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recording on Thursday, June 25th. I have with me today, Dan.

Hello from California.

Welcome. And Mikey from Honolulu.

Aloha.

Mahalo.

So I'm your host Victor.

This is the Apple Insider Podcast and we've got some news for you.

One of the things that happened earlier this week was a rumor about an iPhone without any

home button at all.

The idea was that touch ID would be built in to the display.

Dan, can you tell me what your thoughts are on this?

It's one of those things that sounds like it could be far out in the future.

The concern I have about it, I mean, the obvious benefit is that you can put a bigger screen on a smaller device if you don't have this margin to support a home button.

But also the home button has been a very characteristic element of iOS devices, especially the iPhone, and changing it from a button to touch

ID, it's a very physical thing and you know you can operate the phone without looking at it.

So if you integrate that in the screen it'd be really cool to have basically a touch

ID is a sensor that's scanning your finger.

It's almost like a camera, like a low resolution camera, like a scanner.

So we've seen some patent applications that involve basically taking

that technology and embedding it into the screen so that you could handle both touches and hard presses with force touch and even being able to

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