iPhone 6S New Feature: Force Touch 191
New submitter WarJolt writes: Apple is adding Force Touch to their iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S Plus. I'm not sure if Force Touch enough to convince an Android user like myself to switch, but there are definitely some interesting possibilities for app developers. A challenge for App developers will be to make apps compatible with both Force Touch iPhones and non-force touch iPhones. (Here's the Bloomberg report Forbes draws from.)
Infringment! (Score:2, Funny)
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That's doesn't even make a little bit of sense.
What is it? (Score:5, Insightful)
Hey janitors that run this site, don't link to Wikipedia or anything to tell us what "force touch" is.
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When a user touches the screen, the x, y touch position is passed to the app. With force touch, the amount of pressure the finger exerts on the screen is also passed to the app allowing for all kinds of interesting behavior.
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My watch has force touch, and I'm not a big fan. You have to push a little too much to make me comfortable, it's not a natural motion. It's also just a binary thing, you either tap or force touch. There's no gradient of pressure. We'll see what the implementation is on the watch
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You can really think of it as the touch equivalent of "right click". Something that touch screens do poorly is how to emulate a right-click or contextual action. Many do it as a touch-hold (press your finger to the screen for a secon
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Like the Nintendo DS / DSi / 3DS? Or the other decades-old touch screen devices I already own?
Why is this news? The resistive touch screen has been around for ages, and it's still superior to capacitive trash.
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No, we're talking about pressure-sensitive inputs, and retards like you are acting as if it's a new thing.
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Hey janitors that run this site, don't link to Wikipedia or anything to tell us what "force touch" is.
"Force Touch" is a slightly less invasive, but more perverse, adaptation of the Sith skill "Force Push".
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"Force Touch" is a slightly less invasive, but more perverse, adaptation of the Sith skill "Force Push".
Coming soon to a TSA checkpoint near you.
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THAT IS NOT MY COW!
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The article / website is broken as it only shows a white page when you visit with scripts disabled.
Really bad article to post here on Slashdot
Force powers (Score:1)
Wow the first in a series of Jedi powers! I want Force Push or Force Speed next!
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I'm waiting for the Force Choke feature. I hear Lord Vader has been working to make that happen.
Coming soon (Score:2)
Smash touch!
Broken Screens Ahoy (Score:3)
A key part of the usability of these glass-covered capacitive-touch devices is that you can very lightly touch the surface and it'll react. Once you get the idea into people's minds that if something isn't working, you should try pressing harder (Force Touching) then frustrated people will think "I'm not pressing hard enough" and press harder and harder until they crack their screen. I've seen people with styluses repeatedly stabbing touchscreens like a psycho killer, because the device wasn't responding the way they wanted (usually because they were missing the button).
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Are you sure you can break the screen by just applying more force with a single finger?
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I've seen people with styluses repeatedly stabbing touchscreens like a psycho killer, because the device wasn't responding the way they wanted (usually because they were missing the button).
No, it's for one reason and one reason only, and that's a lack of feedback. Any control that doesn't respond instantly is a total fucking failure and the programmer should be taken out back and slapped with a wet trout. You shouldn't even draw controls until you're ready to respond to them. Wait, I lied, there's two reasons. You can't tell when a PDA or phone is grinding. That's a total idiot fail, because it leaves the user scratching their head wondering when their device will respond. Remember watching t
"This is a strength tester app." (Score:2)
"This is a strength tester app. When I say 'go!', tap the screen as hard as you can!"
Force Touch ... (Score:2)
Unsourced rumor is unsourced (Score:2)
Bloomberg printing an unsourced rumor does not magically turn it into news. Forbes citing Bloomberg printing an unsourced rumor also does not magically make it news.
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Another interesting rumor: the camera (Score:2)
But I am more interested ln the expected camera improvements. Apple bought a company specialising in a new kind of multi sensor camera thet promises much improved picture quality, more so in low light and it could be used for 3d pictures.
i have the 6 plus which is already capable of surprisingly acceptable pictures, and if the low light quality still improves then the phone could convince me to leave my bigger gear more often at home.
