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Dynamic Pill is just lipstick on a pig. Apple trying their best to distract from the fact there's a hole in your screen.

Downvote all you want but the sooner it's under screen and we're back to full screen phones the better.
 
No way!! This is the Apples strategy.
  • First Aoole sell the iP14 Pro
  • Next a USB-C port is added and the new iP is called iP15 Pro
  • The normal iP gets the pill shaped cutout, but not usb-C and is called iP15
Outside the Apple world smartphones use USB-C since years and circular cutouts are standard. You don‘t have to pay a few hundred bugs for standard technology outside Apples walled garden.

Only inside, Apple calls standard technology a „pro“ technology and charges you.
 
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Hm this make the standard / plus models even less attractive. Unfortunately I really need a new phone o_O
 
60Hz at the price point of the iPhone 14/15 is pretty embarassing, when even phones below $300 have a 120Hz display now...
They have 120hz display with the speed of 2015 high end phones. That’s a weird hill to die on but go off I guess.
 
Wishful thinking Young, though I don't see the island going far. I got the feeling it's gonna go the way of the touch bar in a few years, where people play around with it for a couple months then never touch it again.
 
Obviously an unpopular opinion, but:

How are people seriously this excited about a black blank area at the top that can grow to show stuff?

It seems like every other post on MR is about this thing. It can’t be that big a deal.
Or and hear me out:

Let people ppl make a big deal out of whatever interests them in the phone.
 
And sounds like no 120hz again due to supply issues. 60hz in 2023 good god…people should use buy a pro at this point
 
This is interesting. Thinking of going with the non pro next time I upgrade. The pro phones, particularly the 6.1 inch pro ,have gotten too heavy given the screen size.
 
Dynamic Pill is just lipstick on a pig. Apple trying their best to distract from the fact there's a hole in your screen.

Downvote all you want but the sooner it's under screen and we're back to full screen phones the better.
Finally a MacRumors member that isn't a brand cheerleader and gets the bigger picture.
 
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Obviously an unpopular opinion, but:

How are people seriously this excited about a black blank area at the top that can grow to show stuff?

It seems like every other post on MR is about this thing. It can’t be that big a deal.
It's not a big deal, this is way over-hyped. In 2017 we thought that by 2022 we'd see no notch, island, or anything else, all screen. Obviously Apple tried and failed to make this a reality (at least for this generation), but Apple has one of the best marketing teams out there that knows how to spin instead of admitting defeat, so they have their software team mask that this is an unintended compromise and market this thing like crazy.
 
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The top dock AKA dynamic island is as much a feature, as being seated behind a column at a theater, being told the CCTV screen is a feature.
 
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