iPad 2 May Drop Home Button – Report
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Steve Jobs hates buttons. He has said this before. Multiple times. In a very public fashion. In fact, we’re pretty sure that it has pained him that he’s had to feature the Home button on the iPhone, iPod, and iPad–a single aesthetic imperfection that has nearly driven him crazy, like the lead character in some Nathaniel Hawthorne short story.
Well, it seems that the Apple head may finally be able to live his mobile life in a completely button-free bliss. Word from Boy Genius Report is that the company is set to drop the Home button for some future version of the iPad. In fact, the latest version of iOS (4.3) added multitouch gestures for precisely that reason, according to the site’s “sources.”
The disappearing button will eventually make its way to the iPhone as well, according to the aforementioned report. This aesthetic update may or may not make its way onto iOS devices released in 2011.
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