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What does 3D Touch do that couldn't be accomplished by regular touches of varying lengths?
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A number of apple devices already have it. Same can be achieved with long presses, I have a MB and AW, the haptic feedback is a nice to have feature.
Please explain? Having it on a MB and AW, it does not allow me to do anything that a long press could not....it's a better experience due to feedback.
Long press has been there since the beginning but only a few apps support it. Is quite annoying to press the screen for a long time and figure out that most of the time nothing happens.
3D touch will take time to be implemented in all apps, but is powerful since you can apply different forces and expect different behaviours. Think about games, or drawing apps.
And you have the peek and pop functions to quickly see a content and decide to go depth into it or just go back to where you were without having to move your finger, just apply a different force. Sure you could achieve something similar with long press, but it wouldn't be quite the same.
3D touch will take time to be implemented in all apps, but is powerful since you can apply different forces and expect different behaviours. Think about games, or drawing apps.
And you have the peek and pop functions to quickly see a content and decide to go depth into it or just go back to where you were without having to move your finger, just apply a different force. Sure you could achieve something similar with long press, but it wouldn't be quite the same.
I really don't get how people don't see this as a major breakthrough. 3D touch will be to regular touch as smart-phones were to regular phones.
Read this from Jason Snell over at Macworld.
http://www.macworld.com/article/298...a-hard-problem-that-apple-got-just-right.html
People shouldn't make judgements until they've actually used it.
http://www.macworld.com/article/298...a-hard-problem-that-apple-got-just-right.html
People shouldn't make judgements until they've actually used it.
Long press already has functions in iOS. You can't reutilize it for the new tasks or it would be very confusing.
Few examples. If homescreen icon shortcuts would work with long press instead of 3D touch how would you move your icons now? Even longer long press? No thanks.
If peaking in to the links would work with long press, how would you just quickly copy the link now without first peaking into it? Longer long press?
See. Long press already has functionality. You can't take that away or add duplicate functions depending on how long you press. This would only confuse users/customers.
I see 3D touch as a really good solution for this. It's not only more intuitive and faster but it gives you physical feedback too.
Also... I cant wait how innovative 3rd party developers get with the 3D touch. We already saw nice example during the keynote.
Few examples. If homescreen icon shortcuts would work with long press instead of 3D touch how would you move your icons now? Even longer long press? No thanks.
If peaking in to the links would work with long press, how would you just quickly copy the link now without first peaking into it? Longer long press?
See. Long press already has functionality. You can't take that away or add duplicate functions depending on how long you press. This would only confuse users/customers.
I see 3D touch as a really good solution for this. It's not only more intuitive and faster but it gives you physical feedback too.
Also... I cant wait how innovative 3rd party developers get with the 3D touch. We already saw nice example during the keynote.
man it looks so good in action. I can't wait to play with it.
I don't really see how a LONG press would be better for QUICKLY viewing an email, so there's that...
How is it going to work on the home screen when you want to move an app to another page or a different spot? Is 3D Touch going to be annoying for that?
A touch and hold is still a touch and hold. 3d touch is the deeper presses.
Impressed. Looks great. Excited to see what's possible for it like in the jailbreak community.
As shown in one of the 3D Touch demo's from Apple - someone 3D Touches an address sent to them in Messages and it instantly shows them that address in maps. Now if it was a long press, the user would of had a few options but couldn't go to the map. So there are some awesome ways that this will help the user and as previously commented, once developers get on board with this it'll be even better.
Quick question anybody? The video on Apple's Website showing the 3D Touch and the haptic feedback etc, is that a 6s or 6s plus in the demo?
You imagine how many people would get frustrated, and how tough it would be to learn what time length you need to press to do each task? I could see easily pressing too long and doing something different than what you wanted it to do. It will be easier t adapt to pressure vs length.
Same sorta stuff was spouted at the introduction of multi touch. Never will replace buttons. People will not adopt onscreen over physical keys. I still think all the swipes, taps, double taps, short and long touches, peek and pop pressure are leading to elimination of the home button. More and more commands, menus are accessed directly rather then going back to home screen. Less bezel, larger screen in smaller phone, these are a coming.
And as far as; "they can't win", Apple is winning all the way to the bank of Ireland. So no need to worry.
Less bezel, larger screen in smaller phones is not a "coming", it existed for couple of years at least (LG G2 is a good example of a 2 year old tech). If you're talking about iPhone specifically, then yes, it might be coming.