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[Cleverboy]

Re: touch. Marketing animations and ivory tower wikipedias are nothing compared to thirty years experience with touch devices.

Sometimes "30 years experience" tends to make one jaded and overly contrarian though. I used to work with someone in IT whose observations were never wrong, but weren't necessarily in service of determining the truth either.

As I commented before, I've seen people try to push harder many times on capacitive screens, because something about them just doesn't register well, and they're used to trying harder on resistive types. It's a natural human response when a light touch doesn't work. It doesn't imply anything.

Possibly. But why else wouldn't it work? Considering this person was said to be "in the know" and not some random individual with 10 minutes of usage and misunderstandings under their belt, either way, you're agreeing that this person appears to be a somewhat unreliable reviewer, so I think we're on the same page in the end. Flawed insight. If you're implying otherwise, I think you're falling into the often addictive role of devil's advocate, with little true conviction or solution save to point out the merest possibility of an alternative conclusion.

~ CB

 

[kdarling]

Sometimes "30 years experience" tends to make one jaded and overly contrarian though.

Ha! Yes, sometimes that's true.

Possibly. But why else wouldn't it work? Considering this person was said to be "in the know" and not some random individual with 10 minutes of usage and misunderstandings under their belt, either way, you're agreeing that this person appears to be a somewhat unreliable reviewer, so I think we're on the same page in the end.

More or less. I'm saying that very few people have had extensive experience with capacitive touch screens. There are various reasons they don't work with some people. And if it doesn't work well for them, they can only respond within their own experience. So if they say they had to "press harder", it's just what seemed to work for them.

We found that about 1 in 20 had a little trouble, but just needed to be trained to touch differently. Perhaps 1 in 100 just couldn't use that type of screen at all.

Regards, Kev

 

[Troyte83]

hey there will be bugs on the iPhone, i mean Steve Jobs is still human

 

[surferfromuk]

Some guy called Andres called it a bogus article as the description was of a 'pressure sensitive' driven touch screen instead of a 'proximity capacitance' driven touch screen which requires no pressure!!..

That and the comments suggesting Apple are 'hyping' this producy by - wait for it - advertising - give you all you need to know about 'media objectivity' where the iphone is concerned.

Of course if I was equally hysterical I'd suggest that Engadert's current 'commenting' readers may all be in the employ of Nokia, Samsung, Motorola, Microsoft, Palm, T-mobile, Verizon, etc etc - I reckon including friends and family that group alone could weigh in about a million people with a grudge against iphone being a success!!

You know Apple never really was a holy cause but it's bloody becoming one just because of hte venomous opposition to a product that's so obviously unlike ANYTHING that exists and in anyone's honest heart looks insanely great.

 

[AppleIntelRock]

Sheesh. Sounds like they don't like teh iFone™

I'm taking what they say with a grain of salt, especially considering one of the things Walt said he WAS surprised about was the keyboard.