{"id":51584,"date":"2026-04-14T14:13:46","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T18:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=51584"},"modified":"2026-04-14T14:13:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T18:13:46","slug":"only-time-will-tell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/14\/only-time-will-tell\/","title":{"rendered":"Only Time Will Tell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/unsung.aresluna.org\/only-time-will-tell\/\">Marcin Wichary<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/unsung.aresluna.org\/only-time-will-tell\/\">\n<p>Why is there a short wait if you press a button on your headphone remote or your AirPods to pause the music? Because the interface has to let a bit of time pass to figure out if you&rsquo;re going to press the button again, making it a double press (advance to next track) instead of a single press.<\/p>\n<p>This kind of disambiguation delay is everywhere for simple gestures.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Why is there a short wait if you press a button to go to the next track on your car&rsquo;s steering wheel? It&rsquo;s a delay of a different kind, but the same principle: the function cannot kick in on press down, because press down and hold mean &ldquo;fast forward.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marcin Wichary: Why is there a short wait if you press a button on your headphone remote or your AirPods to pause the music? Because the interface has to let a bit of time pass to figure out if you&rsquo;re going to press the button again, making it a double press (advance to next track) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2026-04-14T18:13:52Z","apple_news_api_id":"c5a061d0-7d60-4489-8a8a-f3366ac394ef","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2026-04-14T18:13:52Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AxaBh0H1gRImKivM2asOU7w","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1422,1167,77,458,31,30],"class_list":["post-51584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-airpods","tag-car","tag-design","tag-finder","tag-ios","tag-mac"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51584"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51585,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51584\/revisions\/51585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}