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Right-click would be equivalent to long-press on iOS. But don’t long-press too hard or you’ll get 3D Touch. Or maybe you do want 3D Touch, so you press hard. Surprise! Your iPad doesn’t support 3D Touch; you were thinking of your phone. Does this particular app even support 3D Touch? Only one way to find out!

Inconsistent and not discoverable, which isn’t anything like a right mouse button at all.

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It’s exactly like right clicking. Only one way to find out if it does anything, and if it does something, you will only find out what once you try it.

You even had stuff like the puck mouse, which didn’t support the feature.

3D Touch is like if pressing the right mouse button a little harder than usual opened a second, completely different context menu. But only sometimes; in some programs, it would just open the regular context menu, leaving you to wonder if you pressed hard enough.

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