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Re: Slide to Unlock

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Post by witchesindublin »

uo21tp5hoyg wrote: post #84
iamacyborg wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Citation needed

I can't provide a direct citation but I worked on image detection shopping for Kakao[1] and can say from personal observation that at least in Korea these features are far more popular (and ridiculously profitable) among women. According to Forbes women drive 70-80% of all consumer purchasing decisions in the US[2] so I can't imagine it's that rare there either, but I could be wrong and this could be an entirely east…

But South Korea is a much more gender-divided country where women go shopping and men go shooting.

Re: Slide to Unlock

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Post by CharlesHorsey »

xg15 wrote: post #37

I think that's the first nontrivial use of multitouch that I have seen in the wild (i.e. that is not basic "pinch to zoom" stuff). Really cool!

If you like this, there’s a great early iPhone game called Eliss with similar finger twisting multitouch. There’s an Android version now too.

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Post by j6ng4n »

LeoNatan25 wrote: post #96

I changed the user agent of the Mac Safari to be that of iOS, and changed the window size to be in portrait, yet it still does knows it’s not a mobile device. How does it know?

I checked the slide.js and it uses `navigator["maxTouchPoints"]`.

Also in the code: if you want to see all the levels without touch, add ?debug=1 to the URL and use the spacebar to advance.

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Post by _yb2s »

hombre_fatal wrote: post #78
Phelinofist wrote: post #73

This helped me to find out that my Huawei phone had "AI Touch" enabled. That apparently is a feature to touch any image with two fingers and the super smart AI finds out what is shown in the picture and where to buy it. Goes without saying that I immediately disabled this. /shrug

Amazing. That’s a feature you’d expect at the top of an HN brainstorm for comically bad, far fetched phone ideas.

The next version: When you touch an item in a photo you automatically buy it. There is supposedly a way to see that this is happening and cancel it, but that part of the interface isn't intuitive and attempts to cancel more often result in additional purchases.

This cannot be turned off, and the new phone can't be used in the first place until you set up credit card billing. It also seems to trigger "automatically" and "by accident" very frequently.

Re: Slide to Unlock

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Post by uo21tp5hoyg »

witchesindublin wrote: post #101
uo21tp5hoyg wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can't provide a direct citation but I worked on image detection shopping for Kakao[1] and can say from personal observation that at least in Korea these features are far more popular (and ridiculously profitable) among women. According to Forbes women drive 70-80% of all consumer purchasing decisions in the US[2] so I can't imagine it's that rare there either, but I could be wrong and this could be an entirely east…

But South Korea is a much more gender-divided country where women go shopping and men go shooting.

Hence the inclusion of the statistics for the United States also.
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