Casey Liss

I'm still accidentally hitting the button a lot, but the consequences are not significant because when I'm doing that, it's almost always when I'm picking up a locked phone, so I don't actually find myself landing in the camera app. Within, I think, maybe... Less than a minute of my wife picking up my phone, she had accidentally taken a picture with the camera control. I should have saved it.

It was like, iPhone unboxing day. Here's our first picture of the floor. It's a thing, right? Again, there's a setting to make the camera control require a double click to get into the camera app. I don't think I need to use that yet. I think I'm building my habits around it, but... I think the camera control was maybe a little bit overly ambitious. As a button, it feels good. It clicks good.

It was like, iPhone unboxing day. Here's our first picture of the floor. It's a thing, right? Again, there's a setting to make the camera control require a double click to get into the camera app. I don't think I need to use that yet. I think I'm building my habits around it, but... I think the camera control was maybe a little bit overly ambitious. As a button, it feels good. It clicks good.

I like the fact that it's touch sensitive. The half press I'm not sold on, the menu interface I'm not sold on, and the upcoming feature that we don't even have yet, the half press for focus or whatever they're going to do. I don't think that's going to make this better. They're piling so much stuff onto this button. This is not like a version 1.0 button.

I like the fact that it's touch sensitive. The half press I'm not sold on, the menu interface I'm not sold on, and the upcoming feature that we don't even have yet, the half press for focus or whatever they're going to do. I don't think that's going to make this better. They're piling so much stuff onto this button. This is not like a version 1.0 button.

This is like the version 4.5 of this button already. It does so much stuff. It is so overloaded. It has so many capabilities. And like I said, maybe it's just me, but when you find one of these phones, you can learn how to get into the menus pretty easily, but it's such a strange feeling. It's like, press, but don't press. It's such a delicate operation. It reminds me of like...

This is like the version 4.5 of this button already. It does so much stuff. It is so overloaded. It has so many capabilities. And like I said, maybe it's just me, but when you find one of these phones, you can learn how to get into the menus pretty easily, but it's such a strange feeling. It's like, press, but don't press. It's such a delicate operation. It reminds me of like...

Some of the finesse moves I would have to do with a thumb stick in Super Monkey Ball in the GameCube. Like, where you just really have to learn how to, like, what the difference between, you know, 18 and 17 degrees on the stick is, as opposed to just being like, you know, like, jam the stick to the left, right, up, down, right?

Some of the finesse moves I would have to do with a thumb stick in Super Monkey Ball in the GameCube. Like, where you just really have to learn how to, like, what the difference between, you know, 18 and 17 degrees on the stick is, as opposed to just being like, you know, like, jam the stick to the left, right, up, down, right?

So sort of delicate, like, just think about pressing it, and then you'll get into the menus. And again, it's not bad, because I don't think I want to get into the menus a lot, and I do know how to do it now. But it is so much... I don't know how to... So much more like... I don't want to say sophisticated. It's so much less...

So sort of delicate, like, just think about pressing it, and then you'll get into the menus. And again, it's not bad, because I don't think I want to get into the menus a lot, and I do know how to do it now. But it is so much... I don't know how to... So much more like... I don't want to say sophisticated. It's so much less...

straightforward to do like it requires more mechanical finesse than i would have expected way more mechanical finesse than half pressing a shutter button and having handed my very large cameras to many people over the years for them to take pictures i can tell you that the average person has difficulty half pressing even a gigantic shutter button that is very easy in my opinion to half press because it has like miles of travel and you literally push it halfway down you cannot push this button halfway down like the travel is so short if you try to push it halfway halfway down you will completely depress it you have to think about pressing

straightforward to do like it requires more mechanical finesse than i would have expected way more mechanical finesse than half pressing a shutter button and having handed my very large cameras to many people over the years for them to take pictures i can tell you that the average person has difficulty half pressing even a gigantic shutter button that is very easy in my opinion to half press because it has like miles of travel and you literally push it halfway down you cannot push this button halfway down like the travel is so short if you try to push it halfway halfway down you will completely depress it you have to think about pressing

and then you've just half pressed it.

and then you've just half pressed it.

When you're using a camera, usually you are adjusting... Especially if you're fumbling for it, like real quick, you go, oh, I'm getting the camera out. It's not the time for a now. I'm going to apply the most controlled pressure I've ever applied using the tendons in my fingers.

When you're using a camera, usually you are adjusting... Especially if you're fumbling for it, like real quick, you go, oh, I'm getting the camera out. It's not the time for a now. I'm going to apply the most controlled pressure I've ever applied using the tendons in my fingers.

Yeah, let me fast forward this for Apple. The solution to this, the real version 4.5 of this, I mean, I don't know how many years in the future this is going to be, is to solve all these problems. Basically, that entire side of the phone needs to be a giant touch-sensitive, pressure-sensitive clicky button. Because, for example, zooming and swiping...

Yeah, let me fast forward this for Apple. The solution to this, the real version 4.5 of this, I mean, I don't know how many years in the future this is going to be, is to solve all these problems. Basically, that entire side of the phone needs to be a giant touch-sensitive, pressure-sensitive clicky button. Because, for example, zooming and swiping...

The little interface that appears is maybe a little small, but the essentially trackpad area, it's a small button. That area of like swipe, swipe, swipe, it's barely enough to satisfactorily cycle through the menus, let alone being satisfactory for Zoom.