mulasien

StrangeDays said:

mulasien said:

StrangeDays said:

mulasien said:

But...why though? What problem is this solving that's not going to introduce bigger problems?

FTA you just read: "But it would also potentially give the iPhone 15 Pro greater water and dust resistance"

What problems does your engineering background indicate this will introduce?

First issue has nothing to do with engineering, but rather a user adjustment from the last 10+ years of interacting with an iphone. The ability to mute your phone by feel and know if it's muted without having to look at a screen to confirm via a toggle switch. One thing I missed when I was on Android phones was that physical toggle. Having to go into settings to mute my Android phone was a PAIN vs simply toggling a physical switch. Losing a toggle switch after establishing it as a differentiating feature of iPhones feels like a step backwards, in my opinion. That is a user-interface trade off to be made in favor of better water resistance, though I'd wager that the current water resistance is just fine now without having to make such a major trade off.

From an engineering standpoint, if the buttons are haptic only, how do you hard reset the phone in the case of a lock up? If the buttons are software-driven, and the software is inoperable, what's the manual bypass?

The only thing more non-user-friendly would be to remove the charging port...or are you part of THAT crowd?

You're confused, this article is about the volume buttons -- switching back from two different buttons to one button like it was on the earlier iPhones (aka a rocker button). You can absolutely still operate them by touch -- these are still physical, they just work differently. 

You know what, you may be right. Similar articles on other Apple sites are grouping in removing the mute switch along with capacitive volume buttons, so I may have assumed the same was true for this article. I think my argument still stands on the mute switch even though it's not part of this article  .

StrangeDays said:

mulasien said:

But...why though? What problem is this solving that's not going to introduce bigger problems?

FTA you just read: "But it would also potentially give the iPhone 15 Pro greater water and dust resistance"

What problems does your engineering background indicate this will introduce?

First issue has nothing to do with engineering, but rather a user adjustment from the last 10+ years of interacting with an iphone. The ability to mute your phone by feel and know if it's muted without having to look at a screen to confirm via a toggle switch. One thing I missed when I was on Android phones was that physical toggle. Having to go into settings to mute my Android phone was a PAIN vs simply toggling a physical switch. Losing a toggle switch after establishing it as a differentiating feature of iPhones feels like a step backwards, in my opinion. That is a user-interface trade off to be made in favor of better water resistance, though I'd wager that the current water resistance is just fine now without having to make such a major trade off.

From an engineering standpoint, if the buttons are haptic only, how do you hard reset the phone in the case of a lock up? If the buttons are software-driven, and the software is inoperable, what's the manual bypass?

The only thing more non-user-friendly would be to remove the charging port...or are you part of THAT crowd?