interesting article. I have tinkered a bit with 3D Touch but haven't really adopted it into my daily use, mainly because I forget about it most of the time. It does seem like there should be a better way to see if it is on or not, other than force touching various apps to see what happens.
Wayne On 3/29/16, Traci Duncan <[email protected]> wrote: > I really enjoy the bonus feature. True, I could live without it, but it is > a fun time savor. > > I use it most on the phone app for quickly calling favorites. If I open the > phone app & 3d touch on a favorite, then I can choose from the list, if I > say, want to FaceTime. > > Another instance where I use it often is calendar. 3d touch on the calendar > is a quick way to add a new event. > > I just noticed with the latest update, I can 3d touch on weather & add a new > city or look at one of them in my list. > > Lol! In fact, I felt certain I’d want the iPhone 5SE, because I prefer a > smaller phone, but I’m not sure I want to give up 3d touch. ;) Surprise > surprise! > > Traci > >> On Mar 25, 2016, at 10:50 PM, Gordan Radić <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi! >> I use iPhone 6S Plus and I was rather curious how the 3D Touch will work >> before I got the device. >> And, like the author of the article said, it could be useful and it has >> some features which fasten the usability of the phone but it is nothing I >> can't live without. I have a three years long experience of using the >> phone without 3D Touch and frankly, I just didn't adopt the new feature. >> I'm doing things in the old mannor and just keep forgetting I can hard tap >> on the Contacts to call some favorite or push on the Messages to continue >> some recent conversation. >> Perhaps folks for whom the 6S models are the first iDevice ever will >> embrace this technology with more enthusiasm but for the old users like me >> it's not so important and I'm thinking on turning it off. >> >> S poštovanjem >> Gordan Radić <mailto://[email protected]> >> <nemoviz_animated.gif> <http://www.nemoviz.org/> >> <email.png> <mailto://[email protected]> <facebook.png> >> <http://www.facebook.com/nemoviz> <twitter.png> >> <http://www.twitter.com/nemoviz2014> >> 26.3.2016. u 1:45, Mary Otten je napisao/la: >>> In light of the recent discussion about the new iPhone and 3-D touch, I >>> post the following. >>> Mary >>> Opinion: Will limited device & app support lead 3D Touch to wither and >>> die? >>> 9to5Mac / Ben Lovejoy >>> >>> <http://9to5mac.com/2016/03/25/3d-touch-future-opinion/> >>> When Apple launched >>> <http://9to5mac.com/2015/09/09/apple-iphone-6s-iphone-6s-plus/> the >>> iPhone 6s/Plus <http://9to5mac.com/tag/iphone-6s/>, 3D Touch >>> <http://9to5mac.com/tag/3D-Touch/> was one of the headline features. >>> Apple devoted a full four-minute video to showing what it does and how it >>> works. Even today, visit the Apple website and click on the iPhone 6s >>> <https://www.apple.com/iphone-6s/>, and it’s the first thing you see. >>> Apple’s summary of the phone is ‘3D Touch, 12MP photos, 4K video.’ >>> >>> The first tab at the top of the screen is 3D Touch. The first video >>> linked is the one for 3D Touch. Scroll down the page for the detail of >>> the phone, and 3D Touch – ‘the next generation of multi-touch’ – is again >>> the first feature to be shown. Clearly Apple thinks it’s a big deal. >>> >>> And yet, the company just this week unveiled not just one but two new iOS >>> devices, neither of which offers the feature. This is perhaps >>> understandable in the case of the iPhone SE >>> <http://9to5mac.com/tag/iphone-se/> – Apple needed some tech distinctions >>> between its flagship phone and its new budget model. But it’s an odd >>> omission from a brand new iPad <http://9to5mac.com/tag/ipad-pro/> … >>> >>> >>> I’ve heard two theories about why Apple hasn’t rolled out 3D Touch more >>> widely. The first is that yield rates have been poor. That would limit >>> the volumes in which the system can be produced, and make it an expensive >>> feature to add. If that is indeed the case, it adds a second reason for >>> Apple to withhold it from its cheapest ever iPhone. >>> >>> The second is that there are significant challenges involved in >>> scaling-up 3D Touch to larger screens, and that this is the reason we >>> haven’t yet seen it on an iPad. >>> >>> While both suggestions are unconfirmed, I think they are likely true – >>> because otherwise, Apple’s behavior doesn’t make sense. There’s no other >>> reason I can see to hold back from the latest iPad a feature the company >>> champions so strongly. >>> >>> But even if it’s manufacturing challenges holding back the wider rollout, >>> it still effectively places the feature on hold for a large chunk of iOS >>> users. >>> >>> >>> >>> Nor is hardware support the only issue. While we have seen an increasing >>> number of apps adding support for 3D Touch, it has still been adopted by >>> only a minority of them. I haven’t seen any hard