Apple to cut home buttons from iPad 2 and iPhone 5?
It is beginning to look as if the “Home” button on Apple’s upcoming iPad 2 and iPhone5 are things of the past, in favor of some new gestures that will do the hard button’s job and perhaps more.
That, of course, is a rumor but it does support yet another rumor from some time back. That one said that Steve Jobs did not want any physical buttons on the iPad, but they were left on because Apple could not gen up a makeover quickly enough to make the tight schedule for the original tablet computer. Still and all, if Steve Jobs does not want physical buttons on the iPad, there are going to be a lot of people doing their best in Cupertino to remove the physical buttons from the iPad. And, while they’re doing that, they are probably going to remove them from the next iPhone as well.
Apparently, the source of this rumor told a tech blogger, “Apple, at some point in time, will remove the home button from the iPad’s design. Instead of button taps, you will use new multitouch gestures to navigate to the home screen and also to launch the app switcher,” according to a CNET story. The same source said he believed that the iPhone would follow suit, which only makes good sense once you have started on the iPad. Apparently, according to the same source, the home-buttonless iPad is already being tested by Apple employees at the company’s Cupertino campus.
Apparently, the new gestures are already being incorporated into the iOS4 software development kit that is used to develop iPad and iPhone applications, which is a pretty big giveaway of Apple’s intentions. As an aside, the same tipster also “confirmed” that the new iPad operating system will also contain its own version of the iPhone picture-taking software, thereby “confirming” the existence of at least one camera in the iPad 2.
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