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

joueboy said:
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.
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Peek is just a gesture. Developers can easily prefetch peek information so the display is quick. There's not necessarily a need to wait until the gesture occurs to perform a service request. As a developer, 3D Touch is a huge feature. We have a whole new interaction paradigm that will completely change how apps are designed going forward. It will greatly distinguish iOS apps from Android over the next couple years.
 
coolfactor said:
I watched the demo of the jailbreak version of this feature, and it seems that it was an upward swipe that triggered 3D Touch, not a long or harder press. I was confused by that.
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Uh.
Not so intuitive. ね？
But to some extent, this is not a bad idea.
 
riffola said:
I played with this last night. Check out the custom ultra low profile Lightning Connector that Apple has made for this 3D Touch Demo table.
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Ah, so I was kinda right...this is similar to how the iPads were charged inside of the old Smart Signs. Pretty cool! Thanks or sharing!
 
I consider 3D touch more a gimmick then anything.

I went from an iPhone 6+ to a iPhone 6S+ and besides the finger print reader being a hell of a lot faster the rest of the phone felt like my old iPhone 6+.

I tried using the 3D touch but really didn't get it and wasn't impressed it.

I tried the live photos and wasn't impressed it felt like another gimmick.

I tried 4K video and it took forever to upload a 2 minute clip to Youtube.

For photos the pictures do not seem any better that the 6+ was.

So I returned my 6S+ on Friday and went back to my 6+ and am happy and have $900 more in my pocket.

Now with the jailbreak you can have 3D touch and Live Photos. Not sure why Apple is limiting these features on older phones since they actually work fine.

Now I sit and wait for the iPhone 7 and see what new things we get in that one. :D
 
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uid15 said:
...Then again, it's kinda hard to do that without coming off as crass and "Samsung-esque" I supposed (Apple will silently add water-resistance, whilst Samschmuck SHOUT IT FROM THE ROOFTOPS AS A "FEATURE")
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I take it you've never seen an iPhone launch event?
 
uid15 said:
They could have saved themselves the bother of water on a giant screen, and just had REAL water in a shallow translucent tray, under-lit. Wow, talk about over-engineered.
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I can't tell if that's sarcasm or not. If not... the purpose is to showcase the force touch technology and thus sell more iPhone 6S's. Not simply to have a 'cool' video display.
 
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scottct1 said:
I consider 3D touch more a gimmick then anything.

I went from an iPhone 6+ to a iPhone 6S+ and besides the finger print reader being a hell of a lot faster the rest of the phone felt like my old iPhone 6+.

I tried using the 3D touch but really didn't get it and wasn't impressed it.

I tried the live photos and wasn't impressed it felt like another gimmick.

I tried 4K video and it took forever to upload a 2 minute clip to Youtube.

For photos the pictures do not seem any better that the 6+ was.

So I returned my 6S+ on Friday and went back to my 6+ and am happy and have $900 more in my pocket.

Now with the jailbreak you can have 3D touch and Live Photos. Not sure why Apple is limiting these features on older phones since they actually work fine.

Now I sit and wait for the iPhone 7 and see what new things we get in that one. :D
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TBH I'm always baffled by the mentality of 'must buy a new phone each year' consumers. They obviously have a lot more money than I do! Personally I get the longest contract available in the UK (2 years) and then upgrade at the end of each contract so the cost pretty much stays the same throughout. I usually actually make a small amount net as I then sell the old phone.

There's no other technology in the world where you would buy a new version each year, especially when they cost so much. I mean, you wouldn't dream of doing it with a TV would you? Inevitably there are never going to be HUGE improvements between annual upgrades. Faster, better camera and a few extra features (some of which would be considered gimmicks, ie live pictures). For me, upgrading from the 5s to 6s, the biggest new feature that i've been crying out for is the 5mb front facing camera. Finally I can take group selfies that don't look like they were taken on a 1.2mb potato!
 
At first I thought it was a neat little gimmick but after watching it a second time there doesn't seem to be much going on. When you poke it the fish swims off the phone screen and into nothingness. They should appear on the table screen. And instead of swimming back onto the screen they fade in.
 
