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0 pointsn8cpdx2y ago0 comments

3D touch solves some problems for touch interfaces, but sadly Apple killed it (everywhere except Magic Trackpad, for some reason).

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earthboundkid2y ago· 5 in thread

It never worked though. It would just pop in randomly at unexpected times. It sucked.

xp842y ago

Hmm. It worked fabulously for me, and spared me from waiting a beat every. Single. Time. that I want to get what we now know as a long-press menu.

earthboundkid2y ago

The problem was they made deep press and long press do different things, so it chose the wrong one regularly. I don't know why they ever thought that was a good idea. It was obvious that deep press should have just been "faster long press".

withinboredom2y ago

How did you get it to work on bumpy car rides, or while jogging?

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boxed2y ago

I LOVED it. I could move the text cursor with precision AND do text selection with the same precision and FAST. In some situations faster and with more precision than I would have been able to do with a mouse even.

Such a great loss that they dumped it.

tuetuopay2y ago

cursor move is still available with a long press of the spacebar, but I dearly miss the selection. that was the killer application of 3d touch I think.

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