Iphone 7's biggest issue is its home button, not the headphone jack

[vivster]

Pemalite said:

vivster said:

The winter argument is stupid. If you don't have touchscreen gloves you won't be able to operate the phone either even if you can press the home button.

I wear Motocycle gloves and I have never had an issue with *any* phone in regards to operation in years, regardless of brand. (Nokia, Samsung or Apple.)

vivster said:

They did this because space within a smartphone is premium, every cubic millimeter counts. So they will eliminate everything that consumes too much space. Big USB ports, big home buttons, big camera lenses, headphone jacks, SD slots etc. How do you think they'r still able to improve the phones without actually growing in size?

But Phones have been growing in size?


Heck, Apple's iPhone 6 plus was the first iPhone to grow significantly in size with it's 5.5" Phablet form factor.

Other companies also don't tend to make cutbacks like throwing away large and effective camera sensors, headphones jacks, USB etc'.
And also typically have larger capacity battery's and still increase performance every year with better processors, more ram, larger storage etc'.

That means you will also have no trouble with the new home button.

Smartphone components will shrink if we want to or not. The fact that only apple is doing the drastic changes first doesn't mean the others won't follow. Remember when people slammed iPhone for not having expandable storage? Samsung followed and now it's no big deal. Remember when iPhones were slammed for not having removable batteries? Samsung followed and now it's not a problem. Remember when MS was slammed for demanding money for online? Sony followed and now it's not a problem.

These "issues" people currently have with home buttons and headphone jacks will go away pretty quickly. Android phones will definitely lose the jack at some point, though it won't be as much of a problem because by this time USB 3.1 will also be standardized for audio and all headphones will come with usb instead of a jack and no one will care.