Are Buttons Going Away…or Coming Back?

[@N.Cognito]

Don't use your phone while you drive, but heres a giant tablet for you to play with while on the freeway.

[@jaysontalento9035]

Exactly, I seen some Car Manufacturer makes the Hazard Light Button part of a Touch Control. Annoying when its not reactive as a Button do, specially on Emergency situations.

[@integerofdoom69]

I refuse to buy this trash

[@ElCidCampeador1994]

Also, in some countries, like Spain, you can drive at night with lights on, because a safety thing, so the tablet should have a dark mode at night and is a thing I didnt hear.

[@YogiTheBearMan]

And we put all your controls on there so you have to look at it while driving to change anything

[@youdontknowme5969]

No sh*t, right? The last car I rented, I had to peck through several menus just to change an FM station then change the air flow of the climate control. And, it was so garishly bright at night, and it didn't change brightness when the headlights were on. I ended up throwing a hand towel over the darn thing.

[@Soupat2]

The fact that some cars don’t have real buttons genuinely pisses me off because besides for that one deficit they are great cars, however I would not buy one because of crappy electronic interfaces. If I have to access a frickin’ menu to raise the AC temperature, that is enough friction to increase the risk of distracted driving and create a generally poor experience. 😔

[@classicrockonly]

Another stupid thing is these cars have complex interfaces that are difficult to navigate, but Apple is taking away huge %s of your music menu in CarPlay while driving so you HAVE to use your phone to find your music

[@integerofdoom69]

And the interfaces are always run by dirt nasty SOCs that make the interface as responsive as a stoned sloth.

[@rotmistrzjanm8776]

Funniest part is it's due to safety reasons and to be more percise - safety validation. You have to validate (and pay) for every phisical button while for screen... well you validate only screen.

[@CentreMetre]

I genuinely think its not just bad UI, its actively dangerous

[@TheZoenGaming]

Not to mention the fact that cars are using computers that are nearly 10x more powerful than they need but are so poorly coded that they work like computers that are underpowered and 10 years outdated.

[@ghostxfairy]

Putting all the controls in a touch screen in cars is just one huge cost cutting measure that they’ve fooled consumers into thinking is futuristic

[@zyeborm]

Literally the only reason is it's cheaper and fashion

[@neondemon5137]

There's nothing more satisfying than a high quality button.

[@Zanzubaa]

I see a nice 2-way SPST toggle panel mount and i'm DAYUM BB WHERE HAVE YOU BIN ALL MA LIFE!

[@DocTime56]

Oh completely agree with that. That’s why I LOVE my dad’s 91 Ford Ranger. There’s something satisfying in activating the turn signals and your beams

[@pietroalessandrini]

Touchscreens for important controls in cars should be illegal

Came out of a long tunnel and it was raining like hell. Instantly the front window was fogged up and I could only see a very few couple of meters in front of me. As it was a rental electric car, it was a dangerous situation trying to find the AC controls in a unfamiliar interface, driving in 90 km/t with no visibility. I will never buy a car without physical buttons for the important stuff. Same goes for other electronics, if I dust of my PS3, I don't want it to turn on. If I adjust the headset position, I don't want to turn up the volume etc.

[@alejandroguzmanmartin-onda6349]

That's one of the few things I use the voice assistant for. I like the fact that I can say "Unfog the windshield" and it has that specifically programmed in.

[@alejandroguzmanmartin-onda6349]

In fact, in Europe at least, physical controls will be required for new models. I like that, but I hope they can keep touchscreen and specially voice controls along physical ones.

[@cyberrb25]

@@alejandroguzmanmartin-onda6349 Voice controls are fine, just as handsfree calling on the road is - it will distract you from the road, but only marginally more than talking with other people inside the car is as well.

[@TeKodaSinn]

Tesla originally tried to do away with all forms of physical control besides wheel and pedal. They wanted to do away with the wheel stalks so you need a touch screen for turn signals and lights. The gov happily told them to get bent.

[@YdenMk-II]

I miss the physical home and back buttons that were on android phones back in the day.

[@neoasura]

Same, and what was nice about that, no screen burn in of the back and home buttons like you get nowadays.

[@Warp2090]

Having everything on a touchscreen in a car is just distracting. Having a simple small touchscreen with physical power and volume knobs is fine.

