Gallery: Apple's 3D Touch Is the Start of a New Interface Revolution

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    This is 3D Touch's Peek feature---you can tap lightly on a photo to have it pop up above whatever app you're in.
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    Every app's Quick Actions are different. Many are useful, many more are kind of dumb.
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    Quick Actions is just the beginning, though---pressure sensitivity data is now available to developers, too.
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    The pressure-sensitivity data Apple offers is low-latency and impressively thorough, developers say.
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    These features are cool, but what if you could press harder on the icon and have it actually capture a photo without ever even launching the app?
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    Already, some of the 3D Touch features are becoming personalized---but this will only become more powerful.
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