Apple Brings Design Change

Mark J Guillen
3 min readAug 10, 2016

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The tech giant has introduced some changes in the home button so much so that it doesn’t have a button.

With regards to the soon to be launched iPhone, it appears like, from multiple points of view, iPhone clients will see some prominent changes in the handset. The tech giant is overhauling its gadget designing and according to the latest information given, Apple is bringing some changes on its button.

Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, who has a great reputation with regards to iPhone spills, reports that the new iPhone will have a vastly different home button. According to said article: “[The] new models will have a button sensitive to pressure that gives input to the client through a vibrating haptic sensation as opposed to a genuine physical snap, according to the sources familiar with the matter.”

In simpler terms, the home button will have the appearance of a physical button but it will not be a button –sounds confusing? Well, it is but the tech giant is no new to innovation. The change is more psychological in all aspect. The physicality of switches and buttons basically give you a sense of touch and a feel of control. In the event where the touch screen is not responding, users always have the tested method of hitting the side button and the power button on their iPhones and get the device physically rebooted.

On a more extensive level, the overhauling of the home button is likely to make the future repair of the Apple handsets a lot more difficult. A few tech titan customers have accused the firm of deliberating making the handsets quite difficult to get repaired. The customers believe that this intentional hurdle in repairing is to make money out of its new hardware. Be that as it may, with no physical button whatsoever and no simple approach to get into the device, it can likely be assumed that no third party can come into business of providing replace parts for the handsets. The alarming concern is that lack of ability to replace a defective part will lessen the overall life span of the device. It is noteworthy that Apple’s in house repair charges are quite high and the consumers generally prefer getting their gadgets repaired from local vendors to save up cost. The overhauling, however, is not laden with disadvantages only. It has few benefits as well and the top one is that it gives less space for outside debris like soil, water, or sand to get in and ruin the handset.

The latest complicated function will have quite negative impact on the devices. This February, numerous individuals were vexed that their phones became inoperable when they got their home button replaced from a third party business. Apple disclosed this was to guarantee that nobody altered the button’s inherent security highlights. That is a sensible clarification. In any case, despite everything it implies that clients need to go to Apple with their repair issues, and conceivably get their entire iPhone supplanted, because of the inconveniences of the home catch. This exclusive stands to deteriorate if the bits of gossip are valid.

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Mark J Guillen

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