No idea why anyone has ever felt the need to use a screen protector - cases, sure, thats a matter of choice, but there's never been a genuine reason to cover your screen is with a screen protector - this stuff doesn't scratch easily AT ALL - i've had every iPhone since the very first and not a single one as scratched (and i've never used a case on any of them either) and I don't treat them with respect what so ever (i've dropped them face down on concrete/roads many times). Apple work hard to get the feeling of touching the glass just right and then people go and put those ill filling screen protectors with bubbles and lines and weird feeling over the screen - I don't get it?! Even if you got a scratch it'd look better than the edge of the screen protector going around the home button, they're disgustingly ugly.
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3D Touch in iPhone 6s is a 'Breakthrough,' Was 'Really Hard' to Make
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No idea why anyone has ever felt the need to use a screen protector - cases, sure, thats a matter of choice, but there's never been a genuine reason to cover your screen is with a screen protector - this stuff doesn't scratch easily AT ALL - i've had every iPhone since the very first and not a single one as scratched (and i've never used a case on any of them either) and I don't treat them with respect what so ever (i've dropped them face down on concrete/roads many times). Apple work hard to get the feeling of touching the glass just right and then people go and put those ill filling screen protectors with bubbles and lines and weird feeling over the screen - I don't get it?! Even if you got a scratch it'd look better than the edge of the screen protector going around the home button, they're disgustingly ugly.
All of the force touch features have already been done by Samsung differently it's known as Air View. You can preview weblinks and access other menus by hovering your finger over certain things on the screen, it works well but it's not necessary.
Just because Apple has taglined it "Force touch" doesn't make it new/unique or different from Air View
Video from very early 2013
We thought they'd never copy the finger print sensor successfully but they essentially completely copied the whole thing, even down to the screen which maps the finger print has you calibrate it!
I agreed with your post upon until the long touch ignorance. Long touch takes time, the 3d touch is instant based on your press - also long touch on icons is wiggle mode for deleting and moving.
I stand corrected. I got the info from this page and I thought it was a great addition for the 6S:
http://bgr.com/2015/09/09/iphone-6s-camera-features/
"With the iPhone 6s, Apple also, rather quietly, added optical image stabilization for videos as well as for photos."
You can't be that much of a nerd if you're still on an iPhone 5? A part-time nerd maybe?
To be fair everyone on here said Siri was just a gimmick, then Touch ID was just a gimmick, now 3D Touch is just a gimmick.
It seems to be mainly pushed by people who can't afford to upgrade so they want to convince themselves they don't need a new feature.
What you just described makes no sense at all. How is hovering your finger over something the same as pressing something with varying pressures - 3D touch? It may serve a similar purpose, but is obviously a completely different implementation. It's as if you think a trackpad is the exact same as a trackball or that a Nintendo D pad is the exact same as an Atari 2600 joystick.
Anyway, the difference here is that as powerful as Samsung is, they don't carry the entire Android ecosystem and have to support their own private features with modifications to the OS. Apple on the other hand can turn over almost their entire active ecosystem with a new feature in a couple of years which helps it become universally adopted.
I have an iPhone 5 that could do the same thing if they changed the way you move icons.
This isn't revolutionary or magical, context dropdown menus have existed for decades.
Good grief!!!! NO No no. Are you even reading what you write. How the hell is that the same?
Since its still not as accurate, so says everyone who use it, they have created a bastardization of it, not a copy.
why these functions were not implemented by proximity sensor (some distance of finger from the display) ? It would be difficult for user to have "right" distance from display or it would be many false actions as finger is detouch from display away to "right distance" ?
Did you watch the keynote, or read anything about it? 3D touch is pressure sensitive and does not activate on increased fingerprint.
It's still not the same as 3D touch
air view was limited to e-mail and photos but 3D touch gives you more and gives you a better view of what you are looking at.
I enjoyed air view on my samsung devices and was annoyed when it was removed but air view and this isn't the same.
So, playing a piano note with an attack or varying force is the same as leaving your finger on the note for X time ....
That's basically what you said.
So, no, not the same at all.
Care to revise your completely wrong assessement.
Claiming to own Apple stuff (tm), and not being not an Apple basher as a preface to well... bashing is kind of trope...
So, that made me laugh.
Right, because Apple Pencil doesn't copy anything else. About five years ago Steve said that a stylus is awful yet now Apple feels that this is needed...I guess Apple internally realized in a vacuum the need for it.
I'm not saying that Samsung (or any tech company) doesn't copy ideas, just that all tech companies do this including Apple.
For me what the highlight is the integration of hardware and software implementation that Apple has done. For this to work seamlessly without lag, this is a fundamental low level implementation in the OS. That's one of the downsides of Android, even if the hardware exists, the low level OS implementation will not exist for some time and not for all the hardware varieties. And even after it gets implemented, the user experience will not be the same.
Can you please actually quote Jobs actual words and not your fabulation of them.
Ok, is it me or is the 3D Touch is signalling the disappearing of the home button? There was a demo where they showed how to switch between apps only with 3D, I can imagine that you can exit applications as well using only 3D, the only thing is the fingerprint scanner...But I'm sure they have something in the works already for that...
Yes. Sorry for not drinking the kooalaid and having a different opinion. They could have implemented this years ago.