The horse this author decided to whip in support of his cause célèbre is 3D Touch. Perhaps you could argue mobile usability is getting worse but 3D Touch is hardly a good example to pick.
Comparing 3D Touch to adding a 'right-mouse button' is at best a faulty comparison. 3D Touch does not replace already-learned interactions; it does not require the user to learn something new. It simply adds new ways of interacting for people that know its there or those that discover it by accident.
How can that be making usability worse?
The beauty of mobile devices is there are so many ways to interact with a touchscreen in an intuitive way, the complexities are easier to hide. Apple have added yet another way, but it is entirely optional.
Perhaps the author would care to explain how if usability on mobile is so bad, how does my 2 1/2 year-old intuitively and effortlessly navigate children's programs on an iPad without any instruction at all? She'd need to be at least double her age in order to do the same thing with a mouse and keyboard.
For those using iOS in the enterprise and worried about data leakage, this sort of thing should give you pause.
This sort of thing is difficult to detect in the AppStore Review process so apps that may appear benign could quite easily use this method to try to steal sensitive information with little risk of detection.
We've been lobbying Apple for a while now to improve the controls around clipboard data; specifically to allow us a policy that prevents prevents personal / unmanaged apps from seeing data that was copied from enterprise / managed apps. It might not solve the personal privacy issues but would significantly reduce this as a risk for corporate data.
Why do you assume the product is no good simply because they sold out?
I prefer to look at as they simply didn't have deep enough pockets to go up against the likes of Sony and no doubt Microsoft and Valve in the near future. Being acquired by a giant like Facebook - as distasteful as it may seem at the outset - gives them the capital they need to execute on their vision and not have to worry so much about being buried by the gaming titans.
This was a strategic play to keep Oculus alive, not to kill it dead.
Assuming someone did steal your phone and look for prints, they would need to know which print to lift and that it's enrolled with Touch ID. After they, they only get 5 goes to be successful before the phone insists on your passcode.
CCC made it look easy but I bet it didn't work for them first try or even 5th try...
Just installed Win 8 in Parallels on an rMBP and I have to be honest, I don't hate it as much as when I tried the preview release in a window on an iMac.
Some of the tips in this article are great and the more you dig, the more you find they actually HAVE improved a lot of things in the 'old' OS as well (this seems to get ignored/glossed over in alot of reviews, especially the negative ones).
So far, Metro/Win8 is just a toy without touch. I honestly can't see myself getting much work done here but it seems to keep out of the way enough.
Ultimately (for me), would I use Windows at all unless I had to for work? And would I replace OS X 10.8 with Win8 as my primary OS? Quite simply: hell no. You'll have to pry this rMBP out of my cold dead hands (not just because Retina is such a game changer visually - I still MUCH prefer the speed, power, efficiency, apps and overall experience of OS X. It's no competition IMO).
Whether Win8 is a winner on touch devices like Surface, time will tell. Metro/Win8 is nice enough but there are next to zero apps for it. I'm also still not convinced having the 'old desktop' on a tablet really is what people are going to want. Obviously it's a stopgap until Win8 takes off but is it really much of a selling point? Anyone who has done RDP or Citrix from an iPad can get an idea of what it's like (I've used it enough times to know): It's OK in a pinch, but shoot me if I had to use it to actually get serious work done.
Microsoft have definitely thrown a Hail Mary here, not long to find out if it will work...
The horse this author decided to whip in support of his cause célèbre is 3D Touch. Perhaps you could argue mobile usability is getting worse but 3D Touch is hardly a good example to pick.
Comparing 3D Touch to adding a 'right-mouse button' is at best a faulty comparison. 3D Touch does not replace already-learned interactions; it does not require the user to learn something new. It simply adds new ways of interacting for people that know its there or those that discover it by accident.
How can that be making usability worse?
The beauty of mobile devices is there are so many ways to interact with a touchscreen in an intuitive way, the complexities are easier to hide. Apple have added yet another way, but it is entirely optional.
Perhaps the author would care to explain how if usability on mobile is so bad, how does my 2 1/2 year-old intuitively and effortlessly navigate children's programs on an iPad without any instruction at all? She'd need to be at least double her age in order to do the same thing with a mouse and keyboard.