Hi, for those of you who've actually tried the watch in person -- does the crown actually rotate, or is it just touch-sensitive and immobile?
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It does 'rubber band' at the end of a list. Is it real (mechanical feedback) or is it something like Forced Touch and a simulated sensation?
When you hit the bottom of a list, it triggers a light haptic feedback to simulate that feeling.
That is what I thought but boy does it feel REAL.
Force Touch/Haptic Feedback is going to be a real treat when it comes over to the iPhone/iPad.
That is what I thought but boy does it feel REAL.
Force Touch/Haptic Feedback is going to be a real treat when it comes over to the iPhone/iPad.
I agree; I don't know if you had the chance to use the new MacBook trackpad, but it is amazing.
When you are clicking on a spot responsive to force, every time you hit a force level, it "clicks". So you can get 5 "clicks" out of a single press on a forward button in QT. I knew it was pressure sensitive, but the way they've crafted the components together is something unreal.
It feels like a real crown on a luxury watch. If you turn it with enough force you feel resistance.
The best part is that the trackpad is fixed and doesn't actually "move" at all for any of those clicks. One less moving part.
(However, it does flex very, very slightly. That's how the pressure sensor works, it detects microscopic levels of flex in the metal.)
Not really. Turn the laptop off all the way and you'll see, it flexes very little. In reality, the measurements are nanometer scale and very sensitive. Even though the metal may allow a noticeable amount of flexing, it's not required to use anywhere near that much force for the detection to occur.