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Anyone else actually LOVE the notch?

Slap bracelets were popular in my time before we eventually forgot about them. Fads come and go. This notch will too.

Circa 1989-1991 for me. 3rd/4th grade.
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KingslayerG5 said:
Slap bracelets were popular in my time before we eventually forgot about them. Fads come and go. This notch will too.

Circa 1989-1991 for me. 3rd/4th grade.
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I see your point, but not really relevant in comparison to the notch. Slap bracelets were more of a niche category that appeal to a certain demographic in a younger generation. The notch is more of a technological feature that supports and houses The current hardware for Face ID/ speaker. I wouldn't classify the notch as a "Fad". That's not what it is at all and Apple certainly didn't market the Notch to be intended as such.
 
I wouldn’t say I love the notch. But I don’t mind it. I keep wondering if it wasn’t there... how would you know what are orientation the phone is in? It could be upside down. You couldn’t just reach for volume / side button... and how would you know where the camera is without flipping it over to check!?
 
Without the "notch" (stupid descriptor) and in a case, it looks like any Samsung out there. I noticed a scruffy looking construction worker using one yesterday in a fast food place- only BECAUSE of the notch. That and I think he had the screen at max brightness with white content. The feature jumped out from across the room.
 
The notch is not going to be there forever. The rear volume buttons from LG only lasted three years. Nothing is permanent in tech just like Matt Lauer's employment situation is.

I remember back in 2008, it was all about Barack Obama. By 2010, it was like eww.. Barack Obama. Didn't change the country. Everyone is fickle. Nothing is truly forever. Changes always happen.

I was reading about TAM (Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh) and this notch will be forgotten like TAM. The prisoner of the moment folks still in their honeymoon phase with the TAi (or TAX) are just trying to justify their purchases.

Notch will be gone by the next decade and then people who lack foresight like they did when voting for Obama in 2008 because he was half-black will say in a few years how lame that notch was.
 
umusachi said:
I wouldn’t say I love the notch. But I don’t mind it. I keep wondering if it wasn’t there... how would you know what are orientation the phone is in? It could be upside down. You couldn’t just reach for volume / side button... and how would you know where the camera is without flipping it over to check!?
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Perhaps you didn't notice, but there's a pretty obvious slot for the earpiece/speaker/mic.
 
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It’s not a question of love or hate it’s more about the trade off for getting some nice features Bells and whistles
It’s like everything else....you’ll get used to it
 
bushman4 said:
It’s not a question of love or hate it’s more about the trade off for getting some nice features Bells and whistles
It’s like everything else....you’ll get used to it
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I think that's it. It's not ideal, but it's not a problem. It's a compromise. As such, it's OK.
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Applejuiced said:
What's a full-width bar?
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Something like this, on the Note 8:

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The notch is distinctive, unique.....and that sets it apart from other smartphones right 0ff the bat. Clever marketing on Apple's part......
 
Clix Pix said:
The notch is distinctive, unique.....and that sets it apart from other smartphones right 0ff the bat. Clever marketing on Apple's part......
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How is that clever marketing? What if it sticks out for looking like crap? I've read that many users said it grew on them after using it for a while. The average person who sees it out in public isn't using it.

distinctive and unique isn't always a good thing. Keeping up with car analogies, the AMC Pacer had a distinctive look.
 
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It is clever marketing because often there is instant recognition of a device in someone's hand as being Apple's iPhone X as opposed to a Samsung whatchumacallit or some other phone......most of the current line of smartphones seem to really look alike.
 
Clix Pix said:
It is clever marketing because often there is instant recognition of a device in someone's hand as being Apple's iPhone X as opposed to a Samsung whatchumacallit or some other phone......most of the current line of smartphones seem to really look alike.
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who really cares? So do most car tires, computer monitors, mouses, keyboards, toilets, etc... they just work
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Applejuiced said:
I would take a full width bezel like that any day over the notch.
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exactly why I'm going with 8+ over iPhone Notch
 
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Act3 said:
who really cares? So do most car tires, computer monitors, mouses, keyboards, etc... they just work
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exactly why I'm going with 8+ over iPhone Notch
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Can't blame you.
I don't like to compromise and get something I don't like either. And then overpay for it on top of it.
No thanks🙂
 
For me, it was try out the Apple iPhone X or remain with my iPhone 7 Plus, since to me the the 8 and the 8 Plus were boring and just a minor step upward from my iPhone 7 Plus. I decided that if for whatever reason the iPhone X did not work out for me, I'd just revert back tp my iPhone 7 Plus and wait see what happens in 2018..... I did not see any advantage in updating to an iPhone 8 or iPhone 8 Plus. Well, as it happens I am very happy with my iPhone X and so that takes care of that all the way around.... Other people may have other priorities, of course.
 