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For that matter, make sensors that work to visible+100% on each side, and compress the entire visual spectrum to that 3x visual, so things would be a false-color outside human range. Use it as a type of tri-corder.
Ouch! (Score:2)
Now your iPhone can scream "Ouch!" when you hit it with a hammer out of frustration. :P
Switch? (Score:3)
I assume Android users prefer Android because of the things it has, not those it lacks. How would something that is not on Android convince them to switch? I have several iPhones (up to the iPhone 6 plus) due to my job, but I have never actually used them as phones, they sit on my desk due to their limited OS. Thinking about it, the thing that annoys me most when I use them is probably the lack of a "back" button that works outside just the App level. The fact that I can't connect mass storage devices to them, or at least connect them as a mass storage device is also a serious drawback considering what I usually want to do with a phone. I am not in love with Android. In fact, my first Android phone was the first phone I ever had that I considered a regression from my previous (an N9), mainly due to the OS having a much worse UI than the swipe UI of Maemo/Meego (and of course other drawbacks - I only switched because Meego was abandoned and it lacked some essential apps). So for me it does not seem hard to make something more usable than Android, others have already done it. But force touch is not what is missing.
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I use Android because because an iPhone 6+ costs $750, and the same-size Oneplus One costs $250.
Also: the persistent back button... seems like Apple has kludged quite a bit to not just put a second button on their device.
Oh, and the Shortyz crossword app.
The way people fondle their iPhones ... (Score:2)
As far as "Force Touch" goes, remember: No means No.
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You and me baby ain't nothin' but mammals
Sorry, Misunderstood... (Score:2)
Congratulations Apple! (Score:2, Interesting)
You have finally realized that your touchscreen controller actually provides a pressure strength and are able to hype it up like it's revolutionary.
Not even if we realize the limitations of pressure sensing of a standard capacitive controller and add additional sensors to make the detection less granular is this something new. I don't know how long Synaptics (touchpad manufacturer) have had their capacitive+force sensor combination available but it is at least two years, but even ignoring that the idea and
Re:Congratulations Apple! (Score:5, Insightful)
You have finally realized that your touchscreen controller actually provides a pressure strength and are able to hype it up like it's revolutionary.
Not even if we realize the limitations of pressure sensing of a standard capacitive controller and add additional sensors to make the detection less granular is this something new. I don't know how long Synaptics (touchpad manufacturer) have had their capacitive+force sensor combination available but it is at least two years, but even ignoring that the idea and implementation isn't anything new.
Bah.
Err, no.
Apple's implementation of force touch on the Macbook Pro trackpad (where it is current used, not counting this rumour that it will be on the iPhone) uses a set of strain gauges to measure the applied pressure. It doesn't use the touchscreen controller.
You might want to actually look up how it works before trying to score a "sick burn" (is that what the kids call it these days?) from your armchair quarterback position.
I also don't see where Apple are hyping it up to make it seem like a revolution. They are advertising that the MBPr and MB have it, but I fail to see how their advertising materials claim it's revolutionary. Unless you think the term "whole new way to experience a trackpad" means that, and not "this trackpad works differently than the old ones due to the numerous new ways you can use it due to the force sensors"
Apple is frequently guilty of hyperbole when it comes to advertising, but on the force touch it's pretty understated. Did you just assume they would claim it was a revolution that had never been seen before? Given that you don't understand how Apple's implementation works I have to assume you've done zero research on it. Google (a popular search engine) can tell you quite a lot about it if you're interested.
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Right now, Apple haven't said a word on the matter, let alone "hyped it up like it's revolutionary". There is zero confirmation from Apple, this is just a blog article based on a rumour.
Honey, another delivery from Amazon just arrived (Score:2)
This isn't new (Score:2)
Why would it make you want to switch? Android apps [google.com] have been doing it since at least 2011 [github.com]. Android's touch API communicates sufficient information to implement this if you wish.
