Flagship Apple Stores Outfitted With Interactive Tables to Highlight 3D Touch

[japanime]

Reminds me of the ripple effect that resulted from adding a dashboard widget in earlier versions of OSX.

 

[uid15]

Reminds me of the ripple effect that resulted from adding a dashboard widget in earlier versions of OSX.

I loved that effect

 

[SchneiderMan]

Weak presentation of Force Touch.

 

[RockSpider]

Are these Microsoft Surface tables?

I think they actually do computing like things, not scare fish to swim away from you, what a ridiculous wate of money, nice for little kids though.

 

[uid15]

Weak presentation of Force Touch.

Which you haven't even seen in person.

 

[ke-iron]

Which Apple Store in NY has this? The article said flagship store but this doesn't look like the 5th ave store. I just took a second look at the video and it looks like the soho store. But that isn't the flagship store anymore since the 5th one have have been built.

 

[Cmd-Z]

How long 'till Samsung has one, but with a wrap-around edge.

 

[FloatingBones]

If it were in the Cambridge, MA store, MIT geeks would try to create an interference wave pattern with dueling iPhones.

 

[RockSpider]

WOW, talk about a great way to sell the iPhone 6s....no fair I want to try it.

Why would you want to scare those poor little Siamese Fighting fish.

 

[iapplelove]

I dunno I fail to see the coolness of the whole idea

 

[JXShine]

Can't wait to hear people complain that the table has only 16GB of storage.

and a 5400rpm HDD.

 

[Kaibelf]

The ONLY action that these demo units can show is force touch against a fish background? So you'll need to walk over to the iPhone display table to actually try the feature in real world usage...seems a bit redundant. Is it cool, interesting, different, Apple? Of course. Love things like this...but if they're not functional units where you can see 3D Touch in action, other than seemingly pressing on a picture of a fish in water, wouldn't that confuse people than do more good? We know how silly people can be who walk into retail stores...hence the removal of Smart Signs, as 75% of people couldn't understand why the iPad in front of the iPhone didn't have a 'working home button'...lol.

Well, you're welcome to decorate your chain of stores in a way that you feel is superior, Your Eminence.

 

[Glassed Silver]

I think they do it with silvered glass

ba-dum-tshhh

Glassed Silver:mac

 

[projectle]

I'm jealous, these iPhone 6s do have some kind if wireless charging technology embedded since the iPhones are glued up on top of a pad.

Nope, there's a small Lightning Ribbon Cable inserted into the phones.

 

[mazz0]

This seems unusually pointless and gimmicky for Apple

 

[pat500000]

I think this ripple effect force touch is brainwashing people to go buy their phones and macs.

 

[FieldingMellish]

I saw this technology. A company in NY had rigged similar to project on a floor. It was fish swimming over a rock bed. You could walk across it and the water would ripple and fish scatter away from where you stepped.

 

[kds1]

Which Apple Store in NY has this? The article said flagship store but this doesn't look like the 5th ave store. I just took a second look at the video and it looks like the soho store. But that isn't the flagship store anymore since the 5th one have have been built.

It's the SoHo store.

 

[joueboy]

I have a mixed feeling about 3D Touch functionality and gimmicky. With that table I now conclude it's more of a gimmick. I do hope this will turn around and open up a possibility of more enhance the user experience. Peek is not quite there yet basically no matter how fast is your internet it's still take time to load and the preview is almost covered by your entire thumb. For now the sort of right click to open or launch an app which I always forgot that I have that functionality in my phone. Other than that it's nice to have just like an Android to show up your friends but hardly use it. For now I'll wait and hoping for the future and will see what are developers can do to take advantage of the technology.

 

[Klae17]

The ONLY action that these demo units can show is force touch against a fish background? So you'll need to walk over to the iPhone display table to actually try the feature in real world usage...seems a bit redundant. Is it cool, interesting, different, Apple? Of course. Love things like this...but if they're not functional units where you can see 3D Touch in action, other than seemingly pressing on a picture of a fish in water, wouldn't that confuse people than do more good? We know how silly people can be who walk into retail stores...hence the removal of Smart Signs, as 75% of people couldn't understand why the iPad in front of the iPhone didn't have a 'working home button'...lol.

Is it that difficult to just enjoy something for what it is? Yes, walk over to the other table. Done.

 

[Junipr]

Still think "Force Touch" just sounds wrong

 

[John.B]

So the only thing it does it wiggle the fish and ripple the water? I would have hoped that they would allow full access to the features of the phones, and show the rippling when 3D Touch is used in normal iOS operation.

It's the old Koi Pond app!

 

[MacConvert07]

Is it just me or have most of us not used 3D Touch all that much since getting an iPhone 6s? I simply haven't remembered it that much as a feature. I mean I want to. And I like it when I use it. It's just not so compelling the I remember. Know what I mean?

 

[uid15]

Still think "Force Touch" just sounds wrong

You only think that because the media brought the possible negative tone of it to your attention. Unless the media had brainwashed you, you'd never have noticed.

 

[Junipr]

You only think that because the media brought the possible negative tone of it to your attention. Unless the media had brainwashed you, you'd never have noticed.

Of course, how could "force touch" mean anything but something positive, right? I must be brainwashed! Wake up, me!