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Clix Pix said:
For me, it was try out the Apple iPhone X or remain with my iPhone 7 Plus, since to me the the 8 and the 8 Plus were boring and just a minor step upward from my iPhone 7 Plus. I decided that if for whatever reason the iPhone X did not work out for me, I'd just revert back tp my iPhone 7 Plus and wait see what happens in 2018..... I did not see any advantage in updating to an iPhone 8 or iPhone 8 Plus. Well, as it happens I am very happy with my iPhone X and so that takes care of that all the way around.... Other people may have other priorities, of course.
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I'm moving from a 6S non plus, all I want is bigger screen and better camera. I'm even thinking about just settling with 7+ but for $130 more I should go with 8 + as it has double storage, faster cpu, tru tone, camera improvements, etc....
 
Interesting how this thread ends up looking like any other by the end. “The iPhone X is awesome” “The iPhone X sucks”. Like with any new device there’s gonna be people who love it and people who hate it. I’ve said it before but the only thing that makes my iPhone X usage slightly miserable is the lack of apps supporting the screen. Games in particular.

Without the screen support there it’s kinda like going back to my old iPhone 6. I find myself checking for updates constantly but it also seems like I’ve been seeing less app updates in general than when the 6s Plus was my daily driver. Then when apps DO have an update it’s like they’re pretending the X doesn’t even exist.

Screen support should be more important than new features, holiday specials etc.
 
5 years from now, people are going to feel mighty silly about all this time wasted obsessing over a fleeting industrial design compromise.

The notch will be replaced by either a normal full width bar, or disappear completely when someone develops a way to seamlessly integrate a front facing camera into the display itself with some kind of alien technology that hasn't been figured out yet.

Apple desperately wants to be different when it comes to design, at all costs, and occasionally even at the cost of logic and rationality.

By rights they should have just gone with a straight full width top chin. Thin and discrete. But they couldn't bear to be an also ran. They just had to come up with something different. Like the Italian international transfer student who came to my high school with exactly one half of his head completely shaved. To be different. It didn't make him cooler or better. Just different.

The notch is a flash in the Apple design pan, like the iPod Sock or the 2002 iMac. If you claim to love it, you're basically loving the design equivalent of a collective head scratch and shrug from Jony and the design department in Cupertino.
 
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Applejuiced said:
I would take a full width bezel like that any day over the notch.
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I think I come out as it doesn't matter either way most of the time? The UI and UX poor choices bother me a lot more.
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Clix Pix said:
For me, it was try out the Apple iPhone X or remain with my iPhone 7 Plus, since to me the the 8 and the 8 Plus were boring and just a minor step upward from my iPhone 7 Plus. I decided that if for whatever reason the iPhone X did not work out for me, I'd just revert back tp my iPhone 7 Plus and wait see what happens in 2018..... I did not see any advantage in updating to an iPhone 8 or iPhone 8 Plus. Well, as it happens I am very happy with my iPhone X and so that takes care of that all the way around.... Other people may have other priorities, of course.
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That was (is) how I see it. Trying to figure out how I feel about the different user experience with the X.
 
I am beginning to wonder whether those who are asking whether the notch is really nothing more than a styling choice, intended to make the iPhone X visually distinctive, something that's easily recognized as an Apple product, aren't exactly right here. I'm seeing very, very few cases where the ears enhance use of the phone or apps. The only problem with that is that, unlike the distinctive home button, you can't see the notch when the screen isn't illuminated with something that's bright and full screen. For example, I was watching a video last night on the train - it would have been impossible to see the notch and therefore to quickly identify the phone.
 
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