But this being Apple, they will give it a fancy name, everyone will think they invented it, and they will pretend like they invented it. Just like Siri, which came ou
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When you can't tell the difference between literal rul-of-thumb finger pattern on a capacitative screen and strain gauges, it just makes you look stupid.
It says nothing about Apple.
Higher priorities (Score:2)
Apple should have higher priorities than force touch.
For instance, make a power-on button that works for more than a couple years.
Last three iPhones my wife and I bought had the power switch become less responsive (requiring heavy pressure to register) after about three years.
Or, of course, just expect everyone to throw away their phones in 2 years. That seems to be what everyone does, anyway.
If for e touch was useful... (Score:2)
Won't work for me... (Score:2)
...I'm not a Jedi.
Will it suck like... (Score:2)
Will it suck like force touch on the Apple Watch, and the stupid microswitch on the Apple Magic Trackpads?
I have both. The problem with the watch is that it makes both force touch and normal touch suck. You have to be dainty with a normal touch or it is not recognized. And force touch seems to require the some gorilla approach as the trackpad. Ow! It hurts my thumb!
Fortunately, Apple long ago realized how awful that switch on the trackpads is (this started with the notebooks, and then they decided this dysf
Lesson from Sony Dualshock 3 vs 4 (Score:2)
Re:Cool (Score:5, Informative)
Android has pressure sensitive styluses. Which have also been available for iOS for years. This is Force Touch, which as it's name implies is about measuring the force of finger touches. Android doesn't have it.
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This is Force Touch, which as it's name implies is about measuring the force of finger touches.
For what its worth, (and probably not much) I have a new macbook pro with the force touchpad. I've never actually used it. Not once. Not ever. I tried it on the demo unit in the store to see what the fuss was... but I count it as a total gimmick.
I really only ever use the tap-to-click; so I don't even click the touchpad, nevermind force-click it.
Re:Cool (Score:5, Informative)
Your force touch trackpad does not "click" (no traditional hinge movement). The taptic engine behind the track pad simulates the click feeling for click depth without the surface depressing.
So, every time you do or have "clicked" your track pad, you have used the force touch feature.
Secondly, force touch on the Apple Watch works beautifully and will be useful on the iPhone too. Different use cases. Contextual menus in iOS apps will be a great addition.
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So, every time you do or have "clicked" your track pad, you have used the force touch feature.
Nope. My macbook pro trackpad definitely has a haptic click if I acutally push on it, and then a second click if i push harder.
I *never* touch it with enough force to engage either.
So, every time you do or have "clicked" your track pad, you have used the force touch feature.
The feature is there, and I might be technically using it in the sense that I can't use the trackpad without using it. But the fact that it is 'force touch' is irrelevant to me, I find it no different to the trackpad in my previous macbook pro which didn't have it.
Secondly, force touch on the Apple Watch works beautifully
Meh, a gimmick on a product that is itself a gimmick?
and will be useful on the iPhone too. Contextual menus in iOS apps will be a great addition.
Yeah, maybe. Then again, a phone with more buttons kind of solves most of those issues too; and is more intuitive to use. Just saying.
I'm not anti-apple; I'm using an mbp to write this... but I have no interest in their walled garden; or their watch. The force touch tech... is an evolutionary step with some uses and I do expect to see it become ubuiqitous, but its hardly anything to get excited about.
Re:Cool (Score:5, Informative)
No, it really doesn't.
Look at the teardown of the MBPr's trackpad - it doesn't physically have a clickable button any more. It is 100% exclusively totally (just for redundancy) controlled via haptic feedback.
It does not physically click. Not even a little bit.
It is a flat plate with no moving parts that has a haptic feedback device fixed to it.
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No, it really doesn't.
It really doesn't MATTER.
There are two thresholds where it clicks - the fact that its haptic vs mechanical is irreelevent. I never ever touch it with enough force to engage either click threshold.
