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iPhone 7 and 7 Plus to Feature Pressure-Sensitive Home Button With Haptic Feedback
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I'm sure you can buy competitor's phones for many years with a phone jack, as you can still buy a PC with a VGA port.
How about we just stop changing things for the sake of changing things. One reason I have found sticking with iPhone over the years appealing is that it has slowly evolved over time... and the way a person uses the phone hasn't changed much over the years. The kinds of changes you guys are looking for would throw a wrench into all of that.
Of course it will. It will very likely also have different levels of haptic feedback or even something like double tap.
Even on iOS 10 they changed the home button and you need to do an extra press to unlock (unless you override it in settings). Now they'll have a light touch to activate your display and a hard touch to unlock. No more fast unlocks that skip your lock screen notifications because Touch ID was too quick.
Sounds good as long as I can still feel where the button is on the phone (for orientation) without looking.
Lol not just to you, to everyone. If people don't realize that Apple does this almost every year then they're kind of delusional.
Retina, Force Touch, Siri, 128GB/256GB iOS Devices, Haptic, Rose Gold...
The list goes on. Apple does it in one device and sure enough it will roll out to more.
I would agree with you if Jobs was still alive.But now its all a pure cash grab.We got 4 different iPad models, 3 variants of the iPhone 7 , 3 variants if the MacBook .There was only 1 product in each section when Steve was alive.Now that's simplicity[/QUOTE]
You just know Apple won't have it anything but symmetrical. The home button is handy, and you need it for hard resets and stuff so I can't see it ever going.
I don't get why some want the home button gone. Everytime I use an Android device lacking a dedicated (not soft) home button I get very frustrated. I can't imagine Apple will completely remove it.
I would actually prefer a larger home button.... or home button area similar to a trackpad. A 3D touch area with pressure sensitivity where a user can swipe for navigation, multitasking, etc. A place to perform all whole set of functions where display interaction isn't necessary.
This year's iPhone will get some minor design changes and all the new stuff they will keep for the 2017 iPhone which will be it's tenth anniversary so if the overall design will be same except from some improved performance and better camera that does not seems like a big upgrade from current iPhone 6s
While I agree Samsung has some nice designs I really can't say Apple isn't better aesthetically, between the look and feel I think the iPhone has always been unmatched. And to me the antenna line are a fine implementation of use and functionalality. The new iPhones bare back is a little plain, but don't get me wrong I still think it's the cleanest design in the game. I say a good percentage of us will have the new device like usual.
Last month I dropped my iPhone 6s in water while pulling it out of my shorts to snap a photo while standing on a log that spanned the creek. It disappeared in about a foot of cold running water. I looked up at my wife and the look on her face was as if it was game over for the iPhone. After carefully traversing the log, I went into the creek and started searching for my iPhone - It was in a well worn brown Apple leather case which made it blend into the river rocks that line the creek bottom and somewhat hard to locate, as it had lodged itself about a foot deep face down in the cold running water.
It had been underwater for about 30-45 seconds when I pulled it out - the screen was still on.
I quickly pulled the case off, wiped it dry and shut it down. While on the way back it was shaken a few times to remove any additional water. I also stuffed it in a bag of rice for about 30 minutes for good measure.
It surfaced unscathed and fully functional!
I thought it was going to be dead, or at least some damage - but nothing. I’m typing this from that same iPhone now.
In fact,
"Cameras on smartphones are pointless unless they are DSLRs"!
"I mean, who's ever going to use a camera on their phone?!"
And, of course, you are right! No one ever uses the zoom on their smartphone's camera. Never seen it done. Why? Because it's completely "pointless"!
Not necessarily. The more you zoom in, the more you need the shutter/exposure to be faster. With two sensors, it can be faster, but they can also do some fancy things like taking 3 fast exposures and aligning them in software.
Force touch?!
I wonder how many people have turned it off. (Can you even do that on the iPhone?!)
My experience with it on the MacBoo Pro was that it interfered with the normal use of the trackpad--simple operations such as dragging a file from one place to another resulted in pop ups or failure of the drag to work. We turned it off in order to get work done!
There is a reason why simpler often works much better, especially for physical controls. As to software, maybe one day Apple will rediscover the advantages and brilliance of pull down menus as opposed to hidden controls and remember how important the Human Interface Guidelines are and restore consistency, transparency, and usability to iOS rather than the idiosyncratic, confusing, hit-and-miss app behavior.
Of course,maybe this is akin to saying that camera zoom is pointless!
I wonder how many people have turned it off. (Can you even do that on the iPhone?!)
My experience with it on the MacBoo Pro was that it interfered with the normal use of the trackpad--simple operations such as dragging a file from one place to another resulted in pop ups or failure of the drag to work. We turned it off in order to get work done!
There is a reason why simpler often works much better, especially for physical controls. As to software, maybe one day Apple will rediscover the advantages and brilliance of pull down menus as opposed to hidden controls and remember how important the Human Interface Guidelines are and restore consistency, transparency, and usability to iOS rather than the idiosyncratic, confusing, hit-and-miss app behavior.
Of course,maybe this is akin to saying that camera zoom is pointless!
Last month I dropped my iPhone 6s in water while pulling it out of my shorts to snap a photo while standing on a log that spanned the creek. It disappeared in about a foot of cold running water. I looked up at my wife and the look on her face was as if it was game over for the iPhone. After carefully traversing the log, I went into the creek and started searching for my iPhone - It was in a well worn brown Apple leather case which made it blend into the river rocks that line the creek bottom and somewhat hard to locate, as it had lodged itself about a foot deep face down in the cold running water.
It had been underwater for about 30-45 seconds when I pulled it out - the screen was still on.
I quickly pulled the case off, wiped it dry and shut it down. While on the way back it was shaken a few times to remove any additional water. I also stuffed it in a bag of rice for about 30 minutes for good measure.
It surfaced unscathed and fully functional!
It must have been a GREAT FEELING to see that it was stilling running. Here you are, much later and the iPhone is still operational. That's why I never leave the house without it...
why would people turn it off? in IOS 10 apple have made it very useful.Force touch?!
I wonder how many people have turned it off. (Can you even do that on the iPhone?!)
My experience with it on the MacBoo Pro was that it interfered with the normal use of the trackpad--simple operations such as dragging a file from one place to another resulted in pop ups or failure of the drag to work. We turned it off in order to get work done!
There is a reason why simpler often works much better, especially for physical controls. As to software, maybe one day Apple will rediscover the advantages and brilliance of pull down menus as opposed to hidden controls and remember how important the Human Interface Guidelines are and restore consistency, transparency, and usability to iOS rather than the idiosyncratic, confusing, hit-and-miss app behavior.
Of course,maybe this is akin to saying that camera zoom is pointless!
Do you remember anyone saying "oh you guys, how about you stop changing things for the sake of changing things" at the announcement of the iPhone 4?
No. Everyone was like "OMFG Apple has done it again please take my money".
That's exactly the feeling that we're sorely missing now.
