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Made it to 3 fingers and then couldn't advance as my phone interpreted a 3 finger swipe as a screenshot. I'm counting it as a win since I learned a new feature

Made it to 3 fingers and then couldn't advance as my phone interpreted a 3 finger swipe as a screenshot. I'm counting it as a win since I learned a new feature of my phone!

Tistron 3y ago
Had the same problem at first, but moving one finger before the others made it work. At four fingers my phone can't do it anymore. It seems that it can only detect 3 pressure points at a time.
- jmtucu 3y ago
  The same, my S23 doesn't recognise 4 touches.
  - MaxikCZ 3y ago
    Does it really not? I remember a lot of years back everyone was boasting how they can recognize 10 touches at the same time. Perhaps try an app, to see if the limitation comes from hardware or software? My Note9 is able to register at least 10 separate touches in Chwazi app (just tested). Seems weird a newer phone in the basically same line would downgrade to three.
    - TeMPOraL 3y ago
      > Seems weird a newer phone in the basically same line would downgrade to three. You have data scientists busy analyzing telemetry all the time. It's conceivable someone figured "the data shows" most people don't even use 3 fingers at a time, much less 5+, so why not simplify the screen driver / hardware to save costs (or trade it for some improvement elsewhere)... Newer phones are more optimized than older ones. On the market, optimized doesn't mean better.
    - Tistron 3y ago
      Found out that if you activate 3-finger touch for screenshot, that disables the phone's ability to register more than 3 touch points. With that disabled I can now play the game again (and after several 4-fingered ones I'm now stuck at a 3-finger one)
      - Tistron 3y ago
        It was the last one, and I managed. Quite fun game!
  - Culonavirus 3y ago
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fsckboy 3y ago
quit at 2 fingers because, why am i doing this? (i've actually commented before on HN about my dislike of all the sliders in the iOS UI, what an annoyingly difficult specialized skill to have to say up on just to hit what should be very fast and simple radio buttons or checkboxes)
- xp84 3y ago
  The slider-style switches are dumb eye candy, I agree, but you don’t have to treat them as such, they toggle when tapped. My big annoyance is how these massive balls of JavaScript and images and crap have infected UIs of web apps everywhere, as though people couldn’t understand a checkbox or something. Silly “UI designer” fad, and quite pathetic for a designer really, to just copy whatever Apple did.
  - kristopolous 3y ago
    You could probably run a successful "ai design" scam where you ask your mark a bunch of psychographic details about the customer and product, then ask them for their website url. You discard all the psychographic data and blindly apply let's call "apple-ify.css" where you change the fonts, colors and contrast to just knockoff apple and then charge something like $499 for it with an elaborate pitch using buzzwords about machine learning and big data on how you're doing the latest in analysis driven design with cutting edge AI. Meanwhile it's just a stupid static css file. It'd probably work frighteningly well
    - janandonly 3y ago
      I don’t think it would work if it were so unbelievably cheap as this.

Made it to 3 fingers and then couldn't advance as my phone interpreted a 3 finger swipe as a screenshot. I'm counting it as a win since I learned a new feature of my phone!

Tistron 3y ago

Had the same problem at first, but moving one finger before the others made it work. At four fingers my phone can't do it anymore. It seems that it can only detect 3 pressure points at a time.

jmtucu 3y ago
The same, my S23 doesn't recognise 4 touches.
- MaxikCZ 3y ago
  Does it really not? I remember a lot of years back everyone was boasting how they can recognize 10 touches at the same time. Perhaps try an app, to see if the limitation comes from hardware or software? My Note9 is able to register at least 10 separate touches in Chwazi app (just tested). Seems weird a newer phone in the basically same line would downgrade to three.
  - TeMPOraL 3y ago
    > Seems weird a newer phone in the basically same line would downgrade to three. You have data scientists busy analyzing telemetry all the time. It's conceivable someone figured "the data shows" most people don't even use 3 fingers at a time, much less 5+, so why not simplify the screen driver / hardware to save costs (or trade it for some improvement elsewhere)... Newer phones are more optimized than older ones. On the market, optimized doesn't mean better.
  - Tistron 3y ago
    Found out that if you activate 3-finger touch for screenshot, that disables the phone's ability to register more than 3 touch points. With that disabled I can now play the game again (and after several 4-fingered ones I'm now stuck at a 3-finger one)
    - Tistron 3y ago
      It was the last one, and I managed. Quite fun game!
- Culonavirus 3y ago
  [dead]

fsckboy 3y ago

quit at 2 fingers because, why am i doing this? (i've actually commented before on HN about my dislike of all the sliders in the iOS UI, what an annoyingly difficult specialized skill to have to say up on just to hit what should be very fast and simple radio buttons or checkboxes)

xp84 3y ago
The slider-style switches are dumb eye candy, I agree, but you don’t have to treat them as such, they toggle when tapped. My big annoyance is how these massive balls of JavaScript and images and crap have infected UIs of web apps everywhere, as though people couldn’t understand a checkbox or something. Silly “UI designer” fad, and quite pathetic for a designer really, to just copy whatever Apple did.
- kristopolous 3y ago
  You could probably run a successful "ai design" scam where you ask your mark a bunch of psychographic details about the customer and product, then ask them for their website url. You discard all the psychographic data and blindly apply let's call "apple-ify.css" where you change the fonts, colors and contrast to just knockoff apple and then charge something like $499 for it with an elaborate pitch using buzzwords about machine learning and big data on how you're doing the latest in analysis driven design with cutting edge AI. Meanwhile it's just a stupid static css file. It'd probably work frighteningly well
  - janandonly 3y ago
    I don’t think it would work if it were so unbelievably cheap as this.