[@12thMandalorian]

Proven to cause my accidents

[@sujimayne]

Why does the touchscreen need to be small... or simple? You know that a lot of cars have big screens with lots of functions AND physical buttons?

[@Warp2090]

@@sujimayne cars with big screens are super distracting

[@Warp2090]

@@sujimayne A simpler interface and smaller design makes it less distracting

[@t.n.-js6ei]

Why? Everyone who drives only listens to the same two or three channels so the same radio type of radio that's been in cars for about 70 or so years works just fine. The average American is fat and overweight precisely due to the ease of modern life and not getting off of their asses and actually perform physical work.

[@ktheveg]

My mom's toyota has a balance of touchscreen to physical buttons. For most common functions, it's a physical button (Climate control, volume). There are physical buttons to navigate to specific touchscreen menus, and finally most touchscreen buttons get disabled while the car is moving, and text messages get replaced with "Message content cannot be viewed while vehicle is in motion". The driving wheel has lots of buttons that you can use to do a lot of common stuff that the touchscreen would be for (so you can change the station or change the volume by pressing a button near your thumb). Distinct feeling for each button, so your eyes are focused on the road and your hands are always ready to respond to a road hazard (also naturally forces you to keep your hands at the 9 and 3 position). Plus the touchscreen is quite handy for doing extra stuff like changing between AM/FM radio or bluetooth (the change station buttons now acts as the next/prev song). It's a great car, and I like its touchscreen/button ratio.

[@mchammer5592]

My favorite technological milestone was when manufacturers realized they only needed one button that you could hold for various, unrelated lengths of time to perform a dozen of different actions. It’s always fun to know that the Bluetooth play button will unpair and factory reset when held a millisecond too long.

[@kensmith5694]

We have had that for a really long time. You can send long complicated messages with instructions to people telling them to do things. It is called Morse code

[@viloxy]

1:09 you guys messed up the dynamic island

[@thebemabogale3439]

sooooo freaking bad. yuck

[@sandrahiltz]

For cars the government really needs to step in and make moving all controls to touchscreens illegal as they are simply far too dangerous.

[@Menon9767]

Not really, they are just slightly worse. Obviously people have done extensive research on it

[@tigersupercat]

Totally agree, indicators, lights, heater controls all need to be physical buttons for the main functions, I can drive my car and operate those features without having to look for them in a group of menus.

[@sandrahiltz]

@@Menon9767 yup, research that's shown how bad they are, basically as bad as using your phone while driving, unfortunately you have CEOs with more teeth than brain cells that prefer to go with their own opinion over actual facts.

[@rotmistrzjanm8776]

Funniest part is it's due to safety reasons and to be more percise - safety validation. You have to validate (and pay) for every phisical button while for screen... well you validate only screen.

[@gamechannel1271]

Never a better time to just buy an old car and replace a few parts / paint it to get it working like new.

[@hueluca]

Touch interfaces are simply cheaper than mechanical buttons

[@integerofdoom69]

I hate touchscreens. I loathe capacitive buttons.

[@Warp2090]

True, but apple will still charge way too much

[@Soupat2]

That is one of the ways Tesla and other newer car companies make so much profit: by selling a stripped-down vehicle and calling it futuristic minimalism.

[@TheBondsJamesBonds]

Also more robust. The screen may break, but the A button won’t. It’s removing dozens of points of failure. I don’t like it. It’s just an additional consideration.

[@jonathaningram8157]

And less prone to breaking

[@lars9925]

I use Android Auto for music and maps, I don't want any car functions buried under that

[@t.n.-js6ei]

Buy a physical map and stop every time you need to look at it, thus avoiding an accident where you can possibly kill the other people in the vehicle that you hit while being distracted. When I drive, I keep put the map out of my reach so I can't easily get to it requiring me to stop and get it. When I'm not driving alone, the person that I'm with and engaging in conversation to, has the map and gives me pertinent information when required or asked. This assumes that people A know how to read & B know what a map is. Neither of which in today's society is guaranteed for the majority of mankind.

[@lars9925]

@@t.n.-js6ei Google maps is not a dangerous distraction at all.

[@chris1549]

Let's not forget, buttons in a car feel so much cooler than any tablet ever will.

[@kensmith5694]

Yes! They add a feel of quality

[@SkylerB17]

Part of me misses full QWERTY sliding phones. Im still mad i was a bit too young for the Sidekick.