So any additional functionality mapped to touching with greater force; I'm not ever using. So it may as well not be there.
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No, it really doesn't.
It really doesn't MATTER.
There are two thresholds where it clicks - the fact that its haptic vs mechanical is irreelevent. I never ever touch it with enough force to engage either click threshold.
So any additional functionality mapped to touching with greater force; I'm not ever using. So it may as well not be there.
Ah, so you're changing your argument. Fair enough.
I was just pointing out that you were factually incorrect and based an argument on it. Next time you say that you don't use any part of a technology that you literally have to (because that's how the trackpad works in its entirety) you'll know a little more about it.
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Ah, so you're changing your argument. Fair enough.
I'm not changing the argument. My position was and remains that I don't use the force touch feature.
Next time you say that you don't use any part of a technology that you literally have to [...]
If I have a variable speed blender, and I only ever use one speed, then I am not using the variable speed feature.
The variable speed FEATURE is the ability to vary the speed. The fact that I always use one speed means I'm not using variable speed feature.
Then someone comes along arguing that the fact that the one speed I always use is technically a selection of one of the variable speed settings... who gives
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Do you touch the trackpad to make it work?
Then you're using the force touch feature, even if you don't click.
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Then you're using the force touch feature, even if you don't click.
Given that use case, would it be any different to doing that on a trackpad that doesn't have Force Touch?
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It was pretty clear what he meant, you were just being a dick.
If you're following the comments, why didn't you log in?
It was clear that the original poster didn't understand how the technology worked.
Also, if my comment to him is considered "being a dick" then my goodness he must have a thin skin. He'd better be careful on the internet. What specifically about it is me "being a dick"?
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You don't get it.
What vux984 is saying is that he set up the magic trackpad so that he only has to touch the trackpad to click, and he does not have to exert a force on it.
I personally got rid of everything that requires to exert an additional vertical force on the trackpad the day I tried to use it on my laps. I'm talking about a wireless magic trackpad of course. I replaced everything with two and three fingers gestures, and it feels so confortable that I setup my laptop the same way, and never looked back. So force touch for me doesn't make sense, but I have to admit that I have not tried a force touch enabled magic trackpad.
I do get it. He is saying that he has never used the force touch feature when that's literally impossible, even if he taps it lightly enough to just register his finger - the cap sensor and the strain gauges work together on the new trackpad. Je just didn't understand that.
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Perhaps if you log in we can discuss it. It's pretty obvious.
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Don't you use it every time you click on the trackpad?
I don't even click the touchpad [slashdot.org]
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>Which have also been available for iOS for years.
Ummm... what? I haven't seen any iOS devices with WACOM or N-Trig... everything available for iOS devices has been the high-tech equivalent of fingerpainting.
Re:Cool (Score:4, Informative)
WACOM you say? Yes they do them for iOS.
http://uk.pcmag.com/tablets/13... [pcmag.com]
And there are several other companies that also do pressure sensitive styluses for iOS.
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That's an edge case - a special product that doesn't work system-wide - and not a traditional WACOM stylus - the latter requires an active digitizer panel integrated in the screen, which iOS devices simply do not have. There's an entirely different level of accuracy involved, and the iOS version of the product only works with certain apps.
Traditional "real" WACOM styli work system-wide... everywhere you can use a pointing device. And they have absolute positioning on screen.
I am intrigued though - I wonder
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Are you talking about graphics tablets - separate from the screen? Can you point to an actual product you are referring to? I already came back with an affirmative on your WACOM query, if you're being more selective even than that, then be explicit and actually state what you're talking about.
It's pretty obvious how the iOS stylus works, but if you point to what it is you are thinking of it'll be easier to explain by comparison.
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OK, from the top then :D
Traditional tablet PCs with WACOM styluses have existed for ages - over 10 years. They use an active digitizer (built into the screen) combined with an inductive stylus, which has a pressure-sensitive tip and does not require a battery. It's the same technology WACOM uses for its separate graphics tablets, which is why the pens are, in many cases, interchangeable - I can use the pen from my graphics tablet for my tablet PC (in this case, a Samsung ATIV Smart PC tablet), for instance.
