[jmull]

> And gloves! Sure, gloves with capacitive fingertips exist, and Apple will probably engineer ways for these pretend buttons to play nicely with gloves.

Why assume the buttons will be capacitive? Pressure sensitive makes more sense to me.

[hummus_bae]

If they’re pressure-sensitive they won’t work while the lid is closed… so they’d have to be capacitive.

[jmull]

I don't know what that means. What lid? And why would a lid cover the sides of a phone?

Even a case fully covering the sides could have a bump in the right place, to serve as a target for the user and transmit force to the phone's force sensor.