Slivka reports, “According to BGR, Apple is in fact contemplating doing just that, with both the iPad and iPhone being considered for home button removal. ‘We have exclusively been told that the reason Apple just added multitouch gestures for the iPad in the latest iOS 4.3 beta is because the iPad will be losing the home button. Yes, we are told that Apple, at some point in time, will remove the home button from the iPad’s design. Instead of button taps, you will use new multitouch gestures to navigate to the home screen and also to launch the app switcher. That’s not all, however. In addition to the home button disappearing from the iPad, we’re told that this change will make its way over to the iPhone as well.'”
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MacDailyNews Take: Uh oh, if so: Grandma, we’ve got some training to do!
Just thought about the touch sensitive type button.
in theory it would be better than the physical button.
IRL it may be the worst choice now that i think of it…
putting the phone in your pocket your fingers could touch it… while in your pocket, thin clothing may allow the button to be touched inadvertently. which would lead to battery usage..
I can easily slide the bar with my finger, through a shirt… (just tried it, slower the better)
They need to keep the home button right where it is. or… move it to the top where the Lock is. move/remove lock maybe? or make the lock button multi use. Pressing it does all the home functions, holding it is lock.
Buttons! Buttons! We don’t need no stinkin’ buttons.
If true, every iPhone (new verizon customers included) is going to be obsolete.
Never gonna happen. Compare it with the mouse: the more buttons, the better – so I expect more buttons and a scroll wheel for the next iPad!
this all start to make sense since my home button on my iphone starting to fail few months ago. i have to press the home button twice just to get it to work!
hM
good less physical buttons is better, while there at it, I’d like a menu bar (so you get quit etc)
and if they get rid of all the buttons they could use rtty to replace the data port, a couple LEDs to replace the audio port, and have it charge off of a solar panel, then it would be water proof 😀