Hard for me to get excited with Apple appearing to have abandoned a smaller iPhone form factor.
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Gurman: iPhone 16 Pro 'Likely' to Include Haptic Buttons
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From the glory days of Steve jobs to nowadays Apple corp. discussing that kind of stuff……
Overengineered buttons cost more and fail easier, so there's a bigger margin and greater chance of them needing repairs or making a device obsolete => solves the problem of not enough money going to apple.
Absolutely not. He is one of the most popular ‘this could happen’ sources out there.
I almost typed that while keeping a straight face.
What value brings the new “buttons” to the users?.
What problems/difficulties do they bring to the users?.
For me the balance is negative. I prefer 10000 times a simple, reliable mute switch over a software solution that requires my full attention to activate vs the “no need to think” convenience of the switch.
But since Apple Has run out of good ideas or the capability to listen to people with good ideas, then, we will have this “improvement”.
What problems/difficulties do they bring to the users?.
For me the balance is negative. I prefer 10000 times a simple, reliable mute switch over a software solution that requires my full attention to activate vs the “no need to think” convenience of the switch.
But since Apple Has run out of good ideas or the capability to listen to people with good ideas, then, we will have this “improvement”.
This haptic button thing is bordering on parody at this point, we've had so many flip flopping articles about the 15, now we're talking about the 16.
The costs and complexity of replacing the functionality of... buttons. 😐
I actually much prefer the longer pill-shaped buttons we have today. These felt harder to press accurately since they were smaller.What’s it going to take for Apple to bring back this volume button design? I miss simpler times!
Haptic buttons? BFD. Wouldn’t it be cooler if the Apple iPhone Pro supported the Apple Pencil?
im so tired of this rumor already
Im looking at this as a good thing less moving parts = less failures
Not sure how widely used 3D touch was. I found it finicky but maybe that was just my particular phone or me in general not figuring out how to use it right
. I'm guessing the cost and retail increase to bring it back would be fairly unwelcome considering how expensive smartphones have gotten and current inflation won't help either.
is it bad... that my phone still has those...?What’s it going to take for Apple to bring back this volume button design? I miss simpler times!
you obviously have never repaired a iphone. a physical button will last longer. just ask my iphone 2g.
a haptic button might be paired with a logic board=if your button breaks, no way to replace it!
also i bet it is expensive to repair, or even refurbish one of these buttons
Aggressively boring discussion about a terribly boring rumor.
Call me Apple does something with the iPhone that’s actually worth talking about.
Call me Apple does something with the iPhone that’s actually worth talking about.
they're smaller... because they were never on a iphone bigger than 4 inches... no one will put huge buttons on a small phone...?
Apple's intentions are to eventually have an iPhone with no ports or physical buttons at all, in a totally sealed and glued up slab of glass and aluminium.
no one knows anything about apple anymore. they've become too secretive. its a miracle we even caught them draining batteries to influence people to buy new iphones.
What’s it going to take for Apple to bring back this volume button design? I miss simpler times!
That was my favorite iPhone Volume Up/Down design to date. Easier to accurately detect, by touch, the different buttons upon which my finger was resting. Why? The larger space between the round buttons made all the difference. The current space between buttons is so minuscule that, at times, the two buttons can feel like one long button.
Said another way... I've had more volume misfires since they moved to the longer/closer buttons. Of course YMMV.
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Is this when you type on the keyboard and it vibrates like the pixel or samsung phones? I SO wish apple had that!!
It’s more likely to be more software = more failures.