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Ten reasons Apple won't be ditching the button for the new Ipad
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Maybe...just maybe...I mean bear with me here:
Apple just photoshopped out the home button in the invite because they thought it would look more sleek? Or because they thought including it would draw away from the invites main focus (the screen, the place, date, and keynote). It's not unheard of for companies to alter the picture in advertising to make it look better.
Apple just photoshopped out the home button in the invite because they thought it would look more sleek? Or because they thought including it would draw away from the invites main focus (the screen, the place, date, and keynote). It's not unheard of for companies to alter the picture in advertising to make it look better.
Yeah, I know a lot of people that do. You can hear that they're clicking and not tapping. I personally tap to click and then click to drag because I never got used to using the three finger drag.
Old skool button?
What next no buttons atall..we should all power our Ipads up with Siri "shout Power"?
Your assumption makes no sense.
I simply said, that equipping a touch screen phone with a physical button of questionable quality, known to have a high failure rate reeks of cheap cost cutting measures. Then Apple loyalists get very angry when "Apple Tax" is referred to.
Apple should use a touch sensitive button for it's "home" button just like Android devices do. Statistically, they are far superior, with a very long MTBF rating of over 80 times greater than a mechanical button that is subject to debris entering around the opening etc.
None of the over 20 Android phones I've used, and continue to use, over the last few years have experienced any type of failure with the touch sensitive buttons. Also I've read on this forum about "oh they're too sensitive and too easy to push" blah blah blah.
If Apple would set their ego aside, and put a touch sensitive button in place of the mechanical one. That would fix the issue. It would also bring them in to the present time with contemporary controls.
See how easy that solution is
Yes. I hate tap to click and it's one of the first things I turn off on any computer I use.
Here a reason I hope Apple ditches the home button
http://www.patentlyapple.com/patent...e-blows-us-away-with-smart-bezel-details.html
http://www.patentlyapple.com/patent...e-blows-us-away-with-smart-bezel-details.html
that would take to much space and be to expensive since it doesnt exist yet on another mobile device.
Its just a patent for the far future. if another company makes this, apple can make money out of them.
We can't defenitely know anything about the price or the space that would take.
The technology used is not far in the future and could be employed if Apple decides to.
sure it can be used. just needs a whole team of tech guys to make it happen. And its not like a already used technique to make more pixels on a inch or have a cpu have more ghz, this is more difficult because no one made it yet.
Thats why it will be mega expensive for apple. thus they wont make it any time soon.
Exactly. Especially with seniors, they can't remember all the gestures. It's so easy now with the home button to just say, "Whenever you get lost, just push this button and it'll get you back to the home screen." If I had to explain "pinch with five fingers" they'll never remember that!
Honestly no offense intended at all... but I'm fairly certain Apple doesn't consider (at least much) senior citizens when it designs products... (the 18-34 has traditionally been Apple's sweet spot) they are far outliers in Apple's product demographics.
But one of iPad's appeals has been that it's so easy for anyone to use, including seniors and people with mental/developmental disabilities -- for example, they really highlighted its use for people with autism in the iPad video at last year's keynote. I myself find the home button easier to use than multi-touch gestures, so I really hope Apple doesn't get rid of the home button. We'll find out soon enough!
Ok good point with that... but I think Apple will always design for their "sweet spot" demographic. And i'm almost certain Apple will leave the home button be for at least this next generation of iPad and iPhone. For the iPhone 6 and iPad 4 they will be likely (IMO) to remove it with larger redesign to the iPad previewed through the new iPhone 5 design language.
I agree, but I think we have different opinions on what exactly is Apple's "sweet spot demographic." IMO, it is non-technically savvy people, and for them, multi-touch gestures just aren't very obvious or discoverable. A hardware button that sometimes fails (and I've owned every iPod touch model since first release, both iPads, and a few iPhones, and none of their home buttons ever failed on me), seems like an ok compromise to make iOS devices more usable for the non-tech crowd.
I think Apple's demographic is EVERYBODY nowadays. There's no sweet spot for the iPad. That's why it's a massive success. It's made for everybody and everybody is buying it. 18-34 is way too small of a range for one of the most valuable companies in the world.
I could think of one good reason...
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1332228/
Then again we will not know until the 7th.
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I would be happy if they got rid of the home button since on every iPhone, iPod touch, iPad I owned has had home button issues. Also for the gestures they should of had a tutorial when iPad is setup showing how they work.
I would be happy if they got rid of the home button since on every iPhone, iPod touch, iPad I owned has had home button issues. Also for the gestures they should of had a tutorial when iPad is setup showing how they work.