The Home Button is used for Touch ID. How would they go about removing that?
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Force Touch on iPhone 6s to Make iPhone Interactions Faster With Focus on 'Shortcuts'
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I never mentioned the watch once in my comment. However, I do like FT in the watch. Muscle memory kicks in and after a day or so of use I can easily differentiate a tap and a press. Also, it does give tactile feedback when pressed. The size of the phone makes it perfect for certain functions, and perfect for others on a watch. Example: FT on a watch is better suited for contextual menus that have no other good methods to bring up because the screen is tiny. FT on a phone will be good for tactile keys, actual buttons (even though they are really virtual), etc. The trackpad is a big glass surface, and so is the phone. The point here is that Apple is making steps into a 3rd dimension of interaction. Imagine if your phone could be a tiny drawing tablet, a blackberry keyboard but with virtual keys, etc. The single biggest advantage will be Braille on an iPhone. The blind will be able to navigate with ease. That's a game changer.
Why couldn't someone that buys this year's iPhone also buy next year's?
Integrate it into the screen.
Clearly neither of you have ever gotten your hands on a working Apple Watch or newest MacBook/MacBook Pros...
Something old, I'm afraid. Apple copied it first:
http://www.synaptics.com/en/forcepad.php
HP have been using it for about 12months already.
Sorry, but i have to say that this is not an force touch issue....in this case the user is the issue.....
Ok, if you have this problem, lets say the first 10 times......but seriously, then you should get it and it should not be an issue anymore......
Im happy I havent upgraded from my 5 yet. I was going to get the 6+ last month, but if Im going to buy a phone full retail (live in Europe), I told myself I might as well wait for the S to come out. Force touch, more ram, and just an overall more powerful phone is worth the wait.
Class, and the signature too. Fantastic!!
They could....however, why would you want to change the functionality of the phone completely? If the home button disappeared, and it got replaced with a long press, and to bring up other options (like force quit and multitasking) was replaced by holding the power button, it would make the iPhone more difficult to use and people that have used the iPhone for years, will even have trouble adapting to such a thing. It would be a terrible design flaw.
Also, if you were to replace the home button with force touch, you would be able to still close out of an app that freezes the same way you do now, because force touch is also hardware, will be able to override the software.
You say this, but my point is that I apparently have this added feature but have never noticed it. The computer has never prompted my about it, the instruction manual that came with the Mac didn't explain it to me...
It's pointless adding a new 'feature' if the user has no idea it exists.
It is.
A basic example would be an accelerator control on a driving game. Currently it's just on or off, but force touch would allow gradual control, more like a real accelerator pedal.
That's cool, I didn't realise Force Touch could be quantitative; that does make it more interesting than 'long touch'.
I don't own a watch or MBPro, so I don't yet have a feeling for how this works.
I like that force touch is promoted by a company that for a long time thought right-clicking was too confusing for its customers.