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I'm just reading the live blog, but can someone provide more details on how this works. To me it just appears to be a contextual menu based on long press of th

I'm just reading the live blog, but can someone provide more details on how this works. To me it just appears to be a contextual menu based on long press of the app icon ? Is it something more than this ? I'm curious as to how this will effect when you want to move app icons.

themodelplumber 11y ago
Sometimes you don't want to have to worry about how long you're holding your finger down. It's much easier to control finger pressure than to guess how many seconds you have left before the screen changes fully into a new context.
- dzhiurgis 11y ago
  Looks like you'll have to be more precise when running, moving, etc. to prevent accidental force touches instead of taps.
bane 11y ago
it looks like it's a light touch for "peek", regular push for normal things and hard push to turn a peek into a regular push
0x0 11y ago
It's not a long press, because a long press will usually start the rearranging-your-app-icons operation. So this is a distinct operation. I wonder how well it will work for non-techies?
wozniacki 11y ago
You can dump this link in VLC and still catch the tail end of the feed. http://p.events-delivery.apple.com.edgesuite.net/1509pijnedfvopihbefvpijlkjb/m3u8/hls_mvp.m3u8 http://p.events-delivery.apple.com.edgesuite.net/1509pijnedf... [1] [1] From a previous HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10192594 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10192594
interpol_p 11y ago
It's a linear reaction to the amount of force you apply. So it seems to be implemented in a number of ways. They demonstrated contextual menus, as well as peaking (holding with a bit of force) where you could then push harder to "pop" into the content or relax to go back to what you were doing. It seems highly similar to the Watch — including the haptic feedback (which to me is an important part of what makes the interaction work on the watch).

themodelplumber 11y ago

Sometimes you don't want to have to worry about how long you're holding your finger down. It's much easier to control finger pressure than to guess how many seconds you have left before the screen changes fully into a new context.

dzhiurgis 11y ago
Looks like you'll have to be more precise when running, moving, etc. to prevent accidental force touches instead of taps.

bane 11y ago

it looks like it's a light touch for "peek", regular push for normal things and hard push to turn a peek into a regular push

0x0 11y ago

It's not a long press, because a long press will usually start the rearranging-your-app-icons operation. So this is a distinct operation. I wonder how well it will work for non-techies?

wozniacki 11y ago

You can dump this link in VLC and still catch the tail end of the feed. http://p.events-delivery.apple.com.edgesuite.net/1509pijnedfvopihbefvpijlkjb/m3u8/hls_mvp.m3u8 http://p.events-delivery.apple.com.edgesuite.net/1509pijnedf... [1] [1] From a previous HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10192594 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10192594

interpol_p 11y ago

It's a linear reaction to the amount of force you apply. So it seems to be implemented in a number of ways. They demonstrated contextual menus, as well as peaking (holding with a bit of force) where you could then push harder to "pop" into the content or relax to go back to what you were doing. It seems highly similar to the Watch — including the haptic feedback (which to me is an important part of what makes the interaction work on the watch).