if you've ever watched an apple launch event or a tv commercial you probably
know that they typically pick a handful of game-changing features to focus on
and to their credit they largely succeed in creating tons of buzz around the
newest eye thing making you a professional photographer or something
but one feature that took quite a lot of engineering and apple made quite a bit
of noise about it is on the verge of dying a quiet death and i'm not talking
about the ipod click wheel if you've got a recent gen iphone odds are that it has
a feature called 3d touch but when was the last time you
actually used it the basic idea behind 3d touch is that the iphone would
incorporate a pressure sensitive screen which you can learn much more about
right up here to enable additional functionality depending on how hard the
user was pushing down on the screen most notably a harder press on an object
would tell the iphone to open up a context menu instead of opening it up
normally so for example a hard press on an email message would give you options
to delete it or mark it as read in a couple of ways this feature made a
lot of sense like for example Linus absolutely raved about it in his review
of the iphone 6s which he declared to be his top smartphone of the year like it
just makes sense having an alternate or right-click option has been a feature
for decades on desktop pcs and since you're dealing with a very limited
amount of screen real estate on a smartphone giving users more control on
the up and down axis seems to open up quite a few possibilities right but
while the tech itself is undeniably cool
apple found that very few iphone users were actually taking advantage of it but
why well here's the thing modern smartphone
design is moving towards minimalism both on the hardware and software sides and
this is all in the name of improving intuitiveness with respect to how we
interact with them need to take a photo tap the little picture of a camera need
to move something off to the side just swipe it in that direction but with 3d
touch there really wasn't any kind of intuitive this is how you use this
feature signal in iOS or in most apps
consequently many users didn't really realize it was there and many app
developers didn't bother to take advantage of the technology which made
it quite a bit different from the right-click paradigm of how the pc works
as it's rather difficult to ignore the fact that there's a large second button
on your mouse not to mention the fact that 3d touch was unnecessarily
complicated if you're an Android user you probably know that simply using a
long press rather than a hard press will open up a context menu just as 3d touch
did without the added expense of a force sensitive screen now to make it more
versatile than Android's long press 3d touch was supposed to have three levels
of pressure sensitivity but it's hard to imagine many smartphone users being able
to quickly figure out exactly how many newtons of force to apply to the screen
in order to accomplish a certain action especially on a device that pushes
intuition and simplicity as major selling points so given that apple
didn't do much to help users understand the feature and the fact that it took
the company two years to develop it apple has reportedly decided it's simply
not worth it to continue offering 3d touch the feature was already missing on
the cheaper iphone 10r and it's expected that none of the new iphones that will
be released later this year will have 3d touch so bummer for Linus i guess he
thought the feature itself was pretty easy to use if only the software had
kept up like how does a hard press on this wi-fi icon not bring up the wi-fi
configuration menu but i guess 3d touch die hards can find some solace
smartphone glass is pretty strong these days so if pressing hard on the display
made you feel empowered i say go for gold just don't go overboard and get
stuck with a repair bill because you didn't understand your own strength
you strong strong 3d touch lovers bless you
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