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

[Pemalite]

vivster said:

Pemalite said:

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.)

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.

I have no issue with the home button.

And I disagree, the removal of expandable storage and the removable battery in the Galaxy Note 5 was critically panned everywhere, to the point where the Note 7 reintroduced expandable storage, even sales of the note 5 were down overall.
Ironically... If the Note 7 had replaceable batterys, Samsung wouldn't have had to waste billions on a recall... I am happy not to be able to replace my battery though if it means I get another feature in return, such as better water proofing, I do enter harsh environments where salt water and mud can be a thing.

I will never accept a phone without a headphone jack, if it means I go Chinese Oppo/Huwei/Windows Phone, then so be it, I'll add to the Chinese economy instead.