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I dunno about you, but while the reviewer keeps talking about fast performance, I'd pretty much be pulling my hair out. That might be because of that Bamboo drawing app on the iPad though, and not because the Bluetooth connection is lagging (although that's a possibility too!).
That's definitely a big part of it, I've reviewed a few different stylus/tablet solutions (except for some of nicer Android solutions I couldn't easily get my hands on like the note) and part of the problem is the smoothness of the ipad screen and the stylus nib; because it's so very smooth many apps do a lot of interpolation of the data to create more natural lines introducing a noticeable lag. This can be adjusted in some, with the tradeoff of an unnatural writing experience. Some (like the bamboo paper
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That was the most irrational message I've read in a while.
A new hardware feature leaves users of older devices "out in the cold"? How is that different for iPhones than any other smartphone?
And "after a few months"? Android manufacturers release new phones every month. iPhone has a new model once a year. How can you possibly have not worked out that your stupid criticism applies to Android not iPhone?
And windowing? iOS has windowing on the iPad, where it makes sense. Windowing on a phone makes no sense what
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What you don't appreciate is that there is always a cost to adding UI. If the phone has windowing then there has to be some means of activating it. And that's extra UI. And if that extra UI has to work with the iPhone, then that has implications for how it's implemented on the iPad.
The windowing system on the iPad is really sweet. It uses the dimensions of the screen really well. Why potentially fuck it up for no gain by implementing windowing on iPhone?
What people miss about the essence of good design is i
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Actually curious here...links?
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also i want to not be stuck using the apple ecosystem and use what i want to use.
It has this. (Score:4, Informative)
the only thing i can think of that would get me to switch to ios over android would be if they came out of the box with the ability to sideload apps without jailbreaking
It has this. Just enroll the device as a developer device, and compile the code, or enroll it as a corporate device, if you want to use precompiled code you trust but that Apple won't allow into the App store because Apple doesn't trust it.
If you mean thing like side-loading just random crap, like if I were a private detective hired by your wife, and had 60 seconds of access to your iPhone, I could sideload some serious backdoor onto your phone to enable me to monitor your texts, phone calls, email, Facebook, and so on ... I'm pretty sure no one wants someone else to be able to load that kind of crap on their phones, but if you can do it, they can do it, too.
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If you mean thing like side-loading just random crap, like if I were a private detective hired by your wife, and had 60 seconds of access to your iPhone, I could sideload some serious backdoor onto your phone to enable me to monitor your texts, phone calls, email, Facebook, and so on ... I'm pretty sure no one wants someone else to be able to load that kind of crap on their phones, but if you can do it, they can do it, too.
Well hey, now -- I've seen some wobbly straw men in my time, but that one might just take the cake.
The hostility Apple fans have for those who still want computers (even hand-held ones) to be general purpose computing devices that are actually owned by their owners never ceases to amaze me.
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If you mean thing like side-loading just random crap, like if I were a private detective hired by your wife, and had 60 seconds of access to your iPhone, I could sideload some serious backdoor onto your phone
As opposed to downloading a remote access program from the store? This is about as FUD as it gets. The ability to side load is not a physical security exposure. If you have a lock screen then access is blocked in any case. If you don't have a lock screen, then the mythical walled garden won't protect you. Blocking side load only makes sense when it comes to protection from user error, and even then on Android you can side load single apps without enabling universal installation of apks so the only thing you
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As opposed to downloading a remote access program from the store?
These programs have to be explicitly launched by the user themselves after each boot. In other words, they are about as dangerous as a tethered jailbreak, shich is to say: Not very.
