Haptics simulates motion. And the wheel is already “digital.” It’s not analog, after all. You are using the term completely wrong.
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Future Apple Watch to Adopt Solid State Buttons With Haptic Feedback
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New girlfriend who’s over protective seen messages come to my watch from female friend she hasn’t yet met and already prefers holding my left hand when we walk or cuddle .. the same hand my Nike+ S3 is on lol. It’s cute though.
If a player has one he’ll be doomed in a day!
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As long as you’re not in Ontario, Canada
see news article last week on front page of this site.
I know Apple did this so you, I and the world had "something" on the watch that said look, this is the "new version", but golly that little red dot is ugly.
New form factor please. Ditching physical buttons will a step in the right direction.
If I use a fingernail to press the button then it doesn't. E.g. try that on the 2015 MBP and the button press doesn't register. FAIL.
Then how could they design a button that does not move but can be used to reliably turn off or on a device? I know there are touch-based power buttons on certain appliances but that does not feel well.
In no way does Haptic simulate motion ... not one use case is it ever used for motion: not Microsoft, HTC, Apple, nobody has done this yet. It simulates reaching an end to using motion very different.
Analog is the physical motion used by the user on the crown, digital is translating it to the computing UI or bitmap which is what I was referring to.
Haptic used for alerts and reaching an end to motion: 3D Touch on Watch/Trackpad/Digital Crown reaching end of a list or scrolling region - you specifically feel this.
PS: I don’t code yet would love to read the code that states or shows Haptic is simulating motion on user interaction vs what I’m explaining my laments terms of how I’m understanding it.
If this is true I'm not sure what I think.
Long story short, I swim and the screen is hard to use when wet. If the buttons use the same capacitive tech, it'll make the watch even more inaccessible when in the water.
I keep praying that Apple will better implement force touch so that you can set up onscreen buttons to work with harder presses instead of taps.
Long story short, I swim and the screen is hard to use when wet. If the buttons use the same capacitive tech, it'll make the watch even more inaccessible when in the water.
I keep praying that Apple will better implement force touch so that you can set up onscreen buttons to work with harder presses instead of taps.
Yea but a crown is significantly smaller than an iPod dial. How do you propose it to work when your finger will be touching the entire dial surface due to it's small size?
Solid state buttons will improve water resistance in the Apple Watch and also take up less space, leaving more room for a bigger battery or other components.
Hard to believe they would go 100% capacitive with a device that is meant to go underwater. The underwater mode disables the capacitive touch screen so it doesn't freak out while you are swimming. Water would trigger a capacitive sensor to register a touch. Currently, you must use the hardware-based Digital Crown to take it out of underwater mode. So how would you deactivate underwater mode with a watch that uses 100% capacitive buttons.
I'm almost certain Jony Ive will keep the crown for fashion/design purposes. So maybe it'll be like a combination lock now to deactivate underwater mode -- two forward, 3 back, 5 forward ... LOL
It doesn’t stop the Digital Crown from scrolling.
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Do you regularly push buttons with fingernails?
No the Haptic doesnt stop the crown from scrolling and I never stated it did. I stated it signals when you reach an end of a list. I stated there is force on the crown to stop moving and that by design THAT is what makes the crown already digital not an analog connection as this article leads many to believe.
That flashlight button on the lock screen has really annoyed me. Until I read your comment.
I had no idea that you had to deliberately push it. I've mostly been giving it a light touch (like the control center flashlight button) and 95% of the time the light refuses to turn on. Maddening.
But now that I know, I agree with you that it has a nice, satisfying, click-button feel: Click-on, click-off, click-on, click-off. I could do it all day now.
The BIG problem is that there's no visual indication on the UI that it's a force touch button. Apple needs to fix that and then stop changing the UI so often.
I hope all the buttons in control center do this. I can do all the control center buttons clicking all day long. Lol
Maybe they can have a trackpad why can I can as I’m on the right and that scrollable and clickable that way they can merge the crown and the button
Yes. A touch bar makes the most sense. Just slide your finger along either edge of the watch bezel to scroll the display. Even the top and bottom for horizontal scrolling. Much better than using the crown. (except underwater ... and then, really!? you're scrolling through text displays underwater?)