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0 pointsGeekyBear7y ago0 comments

In Windows 95, right clicking did not always have an effect.

There was no way to know in advance if right clicking a particular thing would provide options or not.

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cptskippy7y ago· 2 in thread

Yes however the mere presence of the right mouse button indicates that there's functionality intended. A curious user might go around right clicking on things to see what the button does. Buttons are meant to be pressed.

Force Touch has no physically or observable clues to it's existence and thus does not encourage experimentation and exploration.

GeekyBearOP7y ago

Mice on PCs had multiple buttons before Windows 95 came along to sometimes gave that right mouse button a purpose.

Despite the fact that there was zero indication that right clicking a particular thing in Windows 95 might actually do something, and the fact that there was always an alternative way to access that information or function for those who only had a one button mouse, we managed to adopt the right click functionality anyway.

Force touch is no more a secret than the adoption of the right mouse button was in Windows 95.

cptskippy7y ago

> Force touch is no more a secret than the adoption of the right mouse button was in Windows 95.

I don't think you understand discoverability at all.

People know there's a right mouse button simply by looking at the mouse. They might not know when or where to use it but they can see the button and know it has a purpose. The button invites people to press it and they might randomly try it in various places to see if it does anything and discover a feature. The OS is irrelevant.

You can't see Force Touch. You don't know it's there until someone tells.

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