The S7 bro. My comment was related to the article. I know Samsung has made plenty of turds in the past. Apparantly they are improving their design though. Unlike Apple, whos latest model is the least good looking.Uhhhhh....
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Do people actually think that Samsung is just 'copying' Apple?
I'm genuinely asking, because it seems that people think Samsung can just invent and engineer into their phones a whole new pressure-sensitive screen technology in less than 6 months (after the iPhone became available) and build the assembly lines to mass-produce over 10 million devices featuring it.
Clearly, if that is the case, then Samsung are the greatest electronics design/manufacturing company in the world and are far superior to Apple in every way.
I doubt that people will be claiming Apple 'copied' Samsung if the iPhone 7 has a camera that is flush with the back-plate.
I'm genuinely asking, because it seems that people think Samsung can just invent and engineer into their phones a whole new pressure-sensitive screen technology in less than 6 months (after the iPhone became available) and build the assembly lines to mass-produce over 10 million devices featuring it.
Clearly, if that is the case, then Samsung are the greatest electronics design/manufacturing company in the world and are far superior to Apple in every way.
I doubt that people will be claiming Apple 'copied' Samsung if the iPhone 7 has a camera that is flush with the back-plate.
Then there's this...
"I have a Samsung RF4289HARS refrigerator. The Google calendar app on it has been working perfectly since I purchased the refrigerator August 2012. However, with the latest changes in Google Calendar API, I can no longer sign in to my calendar. I receive a message stating " Please check your email in Google Calendar website". I can sign in fine on my home PC and have no problem seeing the calendar on my phone. Perhaps this is a Samsung issue, but I thought I would try here first. Has anyone else experienced this problem and what was the solution?"
I've got the 6s and 99% of the time have 0 use for 3d touch. Its a complete gimmick. The only thing I use if the trackpad feature to edit a message and that's only when I remember to.
It's early days for the technology. Give the developers time to think of new ways to use it and you may change your mind.
For example I have used it to enable simple panning across maps by temporarily zooming out according to how hard you press. It requires just one touch of one finger instead of the multi-touch finger gymnastics required by the traditional pinch/swipe approach.
The idea is simple: Press and the map zooms out, showing a box around the original area. Press harder and it zooms out further. Move your finger (and the box) to a new area on the map, then let go and it zooms back in to show that area. Get near the edge of the map whilst pressing and it will automatically pan in that direction.
The gesture is not only useful for maps. It would work for any type of data where the screen is not big enough to show the whole document. It is especially useful when you tend to work at the same scale but need to move around the document, such as when reading a large PDF or a desktop website.
The fact that it only requires one finger also makes it practical on very small screens like smartwatches, unlike pinching and swiping. Unfortunately the current version of the watchOS API does not yet enable it to be implemented.
You can see it in action in this 1 minute video (which contains narration):
i feel like technology takes a bit of time to develop. we wont ever know who was working on it first. or more likely, if apple acquired the company that produced it before samsung acquired the company that produced their version. we will know that its a blatant copy if the samsung version seems like a rushed feature. if its polished, id be less hesitant to say they stole the idea
I would bet that their sales numbers aren't what they wish they would be. They usually boast about them, and they haven't done so lately. To me, that says they're not selling as many as they thought they would.
Now that's a pretty racist thing to say when you make it about all Asians. Plenty of Asian countries come up with their own innovations—especially the Japanese. And there are many brilliant minds of Asian descent working as scientists creating a better future. I know because I work with many of them (some are clients that I work with on web redesigns, some of them I take photos of for stories about their incredible research).
That all being said, I think in some places overseas it's more of a cultural thing. They don't see it as stealing because everyone is supposed to be working for the good of the society. This is especially true in communist societies (and possibly former). Communism is all great on paper until you add real humans to the equation. Then you end up with greed corrupting everything, as it is wont to do. The inverse of this is the system we have in the U.S., where the patent system is often used by trolls to stifle innovation. As always, everything in moderation. I wish we could strike a balance between an extreme system that allows free copying of others hard work, and one that doesn't hold back progress for the sake of making a few more bucks. As I grow older, I've unfortunately found that most people only fit into one extreme or the other.
Yeah why buy anything these days? Why buy a house, or a car, or clothes. I'm with you, homeless, carless and naked, but at least I'm not using anything copied. Oh wait...crap that means I can't use my iPhone either.
