When Apple announced force touch I said "We'll see that on iPhone next." So this does not surprise me at all.
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Next-Generation iPhones Said to Feature Force Touch, Lack Dual-Lens Camera System
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likewise. and not to mention that my contract cycle has me on the S-track. Did any one of the S iterations have their own -gate 'scandal' (i really get annoyed at the -gate thing...) ? if memory serves, the 4 had cell service issues, 5 had the LTE antennae issues, and 6(+) the 'bend'. And not to mention more refined cases!
It's the physics force def.
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Nope no real scandal AFAIK and I have had all S phones. S cycle is the best cycle imo. Having an extra year to iron the issues of new hardware is always good.
Not sure I understand the capabilities of this immediately, and thus won't be deviating/upgrading from my normal 2 year cycle of the next generation of iPhones, (4-5-6) anytime soon just for this feature.
TouchID was almost worth doing so, seriously, how can anyone live without it once they've used it?
Give it to Luke and any other Jedi to try and advertise "Use the Force Luke" etc.
TouchID was almost worth doing so, seriously, how can anyone live without it once they've used it?
Give it to Luke and any other Jedi to try and advertise "Use the Force Luke" etc.
Apple now find way to let everyone know your have the latest gadget. Like in iPhone 5s (Gold, Space Gray), home button change. Dual flash.
I read a lot of Star Wars novels (what was the EU), and the Jedi & Sith abilities are often described as 'Force-something, so the Force Touch feature always brings the Jedi to mind for me 
As long as a future version of
technology doesn't come with Force Lightning, everything's cool.
As long as a future version of
technology doesn't come with Force Lightning, everything's cool.
I'm a developer and I use the long press gesture in my maps app for single-touch zooming and panning, which is often a lot quicker and easier than the traditional pinching approach. It only requires one touch of one finger instead of several multi-finger manoeuvres.
Basically you press and hold and the screen zooms out. When it gets to the scale you want then you move your finger and position it over the area that you want to pan to. You let go and it zooms into that area. If you move to the edge of the screen then it automatically pans.
A picture is worth a thousand words so hopefully this animated GIF shows it better:
![Gesture.gif]( "Gesture.gif")
It is also useful to quickly see where you are on a map, which is often not obvious. You just press and hold and it zooms out until you can see where you are. Then you let go and it zooms back in to where you were looking before.
It is not designed to replace the traditional pinching approach but to supplement it, especially when you wish to end up at the same scale as you started, or if the screen is too small for pinching. I tend to use a combination of both methods when panning to the area I want.
It's not just useful for maps as it would help in any app that shows a large document on a small screen (PDF viewer, image editing, large webpages etc).
I am in the process of patenting the gesture (it's been in the system for years!) so I would be very happy if Apple wanted to use it with force touch, but I suspect that it will be used for context menus like on the watch.
Basically you press and hold and the screen zooms out. When it gets to the scale you want then you move your finger and position it over the area that you want to pan to. You let go and it zooms into that area. If you move to the edge of the screen then it automatically pans.
A picture is worth a thousand words so hopefully this animated GIF shows it better:
It is also useful to quickly see where you are on a map, which is often not obvious. You just press and hold and it zooms out until you can see where you are. Then you let go and it zooms back in to where you were looking before.
It is not designed to replace the traditional pinching approach but to supplement it, especially when you wish to end up at the same scale as you started, or if the screen is too small for pinching. I tend to use a combination of both methods when panning to the area I want.
It's not just useful for maps as it would help in any app that shows a large document on a small screen (PDF viewer, image editing, large webpages etc).
I am in the process of patenting the gesture (it's been in the system for years!) so I would be very happy if Apple wanted to use it with force touch, but I suspect that it will be used for context menus like on the watch.
Well, the 5S is 2x faster than the 5, and the 6 was 25% faster. Hopefully the 6S will make at least the jump the 6 did in speed.
Plus, things like Touch ID will be new to me.
As an iPhone 6 Plus owner, it constantly astounds me that this thing doesn't have 2gb of ram already. For all the areas in which the 6 Plus excels, this is one point that should be straight up embarrassing for Apple. This is supposed to be their premiere flagship phone in the year 2015 - and you often can't even copy and paste from one page to another with out a page reload? Such a fail.
Sounds like super-usefull for drawing apps, painting apps, brushes in photo retouche etc
Coincidence has it, there usually comes a new iOS together with a new iPhone. So I could imagine them implementing tons of features were the new feature makes sense.
On a sidenote, I've also been missing broader support for long taps. There are so many cases were I tried and hoped it would work, but it never did.
Drawing and painting apps on an iPhone? LOL
No serious artist would draw on the iPhone, now on the iPad that's a different story
I love it! Samsung has made a comeback and the haters are in full force. Samsung has listened to the haters and as a result we have the S6/S6 Edge. Without the haters the S6 would not be what it is today.
So keep it up haters. It's all good.
Yep, all those who hate the fact Samsung got rid of removeable battery, micro-SD and water resistance just to appease the tech pundit crowd who were demanding a non-plastic phone.
Those rumors will be later in the week....although normally Apple doesn't touch form factor till the next non S update (so it'd be a true long shot hoping for a 4 inch 6s).
As a happy 6 user, I hope Apple brings a 4 inch version back for the folks that want that form factor (I'd actually be tempted by it), but the earliest I'd expect that would be the 7 and that in itself would be a long shot (Apple has this, sometimes infuriating, consistent habit of moving on and never looking back at things they did previously) as well.
And your opinion is probably based on not knowing anything of how the technology works.
iPhone 6s owner marches up to genius bar with bent phone and demands free replacement: "I was only giving it a hard press"