Brownlee: LG's touchless hand gesture controls are a gimmick
Marques Brownlee · Marques Brownlee on Building an Audience and Other Advice for Creators · Y Combinator · Mar 21, 2019 · at 6:28
Marques Brownlee (MKBHD) explains how hands-on testing differentiates gimmick features from practical daily driver capabilities on smartphones.
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“This came up recently because I did a video with an LG phone that came out. Mm-hmm. Has this feature where you wave your hand over it and do these gestures to open up apps and things like that. It's called the G-A. Okay. And like, on the surface, like, this is cool. This is like future type stuff. But then you actually use it and you're like, all right. So I don't know what I have stuff on my hands. Maybe I'm cooking, but I just want to like open the YouTube app real quick and search for something like now what? Like I have to still type in what I want to search. Like there's limits to the usefulness of that. So that for me fell in the gimmick bucket just because using it actually changed my mind.”
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