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My thoughts: - Nothing unexpected really. When they did force touch on the Macbooks, we all knew it'd be coming to the phone and wireless trackpad, too. - The
by IkmoIkmo 11y ago
My thoughts:
- Nothing unexpected really. When they did force touch on the Macbooks, we all knew it'd be coming to the phone and wireless trackpad, too.
- The lack of force touch on the magic mouse means developers are less inclined to create any essential force touch functionality into their software as a substantial number of their users this generation of hardware may just have the non-force touch mouse only. Not a really big deal (tons of old Macs without force touch around anyway), but if they'd been able to put force touch into every magic mouse too then you'd be able to create software that relies on force touch in a few years.
- Trackpad feels a tiiiiny bit too large now. Not a big deal, a little redundant area is somehow comfortable and its for a desktop environment anyway. But just look at the pinch gestures, the hand in the video is shown pinching to full stretch and there's still area left to stretch even further.
- Can still see a lot of people complain about the mouse's ergonomics. At what price, is it really? We've got plenty of great mice to choose from. The notion there are fewer moving parts is an interesting design choice, but it's not exactly important in the way it is for say an internal combustion vs electric engine where you see differences in wear and tear and such. In my experience the lifetime of all my mice has been ridiculously. It's certainly a nice looking design, but a higher elevation fits better in my hand and there are plenty of mice that offer that, offer wireless, offer swiping gestures and rechargeable batteries.
Anyway, the tl;dr overal takeaway is that these upgrades make a lot of sense and I'd be more than happy to upgrade as an existing MM/TP user, but I'm not enticed to switch if I wasn't a MM1 / TP1 user to begin with.
Question to you all btw, have you seen anyone putting force touch into their software on a mac? I've literally used it 0 times in the past 6 months mostly because I don't use safari, but I don't see any developers jump in to provide any functionality, either yet.