[@SmallSpoonBrigade]

I had a Backflip for a little while, it was a great concept, unfortunately, it was massively underpowered and choked under the weight of all the preinstalled apps that couldn't be removed. But, I loved the form factor, I hated that it was so bloated with apps I didn't need that it struggled to connect to the network. It had a physical keyboard on the back that could be flipped as needed.

[@t.n.-js6ei]

I miss phone booths, rotary dials, and being able to talk to someone not glued to their phone and ignoring what is happening around them.

[@carlwheezer1544]

2:30 im using a phone with a qwerty physical keyboard

[@calebpace8788]

Depending on how you use your phone. I could see folks using Bluetooth mouse and keyboard as a remote terminal for their home/work PC in the future.

[@mbsfaridi]

Are there any new phones that have that?

[@Devon7839]

I'm the guy who owns the Bolt EUV that was features in a shortcircuit about two years ago. GM has gotten a pretty good setup going between the Bolts and the VIP based vehicles as far as physical buttons goes in my opinion. All the usual controls you expect on the stalks in a GM vehicle are there and they have multimedia and climate controls on physical buttons as well as being accessible through the entertainment system. I really like the design of my Bolt over all, aside from some small hiccups. Now as far as phones go, I go the exact opposite way. Power and volume, thats all I need, especially if the extra button is something like Samsung's Bixby button, which I promptly remapped as soon as they opened up those settings, and then continued to never use anyway. My Z Fold 4 was an amazing phone in that regard (aside from its early retirement due to a failure of the wifi and then cell communication chips) as it only has the three buttons, and then everything else is on the touch screen. I think the reason people like it that way because a cell phone is meant to be used primarily while looking at the device and a car requires you to operate it while looking in a relatively fixed direction. I wouldn't want a gun or a drill to have touchscreen interfaces for the same reason, and I really don't think designers should be fucking with that paradigm, again, in my opinion.

[@AndyK.1]

I want a home button and finger print reader

[@classicrockonly]

I had the pleasure to drive a Tesla in AZ. It started getting hot in the car as I was driving through Phoenix. I didn't have AC for quite some time because of how janky it is to futz through menus to find a basic feature

[@integerofdoom69]

All while trying to now plow through a playground.

[@chillingpaully4137]

I rented a Mazda 3 for a week and it has a screen, with a big knob to interact with the screen. It's brilliant IMO. There's also physical buttons for AC and music too. But I can keep my right hand relaxed and screw with the map if I need to. A touch screen requires you to lean forward and try and steady your hand while driving which I find to be a massive pain.

[@max5183]

I rented a car 2 weeks ago, and it had everything on the toichscreen aside from the volume. It is actually dangerous how much time you spend not looking at the road, when just changing the temperature. You need to swipe up from a small menu, then hit the exact space where the + or - sign is for the temp. Then close the menu again, rwaching all the way to the passenger side. Yes i have to open and close, bc i want to see the navigation otherwise. That is so much more effort and takes more time than a simple knob i can turn and feel physically. While im all for EVs when the range has improved for my needs and as a techy i have nothing against a good computer inside my car, there are limits. As long as the car isnt fully selfdriving, i need controls to be easy to operate while driving 100mph.

[@integerofdoom69]

I can't believe this shit is allowed.

[@STICKOMEDIA]

2:40 no!!! my precious car buttons!!!

[@CatCread16]

I much prefer buttons and knobs in cars rather than a touch screen

[@HedgehogY2K]

2:00 harming functionality and performance doesn't sound PREMIUM TO ME!!!

[@Ray_of_Light62]

The camera button on the new Iphone is a fingerprint sensor. Apple needs to bring back an audio jack and an SD-card slot. A friend of mine commented: "They will, but only if they lose more of the phone market"...

