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Agreed. If I'm so close to a phone, why would I swipe in the air? I also believe that making those Soli actions requires more muscle energy compared to tapping

• sangnoir 7y ago
  > If I'm so close to a phone, why would I swipe in the air? Because you don't want to extract it from your backpack/purst first? Or you are lying in the dark avoiding turning the backlight on but you also badly want to skip that terrible song you hate... edit: or you're presenting and using your phone on the podium as a remote without breaking eye contact/physically fiddling with the phone/laptop.
  • ckosidows 7y ago
    Or to keep more smudges off your phone and to not get as many germs on it throughout the day. These are minor, but not negligible. My phone gets very smudged up throughout the day.
  • Allower 7y ago
    I don't think it will work with your phone in your pocket or backpack.. and typically your headphones have controls for volume, skip, back, play/pause, so not really compelling on that front. For presentations a small remote control is superior in every way. The only use case I can see is cooking, and there are probably better solutions (e.g. better UI design).
• rtkwe 7y ago
  "Requires more muscle energy" seems like such a weird metric to base design decisions around but if we start the phone in similar states for both, ie laying on a table, I have a hard time believing they're going to be that different.
  • andreygrehov 7y ago
    Raise your hand and try to make 10-20 swipes. You will start feeling pressure in your wrist. In contrast, you can swipe for hours holding the phone in your hand.