If you’ve been following Apple since last year, you might remember that the iPhone 15 Pro was expected to have a set of touch-sensitive solid-state buttons, and now it looks like Apple won’t replace the iPhone’s physical buttons. At least another year according to the shareholder letter. “The new product we mentioned in previous shareholder letters is no longer expected to launch this fall as planned,” said Apple supplier Cirrus Logic, which was spotted by MacRumors, according to engadget. .
Cyrus is best known for making some of the components that go into the iPhone’s Taptic Engine. Apple is the company’s biggest customer, accounting for 79% of its revenue in 2022. In November, Cyrus told investors and analysts he was working on a new product. High-Performance Mixed Signal Component (HPMS) (the same class of engine components) and will arrive in smartphones in 2023. This week, Cirrus said it had a “limited vision” of the product’s future. .
Reports that the iPhone 15 Pro will have a set of solid-state buttons come from Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, who said last fall that the company plans to replace the volume and power buttons on its next flagship phone with touch-sensitive buttons. . Last month, Kuo revised his predictions, noting that Apple decided to change its plans due to “technical issues that were not resolved before mass production,” and if nothing else, the development is a reminder to deal with smartphone leaks that have been met with skepticism, especially those which were released months and sometimes years before the announcement.