[@YogiTheBearMan]

I figured you were going to say bring back Touch ID. I’d love to have it and Face ID on my phone for when I have a helmet on or gloves on

[@Lemoncit0]

At this point too many people moved to Bluetooth earphones to the point that it would be a waste of space to have a jack port. SD card is not that hard to implement but they will never do it because that way they will be able to upsell you and promote iCloud

[@God-ld6ll]

there will be an scp that will give you buttons where you don't want them

[@STICKOMEDIA]

Lmao

[@SamuelLing]

A button where if you accidentally pressed it, you need to do 1 push up

[@alejandroguzmanmartin-onda6349]

@@SamuelLing I drive several models of cars at work. I was fiddling with the side button on one of the steering wheel levers, trying to activate the wippers. I realized of my terrible, terrible misstake, when the seatbelt tightened, as I remembered that in that car, being it automatic and the manufacturer trying to remove as much clutter as possible from where the stick used to be, decided that the button I was using would be wired to the electronic handbrake, and that a long press would activate the emergency braking. I went from 120km/h to about 70 in a flash. Thanks god that the van I had behind was not tailgating. It was my fault afterall, but the bad desing choice was theirs.

[@Aragorn7884]

I miss the Sidekick keyboard 🥹😭

[@thexgamer8240]

Physical buttons to Apple: *You can’t live with your own failure. And where does that take you? Back to me.*

[@itsgrimace]

Ancap and Ncap are going to deny top safety ratings if physical buttons aren't present for certain features moving forward so there must be some compelling data to suggest it's inherently unsafe having all touch in cars.

[@EvanPang-w4i]

I love that my dad’s 2018 Buick that I’ve been driving has a display for hands free calling and physical volume/ac controls

[@BotanicalBasil]

Well, we just watched a man describe how buttons work for five minutes. We'll never get that time back.

[@Zemi.Andersen]

The first(, and only) laugh during the day, comes 9/10 times from Riley, and LTT

[@robin.francis.rayner]

WANT BUTTONS ON PHONES & TABLETS & BIOMETRICS!

[@noam242]

Now that I think about it, cars with touchscreens would benefit so much from gesture tech. Use 3 fingers up or down to change the ac. Or use 2 fingers to swipe right or left to specific car controls mode such as volume or media control etc.

[@integerofdoom69]

No... buttons and knobs or they're getting a hot sauce enema.

[@reggiep75]

Tactile buttons definitely let you know when you have clicked something. As for Apple's 'Action Button's that's just crappy marketing in trying to make a case for putting a button back onto a phone and pretending that they are pioneers of doing it. My last few phones (all rugged phones) have had buttons that you could assign functions to essentially saving you time scrolling thru pages or menus, so it's nothing new.

[@chrisbaker8533]

Nah, it's just cheaper than real buttons/controls. Also, i don't really see how a button is going to interfere with the antenna any more than the housing itself would. Of course we're talking about 'you're holding it the wrong way' apple here, so nothing would surprise me about something being a design flaw that screws up performance. Personally, i'd love to have physical keyboards make a comeback on phones. Really miss those slide outs.

[@hooby_9066]

Buttons in phones and buttons in cars seem like two very different topics. In phones, physical buttons also cause challenges with water proofing, as well as bend resistance/stiffness. Apart from that, with buyers generally having a desire for largest screen size with smallest bezels - there really isn't much space to put buttons to begin with, and some of that space around the border has to stay empty, to make the phone comfortable to hold. Cars on the other hand... there getting rid of buttons is often a cost-cutting measure. Not that the buttons themselves are all that expensive, but if you have a lot of them, and they also need to get installed and have cables routed to them, and be tested - and you have to deal with the logistics of providing replacements for repairs for many years to come. All taken together that does add up. And the touchscreen is needed anyways, because it's needed for navigation. So you can't skimp on that either.

[@jeremyharriet]

The button functionality looks great, but yeah, it could be an issue for road safety.

[@MichaelMHl5]

We just use the buttons with a nice case, and we’re all set 😅

[@LukmanMannir]

I have one from Vionentus that makes me happy and I feel like a million bucks because it’s leather lol

[@gamecubeplayer]

why does this 7 hour old comment have 330 likes?

[@Ethanxz1969]

I'm VERY distracted this would be the end for me 😅

[@kev_brooks76]

@@LukmanMannir I use the black leather one, and I've shown it off way too much HAHA

[@rabbytca]

Who needs a steering wheel, just make the touch screen round and you can stare into it the whole time while going down the road. Front, rear and side cameras with a split screen and virtual buttons everywhere is not confusing and difficult is it??? Saves on chipped and cracked windshield claims right?

[@sirTyperys]

i miss when phone navbars were actual physical buttons.

[@DryPaperHammerBro]

I don't

[@guestc142]

I really miss them. The priority now is form over function. People would rather have a good looking phone than have a phone that's actually comfortable to use.

