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Apple to Add Force Touch and Pink Color Option to Next iPhones, Screen Size to Stay the Same
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You beat me to it! I don't know of I'd buy gold or not, but the new MacBook confirms my view that gold looks a lot better with black than with white.
(Plus white reflects so much ambient light that it makes the screen seem dimmer.)
According to several reviews, it's hard to tell the difference with the taptic engine compared to the mechanical button, and you get the benefit of being able to click anywhere on the trackpad. The configurability is still there, with the force tap as an added gesture.
well done. But please dont do this apple. My wife is already asking me for the damn watch. I cant afford both a pink phone and a pink watch.
Pass. For two reasons:
- There's no way I'm upgrading from my iPhone 6 Plus just for force touch and a pink option.
- I upgrade every two years, and my iPhone 6 Plus will only be a year old.
Random guesses are the best. Make enough of them and some of them will come true, then people will think you have some sort of slight credibility.
It's silly guesses like this that make all the people come to the forums and complain and cry after every Keynote because "they didn't announce that thing that someone guessed they would!"
It's silly guesses like this that make all the people come to the forums and complain and cry after every Keynote because "they didn't announce that thing that someone guessed they would!"
For those of us who aren't interested in the Apple watch right now, what is the benefit of force touch? I am not seeing much there.
But what does Force Touch actually do? I mean, speeding up a movie's scrub speed? I'm not sure that sounds like a good design solution.
So is it a contextual interaction that changes depending on where your cursor is? Just doesn't seem right; we already have right clicks or two finger taps dedicated to contextual menus, so what's the new context? If it doesn't bring up a menu and it does different things all the time, then how do I ever know what it's going to do? Just keep trying it everywhere to find out?
Mumble mumble mumble, something about discoverability, and now you point me to an article that explains all this for me. Thanks in advance.
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Oh come ON. They're citing the Wall Street Journal. If they didn't pass this rumor on they couldn't call themselves a rumor site.
So is it a contextual interaction that changes depending on where your cursor is? Just doesn't seem right; we already have right clicks or two finger taps dedicated to contextual menus, so what's the new context? If it doesn't bring up a menu and it does different things all the time, then how do I ever know what it's going to do? Just keep trying it everywhere to find out?
Mumble mumble mumble, something about discoverability, and now you point me to an article that explains all this for me. Thanks in advance.
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Oh come ON. They're citing the Wall Street Journal. If they didn't pass this rumor on they couldn't call themselves a rumor site.
Rose gold color? Or actual Rose gold?
Show me the $20k iPhone~ That makes way more sense as a status symbol than a $10k Apple Watch.
$100k with diamond encrusted volume and power button. Platinum, Gold, Rose Gold. 2015 units per color limited edition. Sapphire front glass (GT Advance yield problem no longer an issue). Let it go with 3 years warranty in case they shatter that Sapphire glass like no tomorrow.
Apple should also do a luxury sub-brand to differentiate ppl dropping 5 figures and above with us poor souls buying their cheap mass market stuff. Can be aspiration piece.
Apple should so hire me as their luxury marketing consultant. The current Apple watch is hideous as a luxury fashion piece even coming from a die hard Apple fan here.
Show me the $20k iPhone~ That makes way more sense as a status symbol than a $10k Apple Watch.
$100k with diamond encrusted volume and power button. Platinum, Gold, Rose Gold. 2015 units per color limited edition. Sapphire front glass (GT Advance yield problem no longer an issue). Let it go with 3 years warranty in case they shatter that Sapphire glass like no tomorrow.
Apple should also do a luxury sub-brand to differentiate ppl dropping 5 figures and above with us poor souls buying their cheap mass market stuff. Can be aspiration piece.
Apple should so hire me as their luxury marketing consultant. The current Apple watch is hideous as a luxury fashion piece even coming from a die hard Apple fan here.
Same here. TouchID is 100% reliable on iPhone 6 Plus (never tried a 5S).
Maybe "improvement" could mean truly INSTANT detection rather than 1/10 second or whatever it is. I'd feel that difference and appreciate it.
Noooooo! I really can't afford to buy another iPhone for my wife this year. But if they bring out a pink one I can almost guarantee I would have too.
Touch ID works flawlessly for me (iPhone 6)
If improvements are possible, nobody is stopping them
It depends how iOS and apps are enhanced to take advantage of it.
Drawing and painting programs could obviously benefit. When you press hard using a pencil or paintbrush tool, you make a darker line. F
or selecting text, a hard press followed by a drag could select multiple words. Currently you have to lift your finger and try to grab one of the handles to extend your selection. For me, that means as often as not I unselect the word I already had.
Hard press on an app icon, and it could take you to the settings for that app, or take you to the page to open a document using the app, or pop up a "glance" of the most likely thing you'd be opening the app for.
I will be incredibly disappointed if they don't offer a 5-series size this time. I don't want a bigger phone. It's fine if others do, and happy they have the option*, but I don't.
Force Touch will be an amazing addition to the iPhone though, and open up a lot of new possibilities for app ideas and app features.
* (happy in abstract, though as a developer the 6/6+ are a pain to support)
Force Touch will be an amazing addition to the iPhone though, and open up a lot of new possibilities for app ideas and app features.
* (happy in abstract, though as a developer the 6/6+ are a pain to support)