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Why would Apple keep hardware that most people didn't know about and didn't use?
I do miss the headphone jack, but clearly Apple is not bringing that back.
I just always use that long press on the space bar to move the cursor.
3D Touch is interesting from a technical point of view but it makes manufacture more complex and using the phone more complicated than it needs to be. I was always activating it by accident.
When it was first announced I was excited that haptic feedback would allow us to feel the edges of the virtual keyboard keys and improve typing accuracy. That's not what we got and I've found very little utility in the current implementation sadly.
It also makes it harder to get the screen replaced. Since I don't live near an Apple Store that's important to me. I want to be able to pop into a local locksmith and get them to change a broken screen while I wait. The alternative is either a long drive or sending the phone away for days on end.
If Apple really wanted to impress me they would replace the dictation key on the keyboard which I regularly trigger by accident with something useful like an Undo button. I have never used dictation so this is just a daily irritation to me.
Was it earphones. I used to love my iPhone for music. I've a really nice set of noise cancelling headphones. Now I have a dongle (that always goes missing). I almost never listen to music with my iPhone anymore.
3d touch was incredibly frustrating because there was both long touch and hard touch and they both feel like similar actions but did different things. I think the world is better off without it adding on yet another way to hide potential user actions behind impossible to guess and subtle gestures.
Kinda unfortunate that phones have made basic workflow gestures like this so obscure. Let's not even get into how "undo" is accessed by shaking the whole device
[1] Since iOS 13, 2019 [2] https://www.macworld.com/article/233056/ios-13-and-ipados-13...