dacloo

this wasn't a review, but more or less a biased overview. Which is fine, but don't call it a 'review'.

caccamucca said:

Move all manufacturing out of China and into India.

Let's start flexing our muscles and stop getting pushed around for some BS reasons.

Chinese IP Properties = Oxymoron 

"Our" muscles? Are you an Apple employee? If not, why do you care? I think the multi billion dollar company will take care of it just fine.

Apple isn't really excelling at anything anymore. It has rapidly become a boring, hollow brand with no real vision.

gprovida said:

I am confused. Since the touch screen requires bare fingers or specialized gloves - why would the glove be an issue if the access to 99.9999% of functionality require screen access.   This seems to be achieving more self consistency on phone access. 

1. Siri
2. Checking the home screen

It's not just cold weather. Gloves are used in many professions, e.g farmers, construction workers all wear gloves. If you're working you want to keep fast access to your phone. Not everyone using iPhones are tech hipsters.

"A video editor thinks...."

Whatever.

I tried the iPhone 7 home button and Apple did a piss poor job at it. What a regression. It feels wrong.
And without tactical feedback you are indeed screwed in a colder environment. Like  anyone's going to buy separate gloves for their iPhone. Or is that another 'accessory' they'll ship with the iPhone to transition to a propriety set of gloves for $159?

Apple is obsessed with the wrong things.

That's what you get if you create a propriety system and scam users with overpriced cables. 
And that's what you get if you remove the jack port that nobody asked for, so that they control that market space too with expensive third-party licensing fees and premium first-party devices.