2019 iPhones Could Have Smaller Notch as Apple 'Looking Into' Combining Face ID and Front Camera

[JM]

The problem with your example is that Apple was, in fact, heavily criticized over the antenna lines on the iPhone 4. Steve Jobs even references this in his keynote because an iPhone 4 was leaked early. He referred to people who said “this doesn’t seem like Apple.” Go back and watch it. And by marking the antennas so obviously helped fuel the ridiculous antenna attenuation debacle during the iPhone 4’s early days. What was missing from the iPhone X unveiling was a Jobs-style pitch as to why the notch is, in fact, brilliant design. Absolutely every available space on the front of the phone contains display rather than compromising with bezels or having ridiculous embedded speakers and sensors.

I appreciate a good debate, but aesthetics are purely a personal opinion, not fact. Time is the great decider on aesthetics, as is the case with the iPhone 4. And aesthetics are only one tiny part of design.
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But Apple DID want a notch. When did they say otherwise? The shipped product is evidence that this was what they wanted to do.
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Amen. In what world does technology stand still and not change? Even iPhones and computers from years ago receive software updates. Does that mean the device and software is only out of beta once Apple stops supporting it?

The difference between the 4 design and the notch, is this rumor of the notch shrinking: the antennae lines never went away until the material choice of the jet black. Antennae lines got BIGGER with the 6.

The notch (compared to antennae lines) is rumored to get smaller in one year, as opposed to 3 years (with antennae lines) from 4 to 7 jet black.

Either Apple shouldn't have had the notch in the X, or keep the notch in all its unashamed glory in the next phone and embrace it.

This quick shrinking (if true) seems like will be an admission of distaste for their design in the X.

(I feel like this conversation is coming to a close I'm running out of arguments)

 

[Black Tiger]

The difference between the 4 design and the notch, is this rumor of the notch shrinking: the antennae lines never went away until the material choice of the jet black. Antennae lines got BIGGER with the 6.

The notch (compared to antennae lines) is rumored to get smaller in one year, as opposed to 3 years (with antennae lines) from 4 to 7 jet black.

Either Apple shouldn't have had the notch in the X, or keep the notch in all its unashamed glory in the next phone and embrace it.

This quick shrinking (if true) seems like will be an admission of distaste for their design in the X.

(I feel like this conversation is coming to a close I'm running out of arguments)

Rumoured to be smaller. Will it be? No. It’s too distinctive, and gets people talking. Free marketing!

 

[JM]

Rumoured to be smaller. Will it be? No. It’s too distinctive, and gets people talking. Free marketing!

We'll see cheers.

 

[jdsingle]

The notch is such a non issue. The phone looks better than the rest of the competition imo.

Those that are still complaining about the notch either don’t own the phone or never even used one.

I'm still surprised how much of an uproar this has caused. I'll gladly take the notch in comparison to my 6s. I can wait three years though before upgrading. I know I can do it!

 

[handsome pete]

This quick shrinking (if true) seems like will be an admission of distaste for their design in the X.

I think we just disagree on this point. Unless we're all mistaken, the only options Apple had with the X was the notch or a solid black bar across the top. They presumably chose the former out of preference. Now it looks like hardware will have advanced in time to include the same sensors, but in a smaller footprint. So the notch should logically be smaller.

I just don't see that as evidence they don't like their design. In a perfect world there are a lot of aesthetic choices they would prefer to make if there weren't limitations in hardware/technology.

But yeah, I do agree that this argument is petering out.