This is about as FUD as it gets. The ability to side load is not a physical security exposure. If you have a lock screen then access is blocked in any case. If you don't have a lock screen, then the mythical walled garden won't protect you. Blocking side load only makes sense when it comes to protection from user error, and even then on Android you can side load single apps without enabling universal installation of apks so the only thing you're left with is user stupidity.
How about we turn this around: Other than pirating commercial software or installing spyware, what do you lose by an inability to side-load without a jailbreak?
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How about we turn this around: Other than pirating commercial software or installing spyware, what do you lose by an inability to side-load without a jailbreak?
We'll never know the answer to this, because we'll never know what apps would have been available if side-loading existed.
Re:It has this. (Score:4, Insightful)
How about we turn this around: Other than pirating commercial software or installing spyware, what do you lose by an inability to side-load without a jailbreak?
Really? That is a question? Is that how far we've fallen down the dumb consumer hole?
How about being able to create and share programs on phones without the blessing of some magical corporate entity, or without someone having to fork over money for a developers license?
This isn't some pie in the sky ideal either. Writing programs and giving them to others is something people actually do. I was asked to write a simple program that did a few tasks for the local astronomy club and I happily obliged and gave people the resulting APK without getting on my knees and fellating some corporate 3rd party.
I mean shit I expect a comment like yours from some mindless hipster drone, but this is Slashdot for fucks sake.
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How about we turn this around: Other than pirating commercial software or installing spyware, what do you lose by an inability to side-load without a jailbreak?
Really? That is a question? Is that how far we've fallen down the dumb consumer hole?
How about being able to create and share programs on phones without the blessing of some magical corporate entity, or without someone having to fork over money for a developers license?
Perfectly doable, if you have source code to what's being shared, or if what's being shared is being distributed as linkable object files. Have you really not looked into current iPhone software development tools? It doesn't require paying the $99 fee to install whatever crap you want on your own device. The fee is for the ability to list on the App Store.
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And the ability to share the file and send it to anyone else? Were you not reading a word of what I said? How does telling someone to register a phone as a developer phone, download the SDK, and compiling a program from source compare to say installing something you made by clicking on a link and hitting okay?
Do you defend every company which charges premium prices for a product where they limit your ability to do something every computer has been able to do for the last 50 years, or do you have some self d
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Do you defend every company which charges premium prices for a product where they limit your ability to do something every computer has been able to do for the last 50 years
Of course.
I will happily defend IKEA for selling me a chair that is limited from being able to do *anything* "every computer has been able to do for the last 50 years".
Except, you know, being sat on. If I can't sit on the chair, I'd be pretty unhappy. On the other hand, not every computer in the last 50 years has been large enough or flat enough to sit on. You gotta draw that line somewhere!
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I mean shit I expect a comment like yours from some mindless hipster drone, but this is Slashdot for fucks sake.
Eternal September... it is eternal.
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Somebody should invent passwords!
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If you want to do it just for yourself (i.e. not "enterprise" wide) and are willing to compile any code, then you *don't* need to pay. Apple is making it so you can use XCode and install on your device without paying the $99 to become a registered developer. You only need to do that (and incur the fee) if you want to submit to the App Store.
Not quite as convenient / insecure / freedom enabling (pick your sentiment) as Android, and only practical for open source / personal projects, but still better than it
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So you can compile your own code but you can't share it with your friends without paying up?
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Huh? How does JB an iPhone weaken the security in a way that Android is not similarly weakened? Running code as root is running code as root. Android doesn't include SELinux policies, you know.
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Actually, yes it is hard. 8.4 has never been jail broken. How would you do your detective stuff on my phone?
You forgot the sarcasm tag.
Not everyone knows that most of iOS users won't get iOS 8.4 [gottabemobile.com] until two or three days from now (June 29th or 30th).
Android users are having similar problems with the Android M Preview. You can install the Android M Preview on a rooted device, some manufacturers will even officially give you access to their official custom Android M ROM, but you can't unroot and then reroot an existing device with Android M Preview on it. If you try to do so, SuperSU will go into an infinite loop.