[@graikonungr7502]

Ehh, gesture controls have become pretty efficient. I miss dual front facing speakers, NOT one front and one bottom-and of course, headphone jacks.

[@smallbutdeadly931]

@@graikonungr7502 I'm glad I can still use the 3-button navigation on all modern android devices (even though they're not real buttons)

[@graikonungr7502]

@@smallbutdeadly931 Aye, the digital ones are alright, especially when they're hidden during fullscreen videos and whatnot.

[@patlefofort]

I'd like buttons that behave like buttons. Not hold 3 seconds to do X and 5 seconds to do Y. Double tap, hold 3.675 seconds but not 3.676, lick twice, turn your device upside down depending on the phase of the moon.

[@batyanko8283]

Good luck keeping your eyes on the road, trying to tap on the right thing

[@icedude_907]

A user-customisable physical button on phones will be so good (if the API exposes it & android follows suit). In games even, having a third button without needing to claw grip is huge. Strike that off my wishlist, still waiting for a second USB C port (which we'll probably never get).

[@MoroseMoe]

In cars it's 95% cost reduction and 5% design choice to remove the buttons, although they never publicly admit that. The cost saving is 2-fold: 1st you have the direct savings of not having to design, machine and connect all the buttons; 2nd is a relatively huge cost when re-releasing the same car model with a facelift - you need to update the look of the buttons so you are repeating the design cost and having to change or adjust the machining process. If instead you just put a tablet in, the facelift is as simple as a software update.

[@timtomnec]

touch screens in a car is a designer that never has driven on a dirt road

[@CalledTurnAGundam]

More buttons have meant more errant presses. I wish Apple would change it to some kind of mute-slider button hybrid, so I can flip it off to lock it, and flip it on to unlock and engage with the actual button mechanism when I need it.

[@kensmith5694]

1:36 I want that phone. I really-really miss the slide out keyboard. I could actually do an email with a significant number of words in it with the keypad. Now with the in screen keyboardy thing, an email will be OK or NO and not much more. I even had a basic interpreter on my phone so I could write programs on it to do stuff. I could easily do something like make a program wait for a while then take a picture etc.

[@Steelebourne]

I went from a 2002 Saturn to a 2025 Kia last month. The all digital aspect really felt great during my test drives, but I now absolutely hate it with a passion, and really don't feel safe at times. No buttons except for very tiny ones on the steering wheel, which don't work great. Having to take my eyes off the road to switch from media (which is a separate nightmare of its own to use) to climate, then locate the tiny control on the far right of the smaller screen, just to simply adjust the fan speed is so cumbersome & dangerous. I really miss the simple physical buttons & sliders of my old car, and especially the CD player!

[@blatantpowder]

there's also programmable physical buttons in some cars now, so there's that too

[@vladislavkaras491]

Huh... It was quite an interesting fact you have mentioned here about the countries having the car experience prior to the touch screen era. Thanks for the video!

[@sodapone]

Just because they prefer it doesn't mean it's safer. When I went to China in 2016 to visit relatives, nobody in the city ever wore a seatbelt. Everyone patently refused to at every single opportunity-not even my relatives. I was some kind of square for always wearing a seatbelt every single time, and I could never convince anyone to join me. My Mom who's been to China more often told me about how in newer cars, people get bare seatbelt buckles to insert so that the seatbelt reminder turns off without them having to wear a seatbelt. Ironically, when my relatives come to visit me, they do buckle up because they know we'd get pulled over for not doing it...

[@elicook19]

The other part of the car touchscreen situation is also due to the fact that it’s actually just wayyyy cheaper to just get a big touchscreen and incorporate all of the features in software. Rather than designing and manufacturing and installing all of the individual parts. More buttons = more cost and automotive companies will do anything to eliminate as many parts as possible to save money on the total cost of a vehicle

[@igameidoresearchtoo6511]

And despite that they markup their cars like hell.

[@lodgin]

It's also a lot easier to remove functions from a car during software updates _and not have customers realise,_ when there's no physical button there to remind them.

[@kavurigowtham]

4:00 wiper quickie

[@Robotboy655]

Another point in favor of touch screen controls - updates. Having the ability to add, remove or just move a button to a better place is convenient for the developer, and arguably for the end user when adding features or reworking interfaces to be more intuitive. That being said, this is definitely taken way too far with cars in particular (but other tech as well) with common controls not having physical buttons, or having capacitive buttons instead.

