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iOS 9 to Feature Force Touch With Haptic Feedback, New Keyboard and Group Read Receipts

Tycho24 said:
Yup, it would be awesome if the iOS 9 update automatically gave any device 2gb of RAM.
Too bad that's impossible & your comment nonsensical.
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Yet the article is talking about force touch, which is impossible with a software update.

Your comment is nonsensical.
 
Hopefully apple will add a number row on the keyboard like with Android keyboards. Haptic feedback is a long overdue feature.
 
Coming from the new MacBook....I think this would be a nice feature.

Long hold on a word in Safari and bring up a dictionary or whatever....

Be able to differentiate between a long hold or soft hold and rely solely on pressure
 
dannyyankou said:
Yep, check out my edit. Apple filed for a force sensitive display in July 2012.
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Speaking of which, have you seen this little gem?

http://www.patentlyapple.com/patent...gen-tactile-sensations-including-texture.html

I've been watching the haptic field developing from companies like Sensug and Disney (their R&D arm is amazing...guess who they have close ties with;)).

I'm absolutely convinced that we will be feeling our UI's in less than 5 years time. Textures and temperatures together open up a whole new world.

EDIT: Should have added this one, it's a doozy: http://www.patentlyapple.com/patent...-intelligent-multi-tiered-haptics-system.html
 
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ThisIsNotMe said:
Why on earth would Apple do that? Do you expect them to ship a device where the only application on it is settings and the app store?

The vast majority of people want out of the box functionality and are not neurotic over a few megabytes of space.
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it's not about the space, it's about forcing niche features onto the general masses. I'm not saying just a phone with a settings icon and that's it. I'm saying that these can easily be "add from the App Store" like what they did with Pages, Numbers, Garageband... It's about embracing and elegant experience, if you don't use an app, you should at least be able to remove it. not make a folder of clutter. Newsstand shouldn't show up unless you subscribe to a magazine from the store, simple execution that appeals to both parties that use or don't use it. Tips should be something accessible from settings, no reason it lives on the home screen. Compass should at most be built into maps. Stocks shouldn't be more than a notification toggle. These are apps that shouldn't be burdened on the average user. Ideally for me I'd love if you could units any app and apple builds stronger APIs to allow any developer to make an able that integrates throughout the system.
 
Michael Goff said:
If you look at the two designs, they're different ways of doing the same thing. I don't see how one is a copy.
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That's how technology works. There is always another way to accomplish the same thing (take a look at Samsung's "pinch to zoom" patents).

I've got nothing against Samsung's R&D department, but from a corporate and IP standpoint there is a reason why patent attorney's refer to them as "fast followers".
 
Typical Apple strategy to introduce a 'new' feature requiring existing iPhone 6 owners to upgrade.
Except haptic feedback has been around for so long. It really should have been implemented 2 generations back.
As long as they don't remove capabilities, I'm okay.
 
verniesgarden said:
for a device that prides itself on elegance, it has some of the jankiest ways to do things. putting things in a folder because they should simply be apps downloadable from the app store is not by any means a good solution.
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Every company has apps that they want you to have. It's a way they make money. If everything is by choice, then, many people won't even know they exist. By having it with the OS, everyone see them, and will likely try them.

I don't see a big deal in putting apps you don't use in a folder. I don't know why some people get all torn up about it.

If people want to get upset, get upset about the way Samsung duplicates each Google app with worse ones, and doesn't allow you to remove these. At least here, it's Apple's own apps. And there really aren't that many of them.
 
satchmo said:
Typical Apple strategy to introduce a 'new' feature requiring existing iPhone 6 owners to upgrade.
Except haptic feedback has been around for so long. It really should have been implemented 2 generations back.
As long as they don't remove capabilities, I'm okay.
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You don't have to upgrade.
 
Force Touch and 2Gb RAM

Guys, the article is about more than iOS 9. It's talking about phone hardware as well, so comments about RAM and such are perfectly reasonable here.

But it may be too soon to see force touch this year on the phone.
 
JPIS said:
Will the new iProbe be a simple implant procedure that can be performed easily under local anesthesia or will it require a full "knock out" to get the tint pin into the brain? :eek:

However, it we're talking wireless and wearing a patch a la seasickness variety, this may be worth the trip to the pharmacy, er Apple Store. :D
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no you'll just stick it up your ass
 
Force touch on the iPad Air 3 is going to be disastrous if they don't make it thicker :eek:
 
uid15 said:
The hardware implements force touch, this title implies this feature would be suddenly available to previous gen devices, through a mere update.
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Force touch requires both hardware and software support, as does the haptic feedback. Look at the new Mac notebooks, force touch doesn't really do much because OS X (and individual applications) only offer a handful of functions so fare that can be accessed via force touch.
 
baryon said:
Sounds like they got it right for the Finnish keyboard. That's what I mean, I'd like that for the Hungarian keyboard (which has about 10 extra letters beyond the 26 English ones) to have separate keys without having to go into the menu. Obviously this probably wouldn't fit onto the iPhone 4 or 5 screen, but the iPhone 6 and iPad have plenty of space for that. The problem is not just the accents, it's that if you type without them, auto-correct fails to work and you're basically writing something that's already missing accents, it's got typos, and auto-correct gives you a helping hand to completely change the words you're saying into something totally different.



I mean not from the pop-up menu, but as actual individual keys just like A, B, C, etc... Try typing texts all day and having to access the pop up menu three times per word.



Yeah like I'm going to do that every time I type an accented letter. Imagine if to type any vowel in English, you'd have to press and hold then select a letter from a pop up menu, it would be so inconvenient you would not do it. It slows you down about 300%. It's great for typing the odd foreign word, but not for typing in that language in general. So then you end up typing without the accents, and you can still figure out what the person what trying to type, however, auto-correct becomes useless because for iOS's auto-correct, "A" and "Á" are just as different as "A" and "Z", so you either have to disable auto-correct (which makes it difficult to type accurately) or you have to tap-hold-select-let-go every other letter, or you have to put up with auto correct correcting words like "dog" into things like "Mississippi" for no reason (and I'm not exaggerating that much).

What I meant was the actual letters as separate keys on the keyboard, if space permits, such as on the iPad or the ultra big iPhone 6. Currently typing in some non-English languages on iOS is an absolute joke.
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So just switch your device to the language you're typing in. Like magic, your local keyboard appears. RTFM
 
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