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Force Touch on iPhone 6s to Make iPhone Interactions Faster With Focus on 'Shortcuts'
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Hmm...I wasn't aware people found the home button confusing. Perhaps we need to give people a bit more credit. I don't consider myself a "techie" yet I was able to figure out how to use my Watch in less than 5 minutes. I use the watch every day and rarely if ever am I scratching my head wondering how to do something.
So was long press lazy on Apple's part too? How many developers have incorporated that? Why can't we wait to see what's announced before people start pissing all over it?
People said the same thing about Touch ID. Some people (like me) couldn't imagine not having it now and some people disabled it. It's often hard to tell how great a feature is until you live with it for a while.
When the first iPhone came out, I said nobody will ever want a phone in the keyboard, how are you supposed to use it when it rains?
When Touch ID was introduced, I said nobody will ever want that, what's wrong with typing in a PIN code?
Now Force Touch is coming and I think nobody is going to be excited by that, so you better buy the Apple stock in preparation for record-breaking sales
When Touch ID was introduced, I said nobody will ever want that, what's wrong with typing in a PIN code?
Now Force Touch is coming and I think nobody is going to be excited by that, so you better buy the Apple stock in preparation for record-breaking sales
I can't wait till someone creates a tweak that does 99% of the Force Touch interface through long press.
I'm not sure if anyone else mentioned this, but there is probably more that you can do with Force Touch than just pressing. Think Force Gestures. Swiping with some extra pressure to do certain things. If they don't add that this year they may in the iOSX (or whatever it will be called) API.
I have a feeling that Force Touch will be written out more often than Face Time when providing directions on the forums and elsewhere, so the FT shorthand for Force Touch will probably take over in popularity. You tap a button or you FT a button, etc. I Face Time only a few times per month, but I can see myself Force Touching things many times per day. I imagine usage will be similar for other users.
Context clues? Most people understand.
I have a feeling that Force Touch will be written out more often than Face Time when providing directions on the forums and elsewhere, so the FT shorthand for Force Touch will probably take over in popularity. You tap a button or you FT a button, etc. I Face Time only a few times per month, but I can see myself Force Touching things many times per day. I imagine usage will be similar for other users.
i don't mind convenience of bringing Force Touch to an OS, but lets make this universal across everything huh ?
Not just optionally allow developers if they wish to support it with these hardware devices... because not ever app or desktop app is force-touchable, how is that good ?
end result: u have to know which app is and which isn't, or will never be.
Not just optionally allow developers if they wish to support it with these hardware devices... because not ever app or desktop app is force-touchable, how is that good ?
end result: u have to know which app is and which isn't, or will never be.
Not everything that buy has to be a need. People can also buy things that they want.
Again, wants. And there are tangible updates in each iteration of the iPhone. Siri, Touch ID, and better cameras are all very tangible benefits to upgrading. If someone wants to upgrade every year, it's their prerogative. If they can afford it, then it's not really a poor choice.
No. It's how hard you press, not how long you press. You can use long press today in iOS. With force touch you can tap something for a short duration of time but hard and that would be different than a long duration of time but short. In musical terms, Force Touch can allow for Forte Staccato (hard and short)
Sorry, I meant the TRACK PAD, not keyboard. But as an aside, I really like the keyboard on the 12" rMB as well as the tack pad! Lots of folks do. Milage may vary. I can't imagine typing full time on a cherry switch keyboard, but I do have a cherry red Ducky keyboard for my gaming rig. To each their own.
I personally found the iPhone 6 to be the biggest leap forward besides the introduction of the original iPhone of course. I'm not talking about any iOS features here. Force Touch all alone or combined with some rumored minor changes in the devices thickness for me seems an ideal generation to be skipped.
EDIT: I still don't feel convenient in using Force Touch at all. Something keeps telling me to not push that trackpad so heaviliy. I guess it'll get worse once using an iPhone
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I agree, I think you will see it more utilized as time goes on. Most of my friends who have macs don't know 1/3 of the gestures OSX offers and that indeed is an unfortunate waste. But then again OSX does 10x the average user is aware they can do.
This. Forcing a new OS versions on users every year is one thing. But adding, on top of it, a new principle of how you interact with your device could be (too) hard to muster for a lot of users in the real world (i.e. outside the MR zoo
)I hope FT can be disabled w/o crippling the phone beyond the capabilities currently offered by iOS 8.
Which is not the same as force touch. If you used the force touch on the AppleWatch or on the trackpad on the 2015 MacBook Pro you would understand and feel the difference. It is not how long you press but how light or how hard you press which can do different actions.
EDIT: If you "don't know what is the difference between long press and force touch!" then why would you even comment like you understand what force touch is or what it does. Do some research and learn something new.
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Do you even know what force touch is or are you simply assuming that long press is the same as force touch?
Yes let's not let facts get in the way, like Apple filing for the force touch patent back in 2009: http://www.tapscape.com/apple-issued-trackpad-patent/.
So you think your financial sensibilities applies to everyone else? Hint, no it does not. Therefore, your guarantee only means that it applies to you.
Long touch is completely non-intuitive. What else in the world works like that*? In contrast, most physical things respond MORE the harder you push-- if used appropriately, it's much more intuitive.
*Yes, there is one thing that works that way-- sexual molestation. A long touch provides more molestation per unit of force than a short one. So, if you are a sexual molester, long touch will be more intuitive to you.
