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When there were physical buttons, it was very popular in Asia to enable the accessibility option to put a virtual one on screen instead, because they were afrai
by astrange 2y ago
When there were physical buttons, it was very popular in Asia to enable the accessibility option to put a virtual one on screen instead, because they were afraid the physical one would break. So it was kind of useless in the end.
- diebeforei485 2y ago> because they were afraid the physical one would break On early models it was actually quite common for the button to stop working after a year or two. The durability has since improved, but habits die hard.
- Terr_ 2y agoI have a pet-theory that certain older folks are cautious with technology because they grew up with stuff that would break expensively if you pressed the buttons in the wrong order. Then when they see younger people just randomly explore-clicking to get things working--because their experience is that it's a safe tactic--that can gets misinterpreted as expertise, leading to: "Wow, kids these days just know technology."
- astrange 2y agoIt actually improved by no longer being a real button, instead it was a fake indent with a pressure sensor that did a haptic "click". But it still took up a lot of space on the front.