Dan Provost from The Russians Used a Pencil on the rumor of an iPhone 5 home button with touch sensitive area:

I believe that if this new gesture region is in fact coming to the iPhone, it will be used for only one thing: switching between open apps. We can all agree that the current multitasking solution (double clicking the home button and then tapping the respective app) could stand to be improved.

Makes sense. All these rumors of complicated multi-finger gestures do not. When I am holding my phone in one hand, it’s not really convenient to execute a multiple finger gesture. And like Provost, I had the current double-tapping nonsense. Classify this under the standard Apple rumor logic, “I’ll believe it when I see it”, but color me intrigued.

(via Ben Brooks)