Perhaps. I see the point. However, in todays environment I can see the other side as well.
No, like the one on every samsung phone made prior to the iphone.
Lol, one thing for sure...do not doubt how fast Samsung can mass produce...that's their strong point.....
"I don't use it therefore t's a gimmick"
Don't know how many times I've read that here! People don't use it because since 2007 they've been manipulating the iPhone's the same way. It's hard to get folks to change a learned behavior even when doing so makes for a simpler experience. 3D Touch isn't a gimmick if you use it as intended. Far easier to move around apps, emails, etc. if iOS had it a long time ago people would love it. 3D Touch is in its infancy and there are a lot of uses devs (including Apple) will come up with in the future.
Nice post and thanks for reading my post as intended (I certainly wasn't ranting
) and that's a great clip as well.I agree with you, it is new and I think the Dev's will come up with some good stuff. I've wondered myself if a game like Fifa could support multi 3d touch. By that I mean one finger/thumb anywhere on the left side of the screen pressed to move a player, press harder and the player sprints, for passing and shooting, harder presses add more power more quickly. I'm sure EA and other Devs are testing out the tech to see what they can do with it.
Oddly, I wish my Macbook Pro had it as I think I'd use it a lot
I think you are right about games making use of 3D touch in unique new ways. Not only are games usually pioneers of new tech, but I think that this tech suits them more. Most apps don't really need inputs with continuous (as opposed to discrete) values, but games are an exception, with speed and power controls being obvious uses. 3D touch is also useful for them to provide multiple uses from the same control, according to how hard they press.
One of the things that I found difficult when implementing 3D touch was that it is hard to use in a continuous way. In my gesture the harder you press the further it zooms out, and I originally implemented that using a continuous scale. However I soon realised that this was difficult to control, so I changed it to allow two discrete zoom levels instead.
This feels better, and is more consistent with Apple's peek/poke use. You press hard to zoom out, and even harder to zoom out further. Of course it may be completely subjective and other people may be better able to control a continuous zoom level than me, so I will probably take another look at it at some time and maybe make it configurable.
In my gesture I allow the user to zoom back in to the previous zoom level by lessening the pressure. However I found that they ease off after going to the deepest level anyway, so I had to make the pressure level required to zoom back in again very low.
In case any interested developers are reading this: for my gesture I require 50% of maximum force to start zooming out; 99% for the furthest zoom level; and then only 15% to go back to from level 2 to level 1 (and of course 0% to zoom back in completely). The 15% sounds very low, considering it requires 50% to start the gesture, and 99% to zoom out fully, but it took a lot of experimenting and seems to work well, and several Apple news sites and blogs have agreed.
These values are just for my zoom/pan gesture, and I'm sure that it varies between uses. For example I know that the values are configurable for peek/pop.
Apologies for the long post, but hopefully the details will be of use to some fellow developers.
One of the things that I found difficult when implementing 3D touch was that it is hard to use in a continuous way. In my gesture the harder you press the further it zooms out, and I originally implemented that using a continuous scale. However I soon realised that this was difficult to control, so I changed it to allow two discrete zoom levels instead.
This feels better, and is more consistent with Apple's peek/poke use. You press hard to zoom out, and even harder to zoom out further. Of course it may be completely subjective and other people may be better able to control a continuous zoom level than me, so I will probably take another look at it at some time and maybe make it configurable.
In my gesture I allow the user to zoom back in to the previous zoom level by lessening the pressure. However I found that they ease off after going to the deepest level anyway, so I had to make the pressure level required to zoom back in again very low.
In case any interested developers are reading this: for my gesture I require 50% of maximum force to start zooming out; 99% for the furthest zoom level; and then only 15% to go back to from level 2 to level 1 (and of course 0% to zoom back in completely). The 15% sounds very low, considering it requires 50% to start the gesture, and 99% to zoom out fully, but it took a lot of experimenting and seems to work well, and several Apple news sites and blogs have agreed.
These values are just for my zoom/pan gesture, and I'm sure that it varies between uses. For example I know that the values are configurable for peek/pop.
Apologies for the long post, but hopefully the details will be of use to some fellow developers.
Don't be silly. Samsung and Apple know exactly what they're both working on. Corporate spies aren't such a far-fetched idea. Besides, even if it was the case that they could do what you're saying they do, look at the results.
Take the Samsung Touch ID copycat - it never bleeding well works.