[@matthiasredler5760]

My original Nokia 6310i works fine with many Buttons. I still can phone and writing sms. It have a great signal quality and the battery last more than a week!

[@pacmon5285]

Buttons interfering with signal.. What, they've never heard of shielding? Lol

[@queden1841]

4:04 well these shitty things are all the same so you're very likely to press the one next to the one you wanted blindely. And then you have to undo that action keeping you distracted even longer

[@Smetwork]

Buttons for the common functions is a must in a car. Whoever thought it was safe to look and navigate a screen while driving..

[@GhostKoffee]

One thing about screens that absolutely pisses me off is that many gas stations around my area Have resorted to on screen buttons for the pumps it absolutely sucks trying to use them in the rain or cold 😮‍💨

[@reykoranteng9089]

Touch interfaces are cheaper in cars, they put them there even to the detrement of the customer! Also, nobody likes non-fuctioning, laggy interfaces buried in different menus just to control basics *while driving*. (sorry for my bad Eng)

[@Mihnea729]

Sure !

[@Medabee8]

1:22 - what is a screen unlock button? Thats the power button

[@itsdeonlol]

Just keep your eyes on the road at all times!!!

[@gabiballetje]

For some things buttons are simply a must, for the feedback of pushing it, which can be faked somewhat with haptic feedback, but in the first place to feel where the button is. FPS games on phones and tablets suck, you slide/drift off way too easy, do not feel where you are or how much you're steering in your fingers etc. I do understand those buttons mean more connections and possible interference and another chance for errors in manufacturing and water resistance and it look cooler when smooth, but i still want them, and well, in some places, buttons are just cooler and safer too. A screen can malfunction or loser power, controls gone, while buttons elswhere are then not affected and you might still be able to use them, on of the flaws in Star Trek if you ask me.

[@wharpblast264]

As you get older it gets harder to see both distance and close up at the same time. You are going to need glasses for one or the other. So driving having to look at a screen is going to be a problem. Maybe voice recognition is the answer. Got to be able to distinguish drivers voice from kids in the back though. For now sticking with my 17 year old Ford.

[@cyberrb25]

I'd be even more adamant and make it so regular use controls on cars be mandated to be physical actionables to let the car be usable on the country.

[@Franzotm]

Most people don't even like the camera button or use it often, so they should've done something better like have 120hz on the base models and have way faster charging.

[@OrionKaelinClips]

Also buttons make waterproofing more difficult

[@kensmith5694]

The water problem was solved long ago. A lot of outdoor equipment can be dunked in water

[@Eminetics]

It’s like with cars, now that the novelty has worn out it’s obvious that the consumer does not want touchscreens for the automobile.

[@CyberPunkMonkey2069]

Need more buttons with the option to customize what they do

[@purenatural5736]

You forgot to mention that for car manufacturers it’s cheaper to put a screen with all controls than putting buttons due to manufacturing costs.

[@c0d3warrior]

More buttons less, less buttons more? 😂

[@TheMatthewDMerrill]

Had rented a car earlier this year and they gave me a 2023 Ford mustang. It has this giant screen and nearly all the buttons were gone and just put on the screen. It made sense but was absolutely annoying to use. I hate this trend. While driving nothing should take my eyes off the road for more than a second and which is why buttons were the best because once you know the car enough, you can just feel the button or the area and know what to press/turn. With these giant screens you get nothing. No feedback or anything

[@deleted-something]

I liked the 3 buttons being on the button back in the day

[@NERODIEM]

It’s a sourcing thing fewer buttons fewer things to delay a build. You’re welcome procurement professional

[@zen1647]

I'd love a physical mute switch, and a hold switch. The advantage of switches is you can determine their state without looking at the screen. Touchscreens in cars is stupid. Look at F1, everything is still done with switches, buttons, dials and paddles.

[@Martinroadsguy]

The perception that fewer buttons on phones makes them sexier is purely manufactured by marketing. Phones with fewer buttons are simpler to manufacture and it can save a significant amount of money. It could be pennies per unit but could save millions of dollars by the time they're done manufacturing that model.

[@henrikhjerppe8804]

I just always assumed manufacturers avoid physical buttons to save on parts cost.

