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> Steve Jobs was heavily against hidden functionality (sorry there is a word for it I can't remember off the top of my head). It's why Macs had one-button mice

> Steve Jobs was heavily against hidden functionality (sorry there is a word for it I can't remember off the top of my head). It's why Macs had one-button mice for so long. That doesn't make sense at all to me: The right click button on a mouse is visible. The Mac way of hiding it behind the ctrl key was non-discoverable and non-obvious to me.

bb88 8y ago
Or under pull down menus... or context menus... or... Force touch just seems like a different form of right mouse clicking.
- submeta 8y ago
  I know a few people who - even after trying - can't make "force touch" work properly. I love it and try to show them. But they can't seem to make the effort to learn it.
  - Piskvorrr 8y ago
    Are you saying they are...holding it wrong?
  - dublin 8y ago
    I know at quite a few people that have not upgraded their iPhone 6-vintage phones simply because they found 3D/force Touch to be a really significantly negative feature, and just flat don't want it.
eridius 8y ago
Every single action that was available in the contextual menu (hidden "behind the ctrl key") was supposed to be available elsewhere as well, typically as an actual app menu item.
coldtea 8y ago
The idea wasn't to hide or show the context menu -- but to have those actions NOT need the context menu. E.g. to delete you didn't need to "right click, send to trash". You dragged the item to the trashcan.
danellis 8y ago
> sorry there is a word for it You're probably thinking of either discoverability or affordance.