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Don't know what you are talking about on any points.

a) 3D touch is not exaggerated. I have spent a few days with the iPhone 6s and it is a game changer for future mobile interaction. It is very reminiscent of contextual menus and in a year once all developers get on board (and they will thanks to Apple's excellent iOS9 adoption rate) it will be hard to use any phone that doesn't have it.

b) There is no need for new hardware for the Apple Watch. I have one. Every problem with it is software related. Many animations are superfluous, the app strategy is misguided, native apps are still too slow (yet Apple's apps are fast), the watch faces are not nearly customisable enough and it is not situation aware enough.

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Mostly good points, but one gripe:

> they will thanks to Apple's excellent iOS9 adoption rate

Adoption rate does not matter when discussing 3D Touch because it requires hardware and is only available on the latest models. But I still think devs get on board quickly because Apple sells a lot of phones, and it's a cool feature (and a bummer when not implemented).

OS adoption rate helps with the incentive to support new API, regardless of the hardware. You support it, and the hardware will catch up. Since we are already at 50% at least, implementing support is an easy decision. What more, the API here is very easy to implement, so even more incentive to implement.

If iOS9 adoption is fast, developers can start building iOS 9 apps that include 3D Touch features. The 3D Touch support will obviously only work on the 6S series for now, and there may be different code paths involved but it's easily do-able.

If a majority of users stuck with iOS8 for some reason, developers would need to target that, iOS8 apps couldn't support Touch 3D features even optionally since none of the relevant APIs would be available.

You don't need to drop iOS 8 support to include 3D Touch support in your applications.

a) nice marketing buzzwords. I'm sure '3d touch' will work great in the winter or with screen protectors.

b) bad battery life? non-round design? poor software? expensive? There's "no need for new hardware"? :^)

a) 3D touch would work fine with gloves if that's what you're implying just like it works fine with screen protectors (Apple has stated this already).

b) Battery life is 1.5 days. A watch either needs to have 1 day or 7 days battery life. Anything in between is pointless since you will still charge it every night. And the non round design is a conscious feature which I appreciate every time I have to scroll through my calendar. And software/expensive has what do with hardware ?

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