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Apple Plans to Reduce iPad Bezel Sizes, Just Like on iPhone 15 Pro Models
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How about they fix iPadOS to make it an OS I'd actually want to use first?
I'm curious: How do you decide which iPad stories to comment this on? Random, or all of them?
It will detect when you're holding it and produce virtual bezels. Then when your fingers aren't on the screen, the screen will expand and the bezels will disappear.
That doesn’t make him wrong. Apple clearly doesn’t care about fixing an almost endless list of bugs. Meanwhile, they’re busy hustling new “features” that are of dubious use. When the iPad was introduced, Apple’s ads proclaimed “You already know how to use it.” That was true but is no longer true beyond a few basic functions.
It won’t be all at one it will be 2 mm at a time so they have something to call a feature in new models
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I really liked using the OG iPad, I thought it was very comfortable to use.
Ugh. Please no. The iPad bezel serves a purpose unlike the iPhone bezel. Even with rejection of edge touches it is still not ideal to have to hold onto parts of the screen in order to handle a device.
The current design is fine. This feels like change for the sake of change without actually improving anything.
I still have an iPad mini 5 and my LEAST favorite part about this otherwise amazing device is the tiny side bezels. It is really difficult to hold comfortably in one hand in portrait mode (which is how I want to hold it while reading books).
The current design is fine. This feels like change for the sake of change without actually improving anything.
I still have an iPad mini 5 and my LEAST favorite part about this otherwise amazing device is the tiny side bezels. It is really difficult to hold comfortably in one hand in portrait mode (which is how I want to hold it while reading books).
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I also miss the wedge-design of the iPad. It felt so premium, sturdy, and exclusive.
Unlike a phone the bezel on a tablet is an ergonomic feature and needs to be preserved.
The bezels are already too small on my current generation iPad Pro. Holding it without touching the screen is awkward and uncomfortable. It's a significant downgrade in ergonomics from the first generation iPad Pro I had before this one.
Making them even smaller would be peak form-over-function nonsense.
Making them even smaller would be peak form-over-function nonsense.
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I prefer the opposite - the iPhone X design with curved edges was too slippery and I much more prefer the edges on my iPhone 12. Given design innovation is quite stale now, we’ll probably go back and forth between curved and sharper edge designs every other generation 🤷🏻♂️
Same thing I've been saying for years about iPhones. I loved having the bezel above and below the display on the iPhone 7. It was the perfect place to hold your phone stably using your thumb while taking video.
It's getting so bad now that there's no way to simply hold an iOS device without accidentally touching the screen.
If Apple made hands, they would've increased a half an inch in size every year.
Somehow iPhones continue to do so even though hands aren't changing size every year.
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Speak for yourself. There was an enormous wall of rationale for Apple NOT making phones bigger than the "perfect" in a 4" screen due to one-handed use. Obviously, the only way that Apple phablets have exploded is that all the one-handed use fans must have grown their hands. It was far too important back then to otherwise make any phablet- often called an "abomination" by the same crowd- a success.
What I have a hard time seeing myself is all of the "pants with bigger pockets" and man purses offered as additional major reasons Apple should not go phablet size. Apparently, both the pants and purses are very cleverly blended into modern attire... or perhaps cloaking devices are in play?
What I have a hard time seeing myself is all of the "pants with bigger pockets" and man purses offered as additional major reasons Apple should not go phablet size. Apparently, both the pants and purses are very cleverly blended into modern attire... or perhaps cloaking devices are in play?
My 11" M2 iPad is in the frame of my Brydge keyboard. Hopefully they come back to life financially and would create a keyboard enclosure that cures the thin bezel stupidity issue on the next generation of iPads.
The thin iPhone bezel is just a ploy to sell more cases so the user fingers have space from the screen.
The thin iPhone bezel is just a ploy to sell more cases so the user fingers have space from the screen.
Smaller bezels on iPad could be fine, someone mentioned that the old home-button models had thinner bezels on the sides than the current pros, and those worked fine.
But I would have an issue with a notch/island on the iPad. Just doesn’t really seem necessary, and it makes landscape use a little funky
But I would have an issue with a notch/island on the iPad. Just doesn’t really seem necessary, and it makes landscape use a little funky
With the smaller phones available not having all the flagship features, ppl compromised on size preference in order to get those features.Speak for yourself. There was an enormous wall of rationale for Apple NOT making phones bigger than the "perfect" in a 4" screen due to one-handed use. Obviously, the only way that Apple phablets have exploded is that all the one-handed use fans must have grown their hands. It was far too important back then to otherwise make any phablet- often called an "abomination" by the same crowd- a success.
What I have a hard time seeing myself is all of the "pants with bigger pockets" and man purses offered as additional major reasons Apple should not go phablet size. Apparently, both the pants and purses are very cleverly blended into modern attire... or perhaps cloaking devices are in play?
Then when the smaller phones sold less, Apple said “see, I guess ppl don’t want smaller phones!” And the cycle continues
This really isn't necessary and arguably a step too far. When it's not magnetically clipped to its case/stand I hold my iPad at the edges using my fingers which inevitable wrap over to the first few mm of display. Make those bezels too small and I'm going to be registering touches that I don't want.
Jony Ive will come out with a new LoveFrom designed accessory.
Love Handles. Only $8000.