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Post by uo21tp5hoyg »

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.

sure, but only because HN is mostly men working in tech. these types of features are far more popular among women. (not all women of course)

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Post by iamacyborg »

uo21tp5hoyg wrote: post #81
hombre_fatal wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

sure, but only because HN is mostly men working in tech. these types of features are far more popular among women. (not all women of course)

Citation needed

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Post by uo21tp5hoyg »

iamacyborg wrote: post #82
uo21tp5hoyg wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

sure, but only because HN is mostly men working in tech. these types of features are far more popular among women. (not all women of course)

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 eastern thing but given Huawei is a Chinese company I would bet it's a very popular feature for the phone.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakao

2. https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbescontentmarketing/2019/05/...

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Post by mikepurvis »

Eater_of_food wrote: post #20
max0563 wrote: post #17

This would be a fun game with some UX improvements. It's extremely frustrating when the reason I can't finish a puzzle is because my finger slipped off the line and not because I just don't know the solution. I stopped playing because of how frustrating that was.

It's a dexterity game. Think of it like Jenga, even if you know which block to pull out, the tower can still fall if you don't do it cleanly. At least with this you don't need to rebuild the whole tower!

Twister is the metaphor for me. I had to lock my orientation so that I could rotate the phone around to untie some of two and three finger ones.

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Post by wizofaus »

operator-name wrote: post #46

This is pretty fun! It seems the starting position of your fingers is important, as is the ability to rotate the device. Interesting to see how many mobile HN users there are too.

Technically you don't need to rotate the device (I did it with my touchscreen-enabled laptop), but you will have to get out of your chair!

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Post by nabakin »

yccs27 wrote: post #21
justin_oaks wrote: post #7

How far does it go? I hit some really hard ones with 3 fingers. I think my phone gets confused if my fingers are too close to each other, which makes it especially difficult. This also feels like playing a game of Operation [1]. The author just needs to add an annoying buzzer sound whenever you fail. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_(game)

It goes up to 4 fingers, and the last one is 3 fingers again but basically impossible without switching fingers. Edit: nvm its possible without cheating

The hardest one for me was the 4 fingered puzzle where you had to move all 4 from one side of the screen to the other in a line, except the lines overlapped with the neighbors multiple times.

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Post by nabakin »

flexagoon wrote: post #77

Great game! Though I'm not sure if I solved the last level in the way it was intended to be solved - I wouldn't have been able to do it the way I did it if my fingers were like half a cm shorter

I solved it with some creative initial positioning. Thumb and index of one hand on the curved and middle straight line and my other hand index going between the two to reach the start of the other curved line

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Post by nabakin »

grishka wrote: post #32

Doesn't work well on phones though, you really need a tablet. When you get to 4 fingers, it starts randomly losing track of a finger or two when fingers get close to each other. I tried two different Android phones and an iPhone.

Yeah phones are hard mode but still possible. I did it on a 5 inch screen
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