Good. It would make taking pictures with the volume buttons awkward.
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iPhone 16 Pro Now Has 'Low' Chance of Featuring Solid-State Buttons
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They should just fire whoever wanted the solid state buttons and leave the silent switch alone. An 'action button' that can be pressed while in your pocket is useless for silent mode.
Good. "Solid state" AKA capacitive touch sucks. I want to strangle the Volvo engineer who put them everywhere in my XC60.... VW learned this the hard way too. Sometimes old school is the best school.
I cannot think of any product that has tried this that the experience made any improvement and didn't increase the use of profanity in the world.
I cannot think of any product that has tried this that the experience made any improvement and didn't increase the use of profanity in the world.
No, capacitive touch buttons wouldn't work out. There's too much incidental contact. Likely they would have pressure sensors that could detect a "keypress".
Arthur C Clarke once wrote in one of his books that touchpads are fine but for some things you need a button that goes "click". Defibrillator paddle buttons always go click. You want to be sure.
Car companies may disagree. People are constantly buying new stuff and people don't like to buy "last year's model" even though it's perfectly functional. So they change the shape of the headlights and call it "this year's model".
Since I buy a new phone every 2 or 3 years, the incremental changes (like faster Safari
) are enough to keep me happy.
Correct. I think most people overlook the advantages of SS buttons for waterproofing as well. 💦
The solid state home button on the 7 was a huge improvement over the slightly wobbly and unreliable home button on the previous models. A big win for quality.
You can say that the haptic feedback did or didn’t exactly match the feel of the physical button but any difference in feel was minor and not worse.
And yet, we did get that squared off Apple Watch, it just wasn’t the base mode but the Ultra model. Most rumors do have a source in truth but they don’t always turn out how we expect and sometimes they never make it to market.
It seems most rumors nowadays are not living up. I hope the increase in display size still happens, otherwise i might hold back until they hide the face id camera in the iphone 17.
Man my iphone 12 pro max is starting to feel old. Yet Apple’s current and near future lineup does not offer any enticing features to upgrade.
Man my iphone 12 pro max is starting to feel old. Yet Apple’s current and near future lineup does not offer any enticing features to upgrade.
I agree, but it's what Apple prefers that makes the day.
It would be cool if Apple polled its user base occasionally.