531: Rock It in the Right Direction
Accidental Tech Podcast
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How to Make a Pressure Sensitive Button
Car manufacturers seem to love this idea and I want someone to shake them and say, please don't do this. They have a huge piece of plastic that when you press anywhere on it, the entire piece of plastic goes in by like two millimeters. It works fine about 95% of the time, but that other 5% is really frustrating. So anyway, getting back to the phone, where you just rock it from side to side, I hate that because it's like, okay, I pressed it, but I pressed too close to the middle. Didn't the iPhone 3G and 3GS have a single big rocker? Like they did it with a divot in the middle
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