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iPhone 6S New Feature: Force Touch

Posted by timothy on from the new-britney-spears-song dept.

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.)

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  1. Re:Cool by vux984 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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.

  2. Congratulations Apple! by Megol · · Score: 1, 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 implementation isn't anything new.

    Bah.