Originally Posted by eschwartz

My reason for wanting the home button back has to do with ease of use. Your objection appears to be directed only at physical buttons, because they may break, am I right? The current home button on the Paperwhite is, for me, more annoying than a breakable physical button -- which for the record, has not broken in all the years I have had it. (Everyone whose buttons have "WEAR OUT, accumulate dirt or lint, break out of their plastic casings, etc." please raise your hand, I'm guessing it is the minority.)

I am not sure we should be comparing Kindles to iPhones... and I would point out that Android also has buttons. But if Google took away the USB connection to their devices, I think a lot of people would be upset. No one cares about that for Apple, because THEY'VE NEVER GIVEN ONE TO BEGIN WITH. I think before you suggest such major changes to the future of handheld device development (purely for the sake of waterproofing, which shouldn't be your main focus, frankly,) you need to make sure you don't break all the current functionality.