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friend_of_satan@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Target display mode let you plug another computer into your iMac, hit a key sequence, and use your iMac as an external display.

Target disk mode let you hold a key sequence at boot and use your Mac like an external hard disk.

Force Touch is something I am not sure that was ever done outside the Mac. 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.

LiDAR in a consumer device was unheard of when it came out with the iPad Pro. At the time it came out, I was working in a lab where we used $160k velodyne LiDAR devices. To have one in a $1k tablet was amazing.

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Aatube@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Force Touch was done outside the Mac.
They added it to iPhone 6S then removed it after iPhone 8.

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GeekFTW@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
As someone who used to work for Applecare, TDM was a bit of a lifesaver on some calls!

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- reddig33@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  It’s actually been around since the PowerBook — where it was called scsi disk mode.
  
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pycorax@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨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.

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- Aatube@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Can’t you bump mouse sensitivity?
  
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  - pycorax@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I mean the physical movement of the trackpad. Traditional non haptic trackpads physically get pushed down when you click on them.
    
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    Aatube@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨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.
    
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