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This has been present since iOS 10, and on iPhones with force touch you can force touch the keyboard anywhere and it'll turn into a trackpad.
Somehow on iOS 12 my iPhone 6s only works on Spacebar, not anywhere on the Keyboard.
This direction gives me huge hope we'll soon see mouse support for iPad. It's the greatest handicap to doing productive work, particularly text editing.
Apple has been rapidly improving the power of its processors in iOS devices. At the same time, it has been promoting privacy. Now it’s giving developers an incentive to develop apps for iOS that are friendly to desktop users. And Apple hasn’t been giving Macbooks much attention lately. This tells me Apple plans an iOS desktop mode. You could pair a monitor, keyboard, and mouse with your phone and work at a desk. All…
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This has been present since iOS 10, and on iPhones with force touch you can force touch the keyboard anywhere and it'll turn into a trackpad.
Wow there IS a use for force touch!
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If this happens, I might try using only an iPad as my development machine. All I need are some cloud machines with Docker, SSH and maybe Cloud9/Che in some cases (and a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse, of course).
I'd totally rely on my Desktop for any serious work, and use such a mythical iPad as the mobile machine I can use to SSH into servers, VNC into desktop, run simple editors, email etc. But, I don't think we're going to see that...
This direction gives me huge hope we'll soon see mouse support for iPad. It's the greatest handicap to doing productive work, particularly text editing.
I think we're very close. You can already tap and hold on the spacebar in iOS 12 and it turns into a trackpad like control for moving the cursor in textfields.
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I think we're very close. You can already tap and hold on the spacebar in iOS 12 and it turns into a trackpad like control for moving the cursor in textfields.
This has been present since iOS 10, and on iPhones with force touch you can force touch the keyboard anywhere and it'll turn into a trackpad.
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Force Touch is very useful; the only issue with it is that it’s not discoverable.
Neither was right clicking in Windows 95, but that didn't stop us from finding places where it was useful and adopting it.
You only discover force touch if you mistakenly use too much force at the right time and place, which isn't an everyday occurrence. Where as a right click function could be discovered by clicking randomly with the right button which was obviously put there with purpose.
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Neither was right clicking in Windows 95, but that didn't stop us from finding places where it was useful and adopting it.
A mouse (unless Apple made it) has visible buttons. A touch screen has no indications that it can be force touched. You only discover force touch if you mistakenly use too much force at the right time and place, which isn't an everyday occurrence. Where as a right click function could be discovered by clicking randomly with the right button which was obviously put there with purpose.
But option and force touch.. its unclear when its applicable, what it’ll get you, if it even went through and for option, where the resulting button even is
This direction gives me huge hope we'll soon see mouse support for iPad. It's the greatest handicap to doing productive work, particularly text editing.