I keep my fingers crossed that they'll finally get it right, but that hasn't happened yet. Hope they get enough input to finally correct the problem.

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