A similar conversation is probably being held today at Cupertino:
Should we create a buttonless iPhone…?
Pardon me, it’s never “should we create that thing”, but always “can we create it”. The “should we” stage comes later, as with anything else that humanity has made.
Throughout the years, we, the public, have been intercepting parts of the conversation about the buttonless iPhone at Apple’s headquarters.
The iPhone 15 lineup was rumored to come with such a device in it. It was none other than the well-known informer Ming-Chi Kuo who claimed so as back as 2022:
However, that didn’t happen. Actually, things went in the opposite direction, as the iPhone 15 introduced something called the Action button on the Pro duo.
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