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New iPhone leaks show tap to wake, attention detection, and virtual home button

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Re: New iPhone leaks show tap to wake, attention detection, and virtual home button

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I guess we're not getting a normal headphone jack back are we. Seems like the trend is to keep getting rid of things. I worry that in a couple years we'll just have a shiny black lump in our pocket that we'll communicate with via intuition.

Why would you ever think that they'd go back and bring back a headphone jack?

Re: New iPhone leaks show tap to wake, attention detection, and virtual home button

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I think you can apply this strategy to ads too, to learn what kind of ad an user likes or dislikes, so they can target the ads a little bit better/easier. Which is exactly why I will refuse to give any facial recognition data to third party apps.

Why? If you are going to be seeing ads anyway, might as well see better targeted and useful ads that make your face cheer up. Don't get all the cynicism.

They're not going to optimize for what makes me happy, they're going to optimize for what makes me spend. There's a strong chance these are not the same things.

Re: New iPhone leaks show tap to wake, attention detection, and virtual home button

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post #31

I guess we're not getting a normal headphone jack back are we. Seems like the trend is to keep getting rid of things. I worry that in a couple years we'll just have a shiny black lump in our pocket that we'll communicate with via intuition.

Why would you ever think that they'd go back and bring back a headphone jack?

A boy can dream.

Re: New iPhone leaks show tap to wake, attention detection, and virtual home button

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Am I the only person who uses the physical home button to feel for which way is up when pulling the phone out their pocket? I'm going to look like an idiot 50% of the time i pull my phone out once that button goes virtual.

The screen cut-out at the top might be distinctive enough to serve the same purpose.

Re: New iPhone leaks show tap to wake, attention detection, and virtual home button

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Any new UI innovations that isn't already done in Android?

Donwvotes? Alright let me reframe the question: Are iOS and Android continuing to converging on the same features? What new innovations can be found in the mature mobile market or should be look to other form factors?

Apple very rarely actually innovates. Their innovations tend to be the perfection of an existing technology. I can't think of anything they've done first. They're the prime example of "second mover advantage".

AR/VR is where the new innovations are happening. ARKit, Tango, Oculus, Hololens, etc.

Re: New iPhone leaks show tap to wake, attention detection, and virtual home button

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Am I the only person who uses the physical home button to feel for which way is up when pulling the phone out their pocket? I'm going to look like an idiot 50% of the time i pull my phone out once that button goes virtual.

Wouldn't it be better if it worked both ways up? Why shouldn't it?

Re: New iPhone leaks show tap to wake, attention detection, and virtual home button

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post #31

I guess we're not getting a normal headphone jack back are we. Seems like the trend is to keep getting rid of things. I worry that in a couple years we'll just have a shiny black lump in our pocket that we'll communicate with via intuition.

Why would you ever think that they'd go back and bring back a headphone jack?

The leaks/articles that mention it? http://bgr.com/2017/05/18/iphone-8-release-date-near-specs-h...
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