“As regular readers will know, it took a little while for the Apple Watch to really grow on me,” Ben Lovejoy writes for 9to5Mac. “But even back when I wasn’t convinced I needed a smartwatch, I still had to admire the design.”
“And the Digital Crown was a large part of how Apple got the smartwatch right when others hadn’t yet cracked it,” Lovejoy writes. “A fundamental problem with a small touchscreen is that touching it covers up much of the content. The Digital Crown overcomes that, allowing us to scroll content without our thumb getting in the way.”
“But while today’s iPhone screens may be larger than they used to be, they are still pretty small in the scheme of things,” Lovejoy writes. “Scrolling with a thumb still covers up a chunk of the content. Worse, it’s easy to accidentally tap on targets accidentally including ads. There have been numerous occasions since using Apple Watch when my thumb started absent-mindedly reaching for the non-existent Digital Crown on my iPhone.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Even more than reaching for a nonexistent Digital Crown, for months now we’ve been attempting to Force Touch our iPhones to no avail! Here’s hoping iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus deliver Force Touch!
SEE ALSO:
Revealed: How Force Touch works and feels in Apple’s next-gen iPhone 6s – August 10, 2015
Apple’s Force Touch: The future of mobile interfaces – August 4, 2015
Why Force Touch on the iPhone will be awesome – July 29, 2015
Apple’s Force Touch iPhone 6s to be major differentiator, put rivals at further disadvantage – July 6, 2015
Apple assemblers begin making next-gen iPhones with Force Touch – June 27, 2015
Analyst: Apple’s ‘iPhone 6s’ to feature stronger 7000 series aluminum, slightly thicker for Force Touch – June 17, 2015
Apple’s new Force Touch patent application reveals stylus, virtual paint brush, 3D buttons interactions – May 28, 2015
Apple’s forthcoming iOS 9 supports ‘iPhone 6s’ Force Touch – May 26, 2015
Apple patent application reveals work on Force Touch for iOS devices and more – March 5, 2015
Force Touch rumored to arrive exclusively on ‘iPhone 6s Plus’ – April 2, 2015
Apple’s next-gen iPhone 6s, iPhone 6s Plus to feature Force Touch – February 28, 2015
Assimilated? That sounds like it has something to do with the Borg.
Yes, that’s it. Blame the inanimate object for your rash behavior. I would pity you but you seemed resigned to continue to be subservient to your wrist bound overlord. Happy days to you as you progress down the road of conspicuous consumerism and irrationality.
Freddy, you should never write of “irrationality” when you are nothing but a troll. A troll is by definition irrational.
I heard a noise, a squeak.
An impotent squeak.
Wowww! Two posts on the squeak theme! Sure showed him there, Fred.
Whats wrong with you?
When was your last checkup ?
I rarely use the digital crown, finding that dragging the screen works fine.
Why? The digital crown was created to address the annoyance of scrolling on a smaller screen. iPhone doesn’t have that problem.
What? That would be weird… 🙂 Didn’t really old BlackBerry devices have a scroll wheel on the side, not as a “crown” but rotating on a perpendicular axis?
I do the Force Touch thing too.
I try swiping with my finger on the screen on my wife’s MBP. I’m used to my iPad mini Retina.
Wear my watch every day. But I rarely use the crown.
I will try using it some more, but I find my finger touching the screen works just fine.
Same for me. I rarely use the crown. I wear my watch every day, but really, I don’t even use it for much other than as a watch and to get notifications. It’s not much more than a glorified activity tracker to me at this point. I rarely use any of the apps other than the ones I already have setup in Glances, so the Digital Crown hasn’t exactly changed my life forever.
I love force tough, but could do without the crown. I only use it when I have to.
Globe digital assimilated