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wyarp said:
TBH I'm always baffled by the mentality of 'must buy a new phone each year' consumers. They obviously have a lot more money than I do! Personally I get the longest contract available in the UK (2 years) and then upgrade at the end of each contract so the cost pretty much stays the same throughout. I usually actually make a small amount net as I then sell the old phone.

There's no other technology in the world where you would buy a new version each year, especially when they cost so much. I mean, you wouldn't dream of doing it with a TV would you? Inevitably there are never going to be HUGE improvements between annual upgrades. Faster, better camera and a few extra features (some of which would be considered gimmicks, ie live pictures). For me, upgrading from the 5s to 6s, the biggest new feature that i've been crying out for is the 5mb front facing camera. Finally I can take group selfies that don't look like they were taken on a 1.2mb potato!
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How many megapixels of storage does your iPhone have?

;)

You mention the money that you assume others have, and yet you forget, possibly, that many people do such silly things as going to the pub and squandering their earnings on pale brown liquid that turns them into gibbering idiots - that's got to cost them a few hundred or thousand a year, in many cases. At least the iPhone is an investment, as a non consumable item. People also go to overpriced (in my view), restaurants, but then who are any of us to judge any other on how they choose to allocate their earnings? Spending them on a substantial and useful, tangible product which gets daily use, is a far better investment than the former, in my humble opinion.
 
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maxsix said:
Apple has always played up gimmicks.

The two words repeated many times over when Steve Jobs presented the original iPad...

It's "Magical & Revolutionary"
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It's "magical" and "revolutionary" no matter how much it cost...they still get it.
 
uid15 said:
An opportunity, I feel, may have been missed by not having used REAL WATER: The opportunity to show how the iPhone 6S can withstand splashes and the odd dunk into water. Then again, it's kinda hard to do that without coming off as crass and "Samsung-esque" I supposed (Apple will silently add water-resistance, whilst Samschmuck SHOUT IT FROM THE ROOFTOPS AS A "FEATURE")
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Erm...you do realise that the 6S can NOT withstand "the odd dunk into water"...?
Well unless you dunk it in so fast that the water due to it's surface tension...ah never mind...the 6S does not cope well with water. Plus considering the amount of time apple spends on a couple of millimeters thinner waistline of a new device, do you seriously consider they would introduce a gamechanger like waterproofness silently? You can not seriously think they are that dumb. Lastly, while some samsung phones are waterproof, the company that is realy touting that feature (which it actualy is, unless one is dead set to deny any useability to a product aspect that is not present in the competing apple product) is Sony...and being the one company that manages to build "normal" (as in not caterpilar like tough phones) smartphones that rate ip68 (!) they rightfully do so...
I guess what I was realy trying to say is that it may be a good idea to save your hate spilling to areas in which you have some knowledge...which in turn would not make us normal tech fans with a great appreciation of apple products seem like brainless marketing drones...thanks in advance...
 
D-Dave said:
Erm...you do realise that the 6S can NOT withstand "the odd dunk into water"...?
Well unless you dunk it in so fast that the water due to it's surface tension...ah never mind...the 6S does not cope well with water. Plus considering the amount of time apple spends on a couple of millimeters thinner waistline of a new device, do you seriously consider they would introduce a gamechanger like waterproofness silently? You can not seriously think they are that dumb. Lastly, while some samsung phones are waterproof, the company that is realy touting that feature (which it actualy is, unless one is dead set to deny any useability to a product aspect that is not present in the competing apple product) is Sony...and being the one company that manages to build "normal" (as in not caterpilar like tough phones) smartphones that rate ip68 (!) they rightfully do so...
I guess what I was realy trying to say is that it may be a good idea to save your hate spilling to areas in which you have some knowledge...which in turn would not make us normal tech fans with a great appreciation of apple products seem like brainless marketing drones...thanks in advance...
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Your confident, mocking tone mean nothing - have a read and a watch, and then tell the experts they're wrong:

http://www.engadget.com/2015/10/02/iphone-6s-waterproof/

You're also talking to a fully qualified electronics repair and production engineer; I kinda know what I'm talking about (usually, anway).
 
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