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Alto's Adventure Among the First iOS Games to Support Haptic Feedback
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No it did not as there is no replacement as good as the jack today.
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Now that would be true innovation
. Should've made it slightly thicker to increase battery life. Add wireless charging and you get the the best phone ever. One worth buying that fanboys wouldn't have to apologize for.im also curious given the 6s introduces the Taptic Engine. I haven't seen why it's been excluded from using the Haptic APIs. I can only assume the engine in the 6s isn't battery efficient or something so they reserved it for less common functions, where in the 7 it seems like there are far more trigger points.
I can't think of too many other reasons to exclude it, even if it ran at a lower precision.
No kidding. That would be my perfect phone (for 2016/2017).No it did not as there is no replacement as good as the jack today.
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Nonsense, it is vibration and certainly not indistinguishable from a real click. You can feel the mechanical click of a button or trackpad as the material has a slight friction and the act of pressing creates a distance (as you actually have to move your finger further). On a trackpad, haptic feedback can certainly convey the same feedback to you, but the feeling is different. To me, a centralised vibration can never be as satisfactory as a mechanical click. It is just not possible.
I admit that the ‘Taptic Engine’ is a sophisticated piece of technology that can produce much more fine-grained vibrations. The Apple Watch can use these vibrations to give you unique feedback when your screen is not on, which either matches or trumps the feedback that a screen would provide. This is a tangible enhancement. But on a touch screen, a centralised vibration – with which I mean that the entire phone vibrates, not a very specific area that matches the location you are touching – can never match the localised feedback you get when you press on a virtual button and see how the OS responds, for instance, by darkening the button or animating it to look like it is pressed. 3D Touch does not give you this specific feedback, as the device as a whole vibrates to acknowledge what you can already see with your eyes, much better even. It is far too abstract to provide a satisfactory experience on its own and that is why I find it not something worth caring about on either an iPhone or a Mac. It is just nice to have it, but nothing more than that.
Ummm nearly every racing or flying game uses it?
Anyway, Alto's Adventure is an excellently crafted game IMO.
The N64 offered an add on rumble pack and pretty much ever since controllers have given vibration as feedback. It hasn't really been used in a phone until now but eventually this will just be a feature we expect in all our apps. It's another layer of immersion, so yes, you will notice a difference
That is exactly what people said when they introduced Wi-fi or when they removed the DVD drive. The arguments are all the same.
Yes, currently, there is no replacement as good. I understand that. But if we have the headphone jack in it, there is no drive for headphone and audio manufacturers to invest in wireless standards. They're going to keep making the same headphones with 3.5mm jacks, and each year old focus on audio and nothing else.
The headphone jack is stifling innovation. It's as simple as that. That port is ugly, old, a hassle, as all wires are, and it must die. I'm actually hoping they kill it on the next Macbook Pro too to really follow their convictions.
You could have LTE + bigger battery to accommodate always on screen instead. Apple made a gimmicky feature, even Apple accepts it because deep press is pretty much gone from the watch OS 3 interface.
Só its news that an old game is now using technology that was on the iPhone a year ago? I love the game and mildly enjoy the improvement but the fact that this is news at all looks like people are reaching to find something to write about - and my bored self seems to be doing it as well.
Removing the headphone jack is repressive but we get it. Apple can't continue to increase phone sales year after year so they will increase their sales of dongles, headphones, etc. good for them and sucks for SOME of us - but as they calculated not enough to leAve the ecosystem.
I really am struggling to enjoy this new phone. I wish more programs would utilize whatever advancements this phone is supposed to offer over my six plus. I will enjoy 256 worth of storage though.
.Removing the headphone jack is repressive but we get it. Apple can't continue to increase phone sales year after year so they will increase their sales of dongles, headphones, etc. good for them and sucks for SOME of us - but as they calculated not enough to leAve the ecosystem.
I really am struggling to enjoy this new phone. I wish more programs would utilize whatever advancements this phone is supposed to offer over my six plus. I will enjoy 256 worth of storage though.
You obviously have not tried it out. It is markedly different from a vibrating motor. The best example is to go to a date selector and rotate through the dates on the wheel and you feel it notch round. This is far more realistic than getting a little buzz from a standard vibrating motor.
Many phones use a tiny electric motor rotating an eccentric mass, just like a clothes washing machine spinning an off-balance load. The frequency (rate of rotation) can change, but it is difficult to control the amplitude because the mass (washing machine load) stays the same.
A linear actuator is also a magnetic motor, but instead of rotating a mass, it oscillates a mass back and forth. Here's an X-ray video of the iPhone 7 actuator in action.
As it's a mass attached to a spring on each side, it has a natural resonant frequency where it works the best, which is usually about 175 Hz for haptic actuators.
But while the frequency can't be changed, the amplitude (how far it swings back and forth... like the volume of an audio waveform) can, which is considered an advantage for creating various haptic feedback sensations.
Because linear actuators can do better haptics than rotating actuators, companies like Nokia, LG and Samsung switched to them around 2012. Apple finally switched from eccentric mass to linear actuators with the 2014 iPhone 6.
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For examples of the effects possible, this blog article from 2012 mentions some of the things an S3 owner could set up and feel:
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That last line is important, because Immersion has many base patents on haptics. Samsung Electronics has had a license with them for a long time. In fact, they were the very first Immersion cell phone client back in 2004. They've used the technology in phones, CD players, etc.
When Apple later brought out their own haptics library, they were sued by Immersion. See these articles here in MacRumors:
Immersion files patent infringement lawsuit against Apple
Immersion files second lawsuit
To be able to (legally) do some of the better effects, it's quite possible that Apple will have to join everyone else in licensing Immersions's patents. The question of whether or not these patents should've been granted in the first place, is another topic.
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Horrible if that is the case. People buy a phone that has features that is obselete in a year? FAIL!
Don't get TOO worked up! =)
Think of it like this: the 2nd gen TouchID is awesome, yeah?!
But.... 1st gen is by NO means "obsolete". That would be silly to even say.
One just works recognizably different & better; though you could still probably say subtly better.
Same thing here. If you get a message w/ the new fireworks animation... your phone vibrates. Cool.
But the way it does on the iPhone 7, it really feels like you can feel the explosions. Crazy.
Iteratively better (as we should expect tech to get), NOT obsolescence of previous tech though.
I actually played around on my mate's 7. It's actually very nice and subtle. Especially how it's being implemented for things like pulling down notifications etc. I still don't see why Apple can't open the API for the 6S Taptic Engine, but maybe it's a battery thing... Given all the reports of terrible battery performance on the 7 though, I suspect this is due to the fact the thing is vibrating each time that new virtual home button is clicked! I'm very happy to stick with my 6S in any case...