I can understand your preference, but the prevailing aesthetic seems to be going in the direction of completely removing physical controls. To be perfectly fran

I can understand your preference, but the prevailing aesthetic seems to be going in the direction of completely removing physical controls. To be perfectly frank, seeing earlier-than-current iPads and iPhones with physical home buttons strikes me as kind of quaint. I greatly prefer the entirely software-defined interface of the latest devices. I suppose I can trace that preference all the way back to being fascinated with the Star Trek: The Next Generation LCARS (Library Computer Access & Retrieval System), which (to quote the Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual written by Mike Okuda and Rick Sternbach from teenage memory) was “expressly designed to suggest a highly simplified manner of managing vastly complicated processes” or some such. If you really want to be sure it isn’t listening to you you can turn it off and/or leave it in another room.