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Comment by hardwaresofton | Hacker News Reader

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> it's not the same, but apple could add the home button on the side, even if they remove it from the front. it could incorporate the fingerprint sensor like the ipad, or they could use an in-display fingerprint sensor, combined with the removal of the front camera, and voilà, their holy grail single slab of glass iphone!

This is such a huge design question -- the button layout of the phone is now muscle memory for me! I do wonder if they'd make such a drastic change.

> i still use my trusty 6S because i prefer the fingerprint scanner and home button, plus having a real headphone jack is useful every now and then.

That's exactly what I upgraded from. I do miss my real headphone jack!

What's your plan for support/new devices going forward?

i'd put the button where the thumb lands on the right side (even though i'd personally prefer the left, most people would prefer the right). i do love that i can put my phone upside down in my back pocket and lift it out with my thumb on the button and have it be open to the home screen when it's face up in front of me.

my plan is, i'm gonna use this thing until it dies! =) but no, i'll probably upgrade next year, as the 6S no longer gets ios updates as of this year but i see no need to upgrade quite yet. i'm not sure if i'll get a 13 mini (assuming no more minis to come) or splurge and get a 15 (that i don't really need, but it'll be new and shiny and irresistable).

Not GP, but I also still run a 6S(+). I recently replaced the battery using an iFixIt kit, which fixed my main complaint with it.

It still runs dog-slow, especially on modern websites, which is both bad and good in that if I keep the Reddit app uninstalled and use New Reddit, the memory leaks crashing my Safari tab is a good indication to stop using it :-) Unfortunately HN doesn't have such a feature...

I didn't hear about the iOS 16 dropping support rumors until now :-(. But apparently the security updates will keep coming for a few years. I guess once apps start dropping support for iOS 15, I'll have to switch.

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