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wow. first, i did a typo and meant 8.3. the last jailbreak was for 8.1.2, so very few were at risk. but just yesterday the 8.3 jailbreak was released! so I take back what I said. http://www.techtimes.com/artic... [techtimes.com]
This is me sucking on the dick of truth: B====D ~ ~ ~
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not even the most advanced security system will protect against weak passwords. since the fappening apple has made 2fa default and rolled it out across more services. which it should have been before. but still, choose good passwords!
https://www.quora.com/How-were... [quora.com]
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You mean don't use your own birthdate and don't answer security questions truthfully.
Because according to the link you provided, passwords weren't the weakest part of iCloud's negligent security.
Also, Apple’s “Forgot my password” system means that if you know the victim’s birthday and the answers to some security questions, you might gain access to their account.
Re: Cool (Score:2)
How is this about Android. The OS doesn't add the hardware feature, it will only support it. They are a lot of New Android phones that don't have that feature as well.
Now I don't expect Apples goal is to switch over Android users but to keep their devises up to date with other winning technology trends and with their vision of future tech as to keep the existing user base and try to get new to the phone users.
For the most part if you are an Android user or an iOS user you will not switch unless their is so
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squealing like gang-raped schoolgirls
Gang-raped schoolgirls don't squeal in real life. In those Japanese videos you've seen, the girls are actresses, and their squealing is actually a fairly sophisticated response that walks a thin line between rape simulation and forbidden fantasies.
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My best friend has been gang-raped (by adults) when she was in middle school. It lasted for 6 hours, and she required extensive medical care after that event, including reconstructive surgery in multiple areas (genitals, colon, dental and facial). For the parts that she recalls, she did not "squeal".
As it happens, one of our common friends is a porn producer that specializes in hardcore stuff. So we have discussed the whole rape fantasy thing extensively over the years.
None of this makes me an expert, but I
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Yeah, right, those right button clicks on a mouse are so pointless aren't they. There can't possibly be two different purposes for tapping a point can there.
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There's no rape culture at Apple, unless you count the Chinese workers who are poisoned on the iPhone assembly lines for $100 per month, or the idiots in the Apple Store who are paid $100 per day to sell stuff they can't afford themselves to people who don't need it.
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Yeah they had production problems, but those suicide prevention nets really did the job. Smooth sailing until the next slave uprising.
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Given the numerous Android security problems and APPs with hidden data collection issues, I'ld say forget 'Force Touch' as a reason to switch.
If I was a celeb I'd rather have "Android security problems" than The Fappening, As a nobody, the only people likely to steal my naughty pics are Geek Squad employees, and they can do it on IOS or Android so that's no reason to switch.
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Resistive touch screens typically get pressure sensitivity for free, capacitive screens do not. It's usually faked by doing tricks with contact patch area. As you push harder your finger tip flattens and contacts a larger area of the screen. I don't know whether Apple's implementation is the same or if they've actually integrated a strain gauge or something for real pressure sensitivity.
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Apple's implementation (at least on the trackpad on the Macbook Pro) is a set of strain gauges and a haptic feedback device that simulates the "click".
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If so, I hope they use a much softer material. :(
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I guess I'm confused, but we've developed Android applications for years, one of which involves an interactive water surface. We made use of pressure sensitivity and it worked fine.
It is true that the Android API provides a 'pressure' parameter with touch events, but as far as I know in practice this is just an estimate based on the area of the detected touch. That is, the more pixels are covered by a finger, the stronger of the touch is assumed to be. There are truly pressure-sensitive pens available for Android (and for iOS), but they are far from common. Apple's pressure-sensitive screen is something new, at least for a consumer-electroncs device.
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I use press-and-hold in my own apps and UIKit even includes UILongPressGestureRecognizer as a pre-configured subclass to use for detecting such events. This has been available since whichever iOS introduces gesture recognizers (5 or 6, I think).
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If you take that comment and swap 'iOS' and 'Android', you go from a -1 to +5.