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Is Force Touch Trackpad Apple's answer to touch screen Windows laptops?
Posted on 3/24/15 at 12:27 pm
Posted on 3/24/15 at 12:27 pm
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Following its March 9 media event where it introduced "Force Touch" trackpad technology for the new 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro and upcoming 12-inch MacBook, Apple opened up the feature to third-party developers by delivering developer APIs starting with the third beta of OS X 10.10.3. The APIs will allow developers to support the ability of Force Touch trackpads to sense multiple levels of pressure and perform different actions depending on how hard the trackpad is being pressed.
Apple has already taken steps to build Force Touch support into its own apps, as outlined in a support document. At the simplest level, the new Force Touch trackpads support a new "Force click" functionality, which allows a user to click on an item and then press a bit harder to activate a secondary function such as pulling up Dictionary or Wikipedia entires on selected text in Mail or Safari, a map preview when selecting an address, or Quick Look previews of files when selecting icons.
Beyond the single-level Force click, the new Force Touch trackpad also supports more advanced features through sensing multiple levels of pressure, allowing users to accelerate zooming in and out of maps or vary the speed of fast forward and rewind in QuickTime and iMovie. iMovie also supports "bumpy pixels" in which the trackpad gives subtle vibrational feedback during the editing process to let the user know when the end of a dragged clip has been reached or when cropped clips are in proper alignment.
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Write and press and draw on the trackpad and leave the screen alone? Is this the direction Apple is heading towards to combat the touch friendly designs of Windows 8 and 10? After all Apple came out and said they thought reaching out and touching the screen on a laptop using your fingers was bad ergonomics, so I guess since they can't back track now, they need to come up with a different solution.
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Posted on 3/24/15 at 12:31 pm to Street Hawk
I have it on my new macbook pro. It's awesome. Much better than trying to touch the screen of a laptop. It's definitely the answer to touchscreens on a PC and it works much better overall.
Posted on 3/24/15 at 12:33 pm to Street Hawk
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After all Apple came out and said they thought reaching out and touching the screen on a laptop using your fingers was bad ergonomics,
That's cause it is.
Posted on 3/24/15 at 12:40 pm to Street Hawk
So now Apple is telling me what bad ergonomics is? What a bunch of dickheads!
Posted on 3/24/15 at 12:50 pm to Street Hawk
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After all Apple came out and said they thought reaching out and touching the screen on a laptop using your fingers was bad ergonomics, so I guess since they can't back track now, they need to come up with a different solution.
I actually agree with gman on this one. The convertible laptop/tablet hybrids are one thing, but this trend of traditional clamshell laptops with touch screens using trackpad technology that hasn't improved in a decade has got to stop. If my arm has to cross over a keyboard to touch a screen, I don't need to be touching a screen. Maybe Force Touch will ignite a trackpad war with other PC vendors.
Posted on 3/24/15 at 1:16 pm to ILikeLSUToo
When I switched from my Dell to my MacBook in 2009 the trackpad was night and day. I used to plug in a USB mouse on PC laptops. With the MacBook trackpad it felt so much faster than any mouse for most activities. Gaming being the big drawback with trackpads.
Apple really mastered the trackpad then, and the force touch could be a way to get closer to perfection.
The one thing that drove me nuts was that Lion and newer editions of OSX defaults the controls inverted from previous editions. The point was to make it more similar to smart phones, but it just feels awkward on a laptop.
Apple really mastered the trackpad then, and the force touch could be a way to get closer to perfection.
The one thing that drove me nuts was that Lion and newer editions of OSX defaults the controls inverted from previous editions. The point was to make it more similar to smart phones, but it just feels awkward on a laptop.
Posted on 3/24/15 at 5:20 pm to ILikeLSUToo
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I actually agree with gman on this one.
Posted on 3/24/15 at 5:23 pm to ILikeLSUToo
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I actually agree with gman on this one. The convertible laptop/tablet hybrids are one thing, but this trend of traditional clamshell laptops with touch screens using trackpad technology that hasn't improved in a decade has got to stop. If my arm has to cross over a keyboard to touch a screen, I don't need to be touching a screen. Maybe Force Touch will ignite a trackpad war with other PC vendors.
This. It's one thing to take my Surface off of the keyboard and use it as a tablet. Otherwise, it's a gimmick, and it offers very little. If there's no decent pen support or hybrid features, I see no reason to have touch.
Posted on 3/25/15 at 8:35 am to Street Hawk
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Is Force Touch Trackpad Apple's answer to touch screen Windows laptops?
I'm going to say no because I don't think Apple was ever trying to compete with touch screen laptops. Now, later this year when the iPad incorporates force touch it will be Apple's answer to the Surface's drawing capabilities.
That said, I really want to see what the hype is about on the Force Touch trackpads. Everything I've heard about them sound incredible and, dare I say, magical.
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