sully54

An article detailing a rare issue that is affecting 0.8% of iPhones brought to the Genius Bar? 

 Must be a slow news day. 

One thing you can count on about Apple is consistency. They don't change things for change's sake. It avoid them having to alienate their user base with a new UI or input method

Microsoft's approach, especially with the surface studio is to make a splash, be the headline. But more times than not, those headlines don't translate to units sold, which means the product never resonated with people because the technology was something nice to look at but was never one people saw themselves use on a daily basis. 

Time will tell, the surface studio may turn out to be the thing that changes the industry to the point that Apple is the one following instead of leading for once. But I'm willing to bet that won't be the case because apple's model of incremental changes and design towards consistency and usability still proven to work. 

digital_guy said:

How is this different from AssistiveTouch (which has been around at least since 5.0, in 2011)?

And, why is it exclusive to the 7 series? Wouldn't it be possible for any iPhone prior to the 7 to have a physical home button failure as well?

I think the real story here isn't so much the software home button since it's been available on iPhones as assistive touch, but rather that the iPhone 7 seems to have a home button self diagnostic feature. 

They look ridiculous.

To be honest, In this day and age, it would be naive for anyone to think they have a modicum of privacy on the internet. Apple or any company can claim all they want that they take security and privacy seriously—and they very well may—but when you get right down to it, it's all code. And coding will invariably have holes that are just waiting to get exploited, if not by the government then by hackers.