This is a huge reason to keep it. Technophiles don't need it, but everyone else does.
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Apple Looking to Eliminate Home Button on iOS Devices, Integrate Touch and Display Driver Chips?
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This is a huge reason to keep it. Technophiles don't need it, but everyone else does.
As it is, we can hold the power and home buttons to reset an iPhone. If the home button becomes a software button, how will the system know if the home button is still being pressed once iOS is no longer running? Isn't the home button used for things outside of iOS?
I'm not a developer so my questions may very well be irrelevant.
I'm not a developer so my questions may very well be irrelevant.
Innovation is so stale at Apple. Blackberry has been doing the buttonless thing for the past few years. Touch ID is more of an annoyance then a feature IMO.
If it annoys you, turn it off. The rest of us that use it enjoy it. :| Touch ID is one of the big things that makes me use my 6+ over my Nexus 6. It's useful because I use longer passwords whenever I can.
The change will be on the Fall 2016 iPhone. You'll reset by holding down the power switch longer. 2sec past the standby mode "click."
6s:
2g RAM
Will still start at 16g Storage to force most to upgrade to 64g entry. (iCloud will be used as reason you can get by with 16g)
A9 ARM
Force Touch Display on 6s+ only.
New Color Options (Mostly, Well, you know the trend...)
New 12m Camera with smaller pixels (Blah)
New Touch ID Sensor.
Internal chassis mods to improve stiffness. Primarily for the 6s+
The 6s will be a Very Nice device.
Sadly it looks like she is going to become the latest hate figure for the fanatical wing of the Apple user base.
And they wonder why so many people around the world despise us.
How do you figure? The popular opinion here seems to be that she was right.
What exactly do other people despise us for?
I didn't read every reply but it looks like the majority would lose the home button...well there's already a device for you guys and gals; current BlackBerry 10 devices don't have a home button.
Also, multi-tasking between apps is the best in BB10.
Also, multi-tasking between apps is the best in BB10.
I've never used FaceTime, never will. I know exactly two people out of hundreds of iPhone users I encounter daily that use it. Rather than putting it behind the screen, here's a better idea: offer a model without the camera in it at all. That'll free up some real estate on the front of the shell. I think if people were offered a smaller phone with a bigger screen and it was accomplished by giving up the front facing camera, it would break sales records.
Yeah, because who wants to see the person they are video chatting with when they video chat...
The on screen buttons on android are great.... they vanish when you dont use and give you the full screen.
It's why my 6" phone is smaller that the iPhone 6+ with that has a much smaller display...
The only reason Apple still has a home button is they made this big deal over touch ID while already lagging behind everyone else and we all know apple take their sweet time on some of these things.
I'm sure whatever they do will be an elegant solution though. Android either skips the finger print sensor (mostly because the public doesn't care about them) or they stick it on the back,.... which when implemented better, is better than how apple does it. Your fingers are already naturally on the back of the device. LG's moving the buttons to the back was genius I loved my G2 and having changed, really miss that placement that seemed awkward at first.
Honestly, it doesn't matter if she was right or wrong. What matters is that it shows how nowadays Apple is different from 20 years ago. In the past, everything was designed thinking what was best. Now the goal is the money, and being politically correct with groups that represent a substantial amount of money.
Being confident that Java, Android, Windows, and iOS (in that order) are the worst things that have happened in computer history, because they represent either low quality standards or removing control/freedom from users and giving it to companies, I'm obviously happy that nonsense opinions from so-called indie artists are able to change Apple words. I'm happy because it shows how weak Apple decisions are, and how willing they're to change them just for the sake of money and being politically correct.
Now back to work with my Macs, using a proper operating system like OS X, hoping computer history will be written by users again, someday, like it always was.
Probably more or less but the bezel will be thinner at top and bot
so this is no home button iphone gotta look like in future ??????????
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Not seeing the downside of have the whole screen as a button instead...
The proximity sensor, and the requirement for force touch to be triggered by both a capacitive touch and pressure/strain.