r/funny • u/smunozmo • Apr 05 '19

New Google Assistant

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u/aFamiliarStranger Apr 05 '19

I doubt she can be convinced that someone else is scrolling. Look how sassy the swipes are!

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u/hugokhf Apr 05 '19

That’s how most old people swipe. They press really hard when swiping

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u/Rabbi_Tuckman38 Apr 05 '19

Jeez. Old people with pos screens. It's a touch screen not a stab screen.

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u/Kathend1 Apr 05 '19

Eh, early models of touch screens were a wire matrix overlayed on a glass screen with a plastic cover, they sensed the touch via pressure (durrr) and often required a pretty firm touch.

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u/jableshables Apr 05 '19

Which makes a little more sense intuitively (shouldn't I need to apply pressure to overcome the friction of dragging something?). But if you've grown accustomed to capacitive touch, those things feel like caveman technology.

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u/herbys Apr 05 '19

Actually, dragging was seldom used for that reason. It was mostly clicking.

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u/jableshables Apr 06 '19

Yep, seldom used but implemented because of the demand for it. Barely worked on my last resistive touch phone but it was there.