Apple Unveils the iPad Pro

Re:Apple Unveils the iPad Pro by etchalon on Thursday September 10, 2015 @01:12AM (#10196232)

So 3D Touch is something Android has?

This is mostly a tongue-in-cheek comment, but the broader point is that of course Apple has "innovated" since the original iPhone, iPad, iWhatever. In some big ways, and in some small ways. But so have other players in the industry. Apple has borrowed some good ideas from them, just as they have borrowed good ideas from Apple.

However saying Apple hasn't innovated since those original announcements is so hilariously ludicrous.

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Re:Apple Unveils the iPad Pro by Thimothy on Thursday September 10, 2015 @04:01AM (#10196687)

Actually... It does. Huawei did a demo about it a few months ago.

http://www.androidauthority.com/huawei-mate-s-force-touch-ha...

It's okay to live inside a ecosystem, but don't pretend to know what happens outside it.

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Re:Apple Unveils the iPad Pro by mattkevan on Thursday September 10, 2015 @06:02AM (#10197098)

There's a world of difference between a demo – and an 'very limited indeed' implementation, and a flagship feature supported at a deep level by the OS.

Force touch on Android will never get anywhere until it's specifically supported by Google (who unless I'm mistaken, haven't included it in M), and the install rate is high enough to make it worthwhile. I'm sure more OEMs will include it, but individually they won't have the clout to make it go anywhere.

It's a bit like the argument around NFC. My Nexus 6 has it, but until M is released with Google Pay, it's pretty much useless. Apple waited until they had a compelling use-case, and only then included it. I would not be surprised if the use of NFC is far higher on iOS than Android.

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Re:Apple Unveils the iPad Pro by jhasse on Saturday September 12, 2015 @01:57PM (#10208745)

I have NFC (Galaxy S4) and never used it to pay, still would miss it. You can easily send links or photos, I did this a while back with a friend who has a SONY Z3 and it worked flawlessly. Also I can pair my wireless headset with my phone using NFC.

I can use Google Pay in the future with my over 2 years old device. Apple users have to buy a new iPhone for that.

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Re:Apple Unveils the iPad Pro by etchalon on Thursday September 10, 2015 @04:53AM (#10196872)

Huawei's version is not Force Touch, as Apple has defined it. It's a pressure sensitive display, with no haptic. It's about as precise as MotionEvent.getPressure from what I've seen (which isn't really precise if you've used that API).

Basically, they saw the Apple Watch, and kinda cribbed together a rough copy of it, and jammed it into a phone.

Shocking, I know, as Android OEM hardware hacks are always done as cohesive, full-thought implementations.

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Re:Apple Unveils the iPad Pro by TempestNova on Friday September 11, 2015 @03:06PM (#10205580)

Huawei did a demo few months ago?

I didn't know IFA 2015 was few months ago.

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Re:Apple Unveils the iPad Pro by mamon on Thursday September 10, 2015 @11:55AM (#10198765)

3D Touch is just a gadget, not a feature that would help Apple raise their sales. Bigger screens were such selling point, so was NFC support, so was swipe keyboard in AppStore - and all those were added by Apple only after they became popular in Android phones. Of course Apple made some improvements when adopting them, but it seems that they are using Android phone owners as their beta testers :)

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