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Re:What was it like to be a software engineer at NeXT? by acqq on Monday July 23, 2018 @05:44AM (#17591604)
I know what to think, as I lived at the times before iPhone too. If nothing else, iPhone is an abolute proof of brilliancy of Jobs’ product decisions. So from the product/technical perspective, there was nothing comparable to be part of. But from a perspective of somebody not in his twenties anymore, I surely would’t continuously work under the described pressure. Everybody has to decide about his own limits and what is an acceptable amoumt of work.
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Re:What was it like to be a software engineer at NeXT? by Fnoord on Monday July 23, 2018 @06:07AM (#17591687)
The iPhone was just the first successful, always-on, capacitive touch device. The market was largely focussing on resistive touch devices which Jobs successfully identified was the wrong way (though the stylus did keep your screen clean!).
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Re:What was it like to be a software engineer at NeXT? by sah2ed on Monday July 23, 2018 @06:36AM (#17591779)
Exactly. Those little details, as insignificant as they seem, can magnify into an enormous difference in failure situations.

For instance, even after getting a hairline crack on my iPhone, I haven't bothered to replace the screen because I can use the device just fine, in most cases.

Contrast that with my 4yr-old Nexus 7[0] device which got a hairline crack about 1.5months ago, and the device is completely unusable, because of the design decision to use a resistive touch screen!

[0] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00DVFLJKQ/

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Re:What was it like to be a software engineer at NeXT? by Stratoscope on Monday July 23, 2018 @09:47AM (#17592685)
The Nexus 7 has a capacitive touchscreen, not resistive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nexus_7_(2013)

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Re:What was it like to be a software engineer at NeXT? by sah2ed on Monday July 23, 2018 @12:55PM (#17593991)
Prior to the crack, the tablet responded to touch gestures differently than my iPhone -- I have to re-apply pressure for gestures to register sometimes. Also, I am unable to register tap gestures on the device with sweaty palms unlike on the iPhone, so I just assumed Asus used a resistive touch screen.

Anyway, the digitizer/touch screen build quality is brittle as plently of people have reported similar usage difficulty from hairline breakages [0].

Thanks for the correction though.

[0] https://forums.androidcentral.com/google-nexus-7-2013-rootin...

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