Will the iPhone 16 Feature Taptic Buttons?

[Konrad]

I’m not denying that new EU regulations haven’t been to beneficial to those living outside EU borders. USB-C is a good example and long overdue. However the SIM tray has also been superseded by a more convenient technology just as most people now use wireless earphones rather than plugging into the old audio jack. Do you use wireless earphones or headphones? Do you use 5G? Maybe Apple will wait until 2025 or 2026, but eventually the SIM tray will get tossed permanently into the bin of obsolete tech, along with USB-A, optical drives, the audio jack, etc.

You don’t know what’s going to happen. What apple or anyone else will do may not be up to you. The eSIM is not more convenient to millions of users. When one drops the phone in a water, where the Apple ip68 is rather useless the eSIM has zero convenience, when one stands in some stupid line at a hopefully open telecom shop in the middle of the night or when the eSIM requires residency papers in certain countries, the eSIM is and will be in the foreseeable future a tech junk. Those topics have been often discussed and it is universaly known for that there are clear reasons why it’s absent in the US versions and why Apple would really like to part with it. And benefiting the user is hardly a priority. As the headphones go, I prefer the wired ones and also for good reasons. The 5G is automatically activated where available.

 

[yabeweb]

There is probably a dedicated hardware controller. If the phone is so dead the button won’t work, it’s too dead to do anything else with and needs to be connected to power anyway.

I agree there’s not a whole lot of tangible benefit but they can make it work. It would prevent buttons wearing out, and they did a good job with the touchpad. I didn’t even know for a while that it wasn’t actually moving. I found out by reading about it, if you’d asked me I would swear it really was clicking when I pressed it.

If they do that good a job or better I’d be ok with it.

The benefit on the mouse is real as you am said it prevents wearing out’ but you click a lot with a mouse.

Never heard of button wearing out on a phone…

 

[CarAnalogy]

The benefit on the mouse is real as you am said it prevents wearing out’ but you click a lot with a mouse.

Never heard of button wearing out on a phone…

The original Home buttons wore out all the time. My 3GS and iPhones 4 and 5 each had a home button replacement. Of course they went solid state with that ASAP. Granted the other buttons seem to wear out a lot less.

I’m not saying they should do it, just that they could probably make it work. I often don’t like the sound of things they do but then when I try it realize it’s actually a good idea. Not always.