Apple drops price of 10th Gen iPad from $399 to $349

No more home button.

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Flick up with your finger, just like on latest iPhones.

So it will become near useless as a device used for as part of a sport. I use one for tactics and navigation on a racing sailboat but this will stop for the same reason I had to stop using an iPhone in a waterproof protector on racing dinghies. The screen is both too sensitive and it becomes impossible to do what is needed without the app being accidentally closed and the settings for the race needing to be re-input which takes too long to be feasible.

I used to use an iPhone for navigation while mountain biking but the problems were similar when the button disappeared, so I picked up a Garmin with dedicated buttons. Same will have to happen for sailing. Back to small laptops on boats. Buttons are important. See the move with vehicles to put everything on the center console screen and the end user hatred of the trend.