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20th Anniversary iPhone to Feature Custom 'Micro-Curved' OLED Panel
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Zeus2018
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I'm sure this time they'll nail it without a hitch.
Because nothing says "we've totally learned from our mistakes" like betting the farm on bleeding-edge display tech right after the Vision Pro turned into a $3,500 paperweight that sold so poorly they slashed production and marketing to the bone. Or how the super-thin iPhone Air flopped hard enough that they're already delaying the sequel. Or Apple Intelligence promising the world, delivering... some emoji tweaks... and then quietly kicking the actually good Siri stuff down the road again.
Yeah, Tim Cook's team is definitely going to pull off a completely seamless, distortion-free, all-glass quad-curved masterpiece with no cutouts, perfect edge swipes, and zero reflections—on the first try. No supply chain disasters, no "we're still testing under-display Face ID" cop-outs, no "actually it'll ship in 2028" walk-backs.
I won't hold my breath waiting, but who knows Siri may be updated by then.......
Because nothing says "we've totally learned from our mistakes" like betting the farm on bleeding-edge display tech right after the Vision Pro turned into a $3,500 paperweight that sold so poorly they slashed production and marketing to the bone. Or how the super-thin iPhone Air flopped hard enough that they're already delaying the sequel. Or Apple Intelligence promising the world, delivering... some emoji tweaks... and then quietly kicking the actually good Siri stuff down the road again.
Yeah, Tim Cook's team is definitely going to pull off a completely seamless, distortion-free, all-glass quad-curved masterpiece with no cutouts, perfect edge swipes, and zero reflections—on the first try. No supply chain disasters, no "we're still testing under-display Face ID" cop-outs, no "actually it'll ship in 2028" walk-backs.
I won't hold my breath waiting, but who knows Siri may be updated by then.......
ProbablyDylan
macrumors 68040
Apple not stopping to wonder why every other phone maker stopped using curved screens.
DocMultimedia
macrumors 68030
They'd better hurry up and finalize the shape with Samsung. I doubt it's easy to adapt their equipment to make the new shape. 🧐
one more
macrumors 603
Farewell iPhone cases of all sorts then and a warm welcome to new AppleCare+ subscribers. 😉
Functionally, though, what’s the point of a screen on the side, when it’s covered by our hands anyway.
Functionally, though, what’s the point of a screen on the side, when it’s covered by our hands anyway.
mike2q
macrumors 6502
Quicksilver867
macrumors 6502
Tempted to buy this even though it'll need its own special tier of AppleCare+++++++++
groove-agent
macrumors 68020
Mr_Ed
macrumors 65816
I like to differentiate between the physical cut outs and the Dynamic Island notification/status implementation. I loathe the fact that there is a hole in the screen but don’t mind Dynamic Island. Even if they had kept some kind of bezel for the camera and never had a notch or cutout on the screen, they could have implemented DI. But since they did go with cutouts, I don’t expect to see any new/novel notification/status scheme aside from DI until the cutouts are gone.
I sure hope they have improved the screen protectors for phones with curved edges because they have notoriously been bad in the past. I’m speaking from personal-experience as well as reading other people’s experience with them.
Jeremy Mathers
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All I want is a bezeless iPhone. There’s literally no reason for the stupid black borders on the screen. It’s such an eye sore. And don’t say oh Samsung did it already with the edge phones, no they didn’t, they’re were still bezels after the curve. I hope iPhone XX doesn’t have any bezels whatsoever ever and the screen just curves directly into the frame
ArtOfWarfare
macrumors G3
I actually think the dynamic island is very cool, and I expect this curved display to follow it... you won't know what the actual physical shape of the display is, because it'll appear to dynamically change and be software defined whether an area is black because physically there's no pixels there or because the software has just turned those pixels off.
"For years, Apple Chief Design Officer Jony Ive has expressed a desire for the iPhone to appear like a single sheet of glass, according to people familiar with the matter," - WSJ
Glass is transparent, so presumably they will fake this by passing what the camera sees through to the UI background and sides, something like this.
This would explain why Apple is so dead set on the translucent Liquid Glass design, with details like the transparent app icons, and floating tab and toolbars which don’t stretch to the edges of the display even when an app is full screen. (See also the translucent Vision Pro UI for inspiration.)
