I prefer touch ID, I guess I belong in the minority but resting my finger on the home button to unlock the phone without picking it up was amazing and I miss it. For me touch ID was superior in every way (remember the Covid mask mess?). The optimal configuration would be a combination of both face and touch ID but it's not gonna happen.
(I'm not going to argue what is 'Best'. The best tool for any job is that one that works best for YOU. I get the feeling that some people here would force left handed people to use right handed scissors or vice versa... seriously.. grow up y'all.)
I'd say about 25% of my customers/clients agree with you. But, it's more the Home Button/TouchID combination they want than TouchID by itself?
This group of clients almost all had family members "help" them by buying them the latest greatest iPhones with FaceID to replace iPhones 6s, 8s, etc..
All but a few are now using iPhone SE2s or SE3s.
Most hated an entirely gesture driven UI/UX? The thought process is along the lines of, "Why should I have to work and relearn to use a phone? It should work for me. What happened to 'it just works?'" etc.
I'm not a fan either, but I'm a stubborn old man in a young-ish body. I don't mind it as much as others, but as long as I have an option, I'll stick with the Home Button/TouchID version. When I can't replace my current iPhone SE2 with a SE3 or hopefully another home button form factor SE4? I'll probably hang on to what I have until it dies or there's a security update that isn't available for it.. then? Meh. I'll buy the cheapest iPhone available, not because I can't afford the better more expensive versions, but because I won't care to pay Apple more for a device that doesn't work the way I want.
I keep hearing the fiction that "The Home Button Phones are for people who can't afford the FaceID phones.."
But, none of my clients who have "downgraded" are hurting for money! Boats, planes, yes planes(!), multiple BMWs, etc... Most would rather switch to flip phones than go back to the FaceID iPhones they didn't like? It's.. amazing.
So, there's a rich (if small) vein of iPhone users for Apple to tap, who would gladly pay more for an iPhone with iPhone 13-14 features, and a home button... Hell, a lot of them would pay extra for a MBP with a touchpad that actually clicked again too? No amount of tinkering with accessibility options makes the Haptic version feel right to them... (yes there's a lot of overlap in these two groups. The Venn Diagram is *almost* a circle.)
I realize that Apple's got Scrooge McDuck Swimming Pool filled with gold coins* money at this point, but it's hard to believe that they're ignoring that.
* What part of the spaceship campus do they hide that? Think Tim dives in every day, or only on special occasions?
Anyway, yes, you and I are in a minority that prefer "the old ways". But, I don't think that it's as tiny a minority as some on here would like people to believe... It just tiny enough that Apple, sadly, feels comfortable ignoring it.
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