I didn't mind the notch at all on the home screen and in some apps I used, I soon got 'used to it'. I still think it's a design failure when the rest of the experience which requires full screen content is compromised due to the notch cutting into said content. It cuts into it when playing games (especially worse in landscape games like racing), it's terribly obstructive when you actually want to take full advantage of the screen and view your pictures in full like Snapchat pics for example, and although not many people use this (that's not the point, it's just the fact that it's still there), if you open GarageBand and go into keyboard it cuts into the damn keys at the edge of the keyboard.
I don't get this over defense of the notch at all and dislike Apple apologists who just gloss over it and basically 'accept' it.
Let me ask you this; would you seriously buy a TV with a notch at the top of it? Would you be perfectly comfortable with it cutting into your movies or whatever you watch? I highly doubt it. No screen in the history of screens has done it and there's a reason for that and that reason is because it is absolutely obstructive, uniform, doesn't make any logical sense and is awful design. The UI and software now has to be written entirely around it on the X like with control centre which used to be easy to access but is now in a worse and harder to get to position and requires two hands.
It's ok though we'll just force ourselves to get used to it because Apple.
As I said above, if it was something that was exclusively, or even predominantly used for watching film and tv, of course its going to bother people. But for the vast majority of apps, that is just dead space anyway, and nothing is being obscured or compromised in any way.
That I, and presumably millions of other people, do not have a problem with it because of that fact, it does not make me, or anyone else, some sort of apologist? Why can it never be that people legitimately don't have an issue with something because it genuinely doesn't impact their experience? Why does it always have to be because people are somehow putting up with something they shouldn't want to, and be labelled "an apologist"? Or that just because you don't like it, it somehow means that I, and others. have somehow forced ourselves, almost against our will, to get used to it?
If you don't like it, fine - don't buy it. But stop projecting your views on others, and concluding that they are the same and somehow putting up with something they don't really like, just because you don't really like it.
A TV is completely different, because it would *always* cut into content in a way that, for many, it does not on the phone.
The gesture for the control centre has nothing to do with the notch.
