I don’t want to spend extra money on features that have been cancelled.
iPhone X Plug In Home Button Dongle, would you buy one?!
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I’m kinda puzzled and also surprised…
Puzzled as a number of people have jumped to the iPhone X for more screen real-estate sans home button and to fully embrace Apple’s new ‘flagship’ identification and security method…adding back on the home button via a dongle seems like a step backwards after paying a premium 
Surprised that Apple didn’t come up with this first and they love dongles and charging a premium for access back to an old tech standard 
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Like @nigelhealy said there are plenty of phones on the market for a user to choose from, they know their needs so they should buy based off that. Sadly, we live in a world where status is key and people will buy the newest best thing regardless what that entails, just so others can view them ad hip or as having a higher social status than others.
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I don’t know any iPhone X owners that actually miss the Home button. Swiping up from the bottom is easy enough and Face ID works very well, so no dongle needed for me.
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apple will kill its compatibility in 3.2.1
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LG and Pixel both place the home button on the back, saves real estate and still affords the traditional feature. Im honestly a little surprised more dont do this, a phone without buttons removes almost all trouble shooting ability and is something I just couldnt purchase myself.
Excellent point but then this is Apple and they have a tendency to force new tech (mostly their own type) by removing access to the older tech (can be any type 
)…
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The dongle is not needed. The feeling of swiping is more natural than the button. The button is just there to show what is possible and to make money.
So I really like 6" smart phone screens but I also like physical home buttons, because I find the Samsung Galaxy virtual buttons are not always responsive. But you can’t always have your cake and it eat!
Bring back the Nokia 3310 
On a serious note, I wouldn’t buy it as it defeats the purpose of having the flagship iPhone. Plus it looks like it would easily break/snap off, leaving the lightning connection stuck in iPhone.
That’s pretty much the problem with any dongle, it could break off and mess up your phone/laptop!
Yea my coworker had to get a new moto z force because he was using the usb c dingle to headphone adapter and his snapped off
good one. I like this one
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… agreed but also any cable.
I bust more laptops with stepping and walking past the power lead …
corded headphones to phones, yanks the phone …
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probably not gonna buy one of these, the bar at bottom works well!
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My wife won’t get the X because it doesn’t have a home button and she won’t buy the dongle because its a waste of money and adds extra junk to carry with her.
As to me, If I wanted a home button then I would buy the 8. Its time to embrace the no home button. I believe future iPhones won’t have the button.
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In many Android phones you have on-screen buttons which can rotate with the screen and the trend is all-screen smaller bezels so when watching videos games etc nothing in the front is wasted with buttons.
Given every moving part is a source of eventual failure, arguably removing a button is a good thing. My current phone is OnePlus 3T which has a combined home+fingerprint and capacitance left and right back / apps so not mechnanical at least but still mechanical power, volume buttons and a (unique to OnePlus) a mute slider which is handy but I can see already its wearing.
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