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Apple used to put speakers in their ipods just so there was a click when you used the scroll wheel, so I wouldn't put it past them to have some sort of haptic i

Apple used to put speakers in their ipods just so there was a click when you used the scroll wheel, so I wouldn't put it past them to have some sort of haptic imitation of ticking that 99.999% of people will never notice or feel. :)

jodrellblank 10y ago
Apple put an electromagnet in their newer laptop trackpads so they click when you press them, even though they can't move and aren't buttons.
- disordinary 10y ago
  Yeah, and it's amazing how realistic it feels.
  - 72deluxe 10y ago
    I find the clicking on my MBP 2012 really irritating - I much prefer tap to click. Do others really spend the entire day noisily clicking around to do stuff? Weirdly the tap to click stops working after connecting to the MacBook using VNC, even though if you open System Preferences and look at the touchpad options, it believes it is enabled with tap-to-click. They've said it is fixed about 10 times now - not sure if it is. Must retest.
    - milankragujevic 10y ago
      You might want to try NoMachine, it works on Linux, macOS and Windows. It's pretty fast, but the picture quality isn't that good because it uses video compression (VP8) instead of bitmaps.
    - macintux 10y ago
      I've never understood why anyone doesn't use tap to click on Apple trackpads. Physical or not, the full click is such a flow interruption for me it drives me crazy when I have to do it (fortunately, effectively never). There was a viral Flash(?) game a few years ago involving a frog sticking out its tongue to trap insects; the catch for the game was that it had no help, everything in the UI was discoverable, but barely. Unless, of course, you used tap to click, which wasn't registered by the game. I spent 5 minutes trying to play before deciding the whole thing must be a hoax.
  - favorited 10y ago
    I use it every day, and until reading this thread I didn't even realize it wasn't mechanical...
rimantas 10y ago
on iPhone 7 you get the haptic feedback when e.g. scrolling the picker items. I think 100% of users notice that.

jodrellblank 10y ago

Apple put an electromagnet in their newer laptop trackpads so they click when you press them, even though they can't move and aren't buttons.

disordinary 10y ago
Yeah, and it's amazing how realistic it feels.
- 72deluxe 10y ago
  I find the clicking on my MBP 2012 really irritating - I much prefer tap to click. Do others really spend the entire day noisily clicking around to do stuff? Weirdly the tap to click stops working after connecting to the MacBook using VNC, even though if you open System Preferences and look at the touchpad options, it believes it is enabled with tap-to-click. They've said it is fixed about 10 times now - not sure if it is. Must retest.
  - milankragujevic 10y ago
    You might want to try NoMachine, it works on Linux, macOS and Windows. It's pretty fast, but the picture quality isn't that good because it uses video compression (VP8) instead of bitmaps.
  - macintux 10y ago
    I've never understood why anyone doesn't use tap to click on Apple trackpads. Physical or not, the full click is such a flow interruption for me it drives me crazy when I have to do it (fortunately, effectively never). There was a viral Flash(?) game a few years ago involving a frog sticking out its tongue to trap insects; the catch for the game was that it had no help, everything in the UI was discoverable, but barely. Unless, of course, you used tap to click, which wasn't registered by the game. I spent 5 minutes trying to play before deciding the whole thing must be a hoax.
- favorited 10y ago
  I use it every day, and until reading this thread I didn't even realize it wasn't mechanical...

rimantas 10y ago

on iPhone 7 you get the haptic feedback when e.g. scrolling the picker items. I think 100% of users notice that.