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Get rid of the home button.
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So is the model T Ford, but I bet you don't drive one. Times change, technology moves on, and plenty of companies who don't move with the times go bust.
I think if anything, they'll make the home button smaller. It could still work effectively if it was shrunk down a bit. Next thing to go will be the headphone jack. Can't really get any thinner with it. Apple will make bluetooth ear buds to compensate.
The Model T is a horrible example. Like the iPhone it revolutionized its industry and every car on the road uses tech introduced with it to this day including assembly line production, engines with separate blocks and heads and left hand drive. Ford is still in business. You can buy a Ford right now.
Technology moves forward... by building on the best elements of the past.
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It's already small enough to accommodate a smaller bezel if necessary.
I just can't imagine it without it. I also can't really fathom having a softkey that provides the same functionality. Softkeys just take up valuable screen real estate. I hated it on all the Androids I owned that had it. Playing games when my finger would slide over and hit the home button, or texting somebody and hitting the home key instead of the space bar. Such an annoyance.
Keep the home button with touch ID, but for gods sake dump the mechanical portion of the button. There is no good reason to keep a part that is known to fail. The home button should become capacitive.
The home button will go away because eventually the iPhone (and all other smartphones) will go away. Wearable technology is the future, and carrying a 5" screen around in your pocket will eventually be an antiquated concept.
You can't fathom a phone without a big, round old-tech mechanical button on the front? It's a.....button, and I really don't see the big deal about it. Aside from the fact that mechanical buttons have a finite longevity, they take up space. The bezels need to be severely trimmed on the next gen iPhones and this old fashioned button is what's holding things back. I'll repeat, it's a.......button. That's all it is. You say that it's 'iconic' but for how many years do you propose that Apple keep it? Until the iPhone is so old fashioned looking that people have stopped using them?
Uhmmmm hell no! If Apple gets rid of home button then started using soft home button like Android I will puke.
Lol, you mean soft buttons as in on screen capacitive buttons as in what the entire iPhone screen is already? Wow.
Software replacing hardware is the general progression of technology. Apple has been implementing it on all their devices forever. Its one of the features that made the iPhone popular, multi touch display.
Apple has always had good reasons to do this. It makes their devices smaller and more functional. Hardware buttons are hidden or totally no existent on other Apple products. On the back of iMacs, no buttons at all on an AppleTV (the device itself).
I remember when people hated the idea of lack of buttons the iPhone already has. On screen keyboard?!? Yuck! That will never work (although it had already been done). Now the same closed minded people are stuck on the home button and they will follow the leader until Apple releases a different way then they will love that way.
Apple will eventually get there. The touch id seems to be the hold up in my opinion. Patently Apple reports and continues to reports various means of using the screen for touch id. I know Apple doesn't use all their patents but this one is getting pushed.
So we can stay in 2007 and whine like BlackBerry users or adapt to change and the future.
I can only laugh at people saying "The iconic home button". Icons with technology typically isn't a good thing. Technology moves so fast that an icon becomes a synonym with antiquated.
Apple has always had good reasons to do this. It makes their devices smaller and more functional. Hardware buttons are hidden or totally no existent on other Apple products. On the back of iMacs, no buttons at all on an AppleTV (the device itself).
I remember when people hated the idea of lack of buttons the iPhone already has. On screen keyboard?!? Yuck! That will never work (although it had already been done). Now the same closed minded people are stuck on the home button and they will follow the leader until Apple releases a different way then they will love that way.
Apple will eventually get there. The touch id seems to be the hold up in my opinion. Patently Apple reports and continues to reports various means of using the screen for touch id. I know Apple doesn't use all their patents but this one is getting pushed.
So we can stay in 2007 and whine like BlackBerry users or adapt to change and the future.
I can only laugh at people saying "The iconic home button". Icons with technology typically isn't a good thing. Technology moves so fast that an icon becomes a synonym with antiquated.
For those saying that the home button is iconic... So was the square with round corners until they ditched it for touch ID. With the early leaks, showing a flat button with no icon, people were saying there's no way apple will get rid of that square..
I posted on another thread about the iPhone 7...
There'll be a redesign as seems to be the pattern lately.
Touch ID in a portion of the screen like a patent that surfaced.
Clickable bottom section of the screen (pressure or a click) like another patent that surfaced.
There's so many different ways that Apple could implement a home button replacement, and I'm sure whichever they pick, it'll just seem as natural as using the home button.
I posted on another thread about the iPhone 7...
There'll be a redesign as seems to be the pattern lately.
Touch ID in a portion of the screen like a patent that surfaced.
Clickable bottom section of the screen (pressure or a click) like another patent that surfaced.
There's so many different ways that Apple could implement a home button replacement, and I'm sure whichever they pick, it'll just seem as natural as using the home button.
No reason why Touch ID couldn't be relocated to behind the screen in the future when the tech improves a bit - Apple has a patent for it. Would then even allow for fingerprint locked specific apps.
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