What’s even more interesting is that many Android phones have had a hole punch design for many years, and Apple was the first one to implement it. It may be that this could only be achieved through the tight hardware and software integration that Apple has. Regardless, this is a brilliant idea.
When the rumors were doing around about the separate modules, and the possible connection into one shape, I thought it would be neat if they created an animation around this — it never occurred to me to take it way beyond that like they did.