numbers, but if you >>> follow the ‘View 3D Touch apps in the App Store >>> <http://redirect.viglink.com/?key=63a07a52744236d41fdbc4c922cc5a7a&type=bk&u=https%3A%2F%2Fitunes.apple.com%2FWebObjects%2FMZStore.woa%2Fwa%2FviewFeature%3Fid%3D1051123013%26mt%3D8%26ls%3D1%26app%3Ditunes>‘ >>> link on Apple’s website, it shows only 56. >>> >>> Clearly there are many more than that, but a random sampling of the >>> third-party apps on the first two screens on my iPhone shows that just 9 >>> out of 37 of them support 3D Touch. Whatever the overall percentage, it’s >>> low. >>> >>> If adding 3D Touch support to an app was a complex task, you could >>> understand developers deciding not to bother until Apple makes it >>> available on more devices. But it’s not: adding Home screen actions is >>> extremely easy. For whatever reason, developers don’t appear to share >>> Apple’s view of the importance of the feature. >>> >>> And it’s not just third-party developers who haven’t fully embraced the >>> feature: there are still native Apple apps that don’t. The Activity app, >>> for one. That’s a pretty crazy state of affairs. >>> >>> >>> >>> My sampling of my own apps brings up another big problem with 3D Touch. >>> The only way I could tell which ones support it was to force-touch each >>> one in turn. Trial-and-error. There’s no other way to tell. >>> >>> As Forbes contributor Gordon Kelly <https://twitter.com/GordonKelly> put >>> it in a Facebook discussion we were having yesterday: “For the record, I >>> like 3D Touch, but it needs to be implemented in a way that removes the >>> guesswork of what is and isn’t 3D Touch enabled.” >>> >>> I’m going to be a little less polite than him. Just think about that from >>> a UI perspective: an app may or may not support a headline feature of the >>> phone, and the only way I can tell is by randomly stabbing at apps with >>> my finger like a deranged monkey. That is utterly appalling UI design, >>> and there’s no excuse for it from anyone – far less from Apple, which >>> prides itself on usability above all else. >>> >>> I would argue it’s also poor UI to have an operating system feature that >>> may or may not be available depending on the device you’re using at the >>> time. Sure, I understand that older devices may not be able to support >>> all of the latest features, and that there are some features only >>> practical on a larger screen. But someone switching between the flagship >>> iPhone and the very latest iPad should not be seeing a feature on their >>> phone that they can’t use on their iPad. >>> >>> >>> >>> So 3D Touch seems to be trapped in a Catch-22 situation. App developers >>> are seeing what looks like half-hearted support for it from Apple, and >>> not even bothering to do the pretty trivial work involved in supporting >>> Home screen actions, while Apple can’t really make too much fuss about a >>> feature that some of its high-end iOS devices don’t have at all, and >>> others have in only a relatively small percentage of apps. >>> >>> This seems to me to call into question the future of the feature. Even if >>> 3D Touch makes it into iPads in the next release, it will by then be such >>> old news Apple can’t really hype it to any significant degree. And there >>> will be a whole new generation of iPhone owners – those attracted by the >>> ability to buy the very latest iPhone at a far more affordable level – >>> who will never have experienced it. >>> >>> One final personal point. When I first experienced 3D Touch, I was >>> extremely impressed with it. I said at the time >>> <http://9to5mac.com/2015/09/25/iphone-6s-diary-day-one-first-impressions/> >>> that I saw it as a good reason to upgrade from the iPhone 6 to the 6s. >>> But I do have to say that the novelty has somewhat worn off – in part, >>> because of ‘stabbing monkey’ syndrome: it gets annoying force-touching an >>> app that does nothing, so I’ve largely stopped bothering. My use of 3D >>> Touch is limited to those apps I use most frequently. >>> >>> I do still think it’s a good feature. I like being able to upload a photo >>> to Facebook right from the Home screen. I like the ease of being able to >>> message a recent contact, resume a recent podcast, instantly recall the >>> most recent photo I took, send a tweet or add a new note. But I’m not >>> sure it’s the must-have feature I thought it might be, especially when I >>> can’t use it on my iPad. >>> >>> The real test for me will be when I try an experimental switch >>> <http://9to5mac.com/2016/03/23/iphone-se-diary-before/> to the iPhone SE. >>> I do think 3D Touch may be the thing I miss most. But I also suspect I’m >>> going to be able to live without it – and I think the way things have >>> gone so far, I may not be alone. >>> >>> What’s your view of 3D Touch? Must-have feature, nice-to-have or meh? >>> Does it annoy you to have it on your iPhone but not your iPad? Do you >>> think it has a future? 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