The darkest technology on the iPhone 7, this brand new Home button deserved

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Before the iPhone 7 was released, many mobile phones had already made the Home button untouchable and touchable. At the time, they all said that you could not press the Home button. Apple did it. The iPhone7 will do the same thing.

However, the iPhone 7 really did, but look at the fixed-dead home-key phones now, and look at the iPhone 7 Home button. Is that something? In addition to the same form, the experience is the same?

This is a microblog I sent in June this year:

You see a button that has opened a hole. The instinctive approach is to press it hard. Then you find out if this item is completely moving. There is no feedback or no click-button noise. Do you think it was deceived?

This is the sense of falling that the design does not meet with psychological expectations.

So Apple's MacBook's touchpad also canceled the original mechanical buttons, the touchpad fixed dead. Why didn't you think it was cheated? Because Apple has a force touch and taptic ah, their cooperation has simulated the press feedback that I pressed to meet some of my expectations. So, I also control whether it is a button, Apple replaced the mechanical buttons with higher-tech things without affecting the experience.

Two things that are not the same, even if they are the same in form, but the experience is very different.

Now take a look at this passage and look at Apple's interpretation of the new Home button.

Also, I noticed this sentence in the copy:

Support intensity sensing. It can be used with the new Taptic Engine to provide precise tactile feedback when you press and can be customized.

When I saw this sentence, I was shocked by the whole person, because in June I also sent a microblog:

If Apple cancels the button switch and retains only fingerprint recognition, it will add a pressure touch similar to that on a Mac, and will use the vibration of the Taptic Engine to simulate the effect of key feedback.

Before I wondered if the Taptic Engine above the iPhone could simulate the key effect, this is the key to the good or bad experience. The vibrating elements on the Mac are ten times larger than those on the iPhone. The vibration frequency is low, and it is completely fake.

Therefore, there are two technical points that need to be overcome:

1. Add pressure sensing in the button area, not shared with the screen, but controlled separately.

2. The improved Taptic Engine simulates real button feedback.

Apple actually made it on the mobile phone. The Home button increased pressure sensitivity and improved the Taptic Engine. According to the intensity of pressing the Home button, the Taptic Engine gave feedback on the corresponding quake so that you thought you pressed a mechanical button. Actually, this is technology. The combination with science and technology is a good deception.

If there is any black technology on the iPhone 7, I think this brand new button deserves it.

Finally, I say a few words about my design of the iPhone7.

Apple's design philosophy headed by Jonathan I think everyone has a bit of cognition, that is to do a more integrated product than integration.

From the NewMacBook's thinner and lighter, metal ratio, cancel the interface only to leave the USB and headphones, and then to the iPhone7, cancel the headset hole, the camera is raised from the original assembly into the current one, only one antenna bar, Home button Fixed, new bright black and front panel 2.5D glass match to achieve a common dazzling reflex.

This is the new iPhone, more integrated.

What kind of form will the iPhone appear in the future?

Think irresponsibly:

The Home button is missing and integrated into the front panel.

The button disappears and is replaced by a force sensing sensor.

The Lightning interface is replaced by wireless charging.

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