Genuine question.

I know they were the scrappy startup doing different cool things. But, what are the most major innovative things that they introduced, improved or just implemented that either revolutionized, improved or spurred change?

I am aware of the possibility of both fanboys and haters just duking it out below. But there’s always that one guy who has a fkn well-formatted paragraph of gold. I await that guy.

  • pycorax@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Force Touch is something I am not sure that was ever done outside ~the Mac~ Apple. I still love how the trackpad isn’t really a click, but a haptic tap that can occur at a configurable pressure, and does not occur at all when the device is powered off.

    The recent Surface laptop also use haptic trackpads. That said I feel like I’m in the small minority that absolute hates force touch which is a real shame because the pre-force touch trackpads was the best trackpads anyone has ever made. I can definitely feel the lack of movement when I use a force touch trackpad and it feels extremely uncomfortable to me. So much that a Macbook is completely unusable without a mouse for me.

      • pycorax@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        6 months ago

        I mean the physical movement of the trackpad. Traditional non haptic trackpads physically get pushed down when you click on them.

        • Aatube@kbin.social
          1·
          6 months ago

          Ah, you mean that kind of haptic. Yeah I hate these too, but note that force touch and getting pushed down when clicking are not really exclusionary.