Pressing the Side Button to Confirm Payments on iPhone X

<p><pre><code> The reason why Apple requires you to press the physical side button to confirm a purchase with Apple Pay or in the App Store is because pressing the side button can’t be faked by an app. If it was an on-screen button, a nefarious app could present a fake Apple Pay button. With any normal app, clicking the side button once will always lock the screen, and double-clicking will put you in Apple Pay mode. Only Apple’s own software can override the side button like this. Double clicking the side button to confirm a purchase effectively guarantees that it was a legitimate payment experience. </code></pre> To what end? You don&#x27;t enter a password or anything when using Apple Pay, so the only thing this &quot;nefarious&quot; app could do is trick you into <i>thinking</i> that you paid for something you didn&#x27;t. And wouldn&#x27;t this sort of thing get caught in app review and&#x2F;or get the app yanked from the store when discovered? I honestly can&#x27;t figure out what the downside would be to having a &quot;pay with Apple Pay&quot; button on the screen.<p>As an aside, I don&#x27;t like having to press the side button for Apple Pay on my iPhone X. I usually have to shift how I&#x27;m holding it to get the proper leverage to double-press the button. Double pressing the home button was way easier.

Gruber is a bit of a shill, but he’s usually entertaining and can be informative. This should be on the front page. Are people flagging it?

Why not show a graphic of the iPhone X on an angle with its side button being pushed?<p>Seems like a much better idea than introducing this new UX. You can show both if you want to teach users the new UX.

Gruber says Daring Fireball is always blacklisted from the HN homepage. Is that really the case? If so, why?<p>Anyway, the worst thing about him is his double standards.<p>For example, when Samsung announced the Galaxy S III Mini, he said the specs were “rather lame”, with “slower processor and a mere 800 × 480 pixel display”: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;daringfireball.net&#x2F;linked&#x2F;2012&#x2F;10&#x2F;10&#x2F;4-inch-samsung" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;daringfireball.net&#x2F;linked&#x2F;2012&#x2F;10&#x2F;10&#x2F;4-inch-samsung</a>.<p>A few days later, his review of the iPad Mini didn’t even mention the processor — slower than the iPad’s. And he obviously was much more careful with his words regarding the screen resolution (no “lame” is found in the review): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;daringfireball.net&#x2F;2012&#x2F;10&#x2F;ipad_mini" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;daringfireball.net&#x2F;2012&#x2F;10&#x2F;ipad_mini</a><p>Here are two distinct uses of the word “interesting”:<p>- When talking about Gmail for Android: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;daringfireball.net&#x2F;linked&#x2F;2013&#x2F;09&#x2F;30&#x2F;gmail-ads" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;daringfireball.net&#x2F;linked&#x2F;2013&#x2F;09&#x2F;30&#x2F;gmail-ads</a><p>- When talking about motion sickness and iOS 7: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;daringfireball.net&#x2F;linked&#x2F;2013&#x2F;09&#x2F;26&#x2F;ios-7-motion-sickness" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;daringfireball.net&#x2F;linked&#x2F;2013&#x2F;09&#x2F;26&#x2F;ios-7-motion-si...</a><p>And this…: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;daringfireball.net&#x2F;2012&#x2F;02&#x2F;mountain_lion" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;daringfireball.net&#x2F;2012&#x2F;02&#x2F;mountain_lion</a><p>&gt; <i>Handshakes, a few pleasantries, good hot coffee, and then, well, then I got an Apple press event for one.</i><p>Such a big mix of press release and extreme praise about getting a “press event for one”. Talk about second-hand embarrassment.