[@HokgiartoSaliem]

I hope microSD card slot can be back like button, now with support v8 standard that can read / write GBPS.

[@godsfilmmaker8863]

*writer of this episode* buttons….buttons…buttons….phone….buttons

[@RobShootPhotos]

I don’t understand the less button makes it look better, especially in cars. I find it as a lazy design. Button design can look really good or bad and be simple or complicated. The annoying part is in one vehicle, turning down the volume on my steering wheel is in the same position as shutting off the cruise control in another vehicle.

[@ELMolliez]

Personally i really liked when we had dedidcated buttons on the side, and they could be a shortcut for whatever you wanted and really liked gestures on the OnePlus lineup... But that didn't caught on. 😢

[@45545videos]

Give me more buttons, more ports, more control

[@chip43]

Also buttons cost more than a screen and a screen can be anything

[@ven7165]

I like buttons because I can feel what I'm working with and not have to look over as much.

[@Sarafan92]

Take a shot every time Riley says button.

[@christopherguy1217]

You can't keep your eyes on the road with a touch screen. Buttons are safer than looking at a touch screen, especially things like wipers.

[@Steve30x]

The only physical buttons I need on my phone is the volume buttons and power button. I don't like iOS because there's no on screen navigation buttons. Even on my android 14 Honor pad 9 I have the option to enable the navigation buttons instead of gestures everywhere.

[@ChibiSteak]

5:24 fin.

[@diwangmittal8067]

Next year's iphone's msp would be a capture port (basically a 3.5mm headphone jack)

[@starksuman]

i am so obsessed with qwerty keypad that if a company make a good 5g qwerty phone with android on it i will switch over to it in no time

[@redaceFR]

I think talking about this problem from a "design" perspective was an interesting approach but you missed probably the most significant element making buttons disappear in cars (and everywhere else) : the cost and complexity it requires. Putting on physical buttons means that you need to design, integrate and build a physical switch that needs to be precisely thought of. You also need to account for the physical wires and connections to your electronic circuits, which are costly and difficult to route around hidden inside of your device. There is also the problem of wear, a physical button WILL be damaged over time with use and finally break. Touchscreens and touch sensing buttons have no moving part that can wear and will survive for significantly longer than clicky buttons. So having everything on a screen that requires no more connections to implement a new function is very budget friendly when you only need to develop the software once and upload it to your millions of devices without putting more effort (and money) putting said button as a physical element inside the same millions of cars. I'm not saying it's a good thing, I also hate full touchscreen interfaces, but that's the reality of the engineering behind those choices. Edit: typos fixed

[@iMajed]

Buttons provide more safety than touch screens.

[@ManunKanava]

Touch screens on cars are also really bad for old people since their fingers dont really work that well on touch screens if they have done physical work all their life.

[@byrd203]

we have had the camera button via the volume up for almost the very beginning of the the iPhone basically so I don't get why we needed a deadcated button volume up did it for a while

[@gir489returns2]

HEY HIS MUSTACHE WASN'T POACHED! I WAS LIED TO!!!!!!!!!

[@NatesHomeTours]

I hate cars with no buttons, Like my Jeep, if I want to change the temp or turn it to defrost or change the fan speed, I have to go into a climate menu and go thru 3 touch screen menus to change the temp, but lets not play on our phones. Just look at the the big screen in the middle. Some car brands are even worse.

[@theendofit]

Id love if some of these foldable three screen phones droped one screen for a keyboard

[@adrianosiciliano]

The wipers joke cought me off guard hahahaha

[@ChrisCarlos64]

My car has some buttons, but much of the interface for controlling media is touch only, with exception to just skip tracks. I don't get this and it's awful. Yes, I can use voice to select music, but it still isn't there. It won't know when I mean an album, or have a foreign artist or album I want or song that isn't in English, etc. I don't get why I cannot use some buttons, especially the control pad on my wheel. I coudl navigate my radio and even when my cars hooked up to my mp3 or iPod device, I was able to select tracks, albums, playlists, etc. with just a few key pressed, know where I was, and be done with it. Why haven't we gotten this right already? I should be able to know if I press left left up, I am at albums, or right right down, and I'm at playlists, or what have you, It should also be to where I can just know six pressed down gets me to my playlist I like or press up at the top of the list gives me my newest one I just made.