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Embracing the Notch: How Are You Adapting to the Most Controversial iPhone X Design Decision?
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Not bothered by the notch, buggy iOS 11 is whole another story, camera bump is awful tho.
Can we PLEASE be totally honest here.
There are those who hate the notch and can't imagine having a screen with this design.
And
There are those who put up with / ignore the notch due to the benefits that come from this design.
eg. You can see it as a bit of extra space either side, or it's worth it for face ID, or it's worth is for no home button.
But PLEASE let's be 100% honest here, people only are accepting the notch because of the compromise in order for other benefits in their eyes.
No one WANTS the notch to be there for visual reasons, and if you say you do, sorry, I don't believe you.
If you genuinely like/want the notch, then you would accept that dead area on the screen if there was nothing there.
If you took an iPhone 8+ and killed off the same area of the screen, so it had a notch which did nothing, then you would have to admit, you would still like it there on THAT screen.
So please be honest. It's just something that some/many are prepared to "Put Up With" and choose to ignore/get use to, due to other benefits such a design brings.
Like for example the battery life in iPhone. You would rather is lasted a month, than a day (or two) who wouldn't!
But you accept the compromise that to get the phone thin and light, you accept the limitation of a short battery life.
Apple had currently no other practical way of doing this.
So rather like a very fat person, trying to pretend they are thin, and squeezing into a thin dress, you go the other way, embrace the "Issue?" and try and market it, as a positive rather than the negative we all really know it is, deep down.
Put is this way....... Imagine 2 iPhoneX's for sale.
One with the notch
One with all the sensors and the camera that (somehow) worked from behind/thru the screen.
Or course people would all wish to have the latter version and have a full screen with no cut-out.
But we accept the limitation for the time being.
I suspect as years go on. Not right away, perhaps in another 3 - 5 years, Apple with narrow the notch down, as tech will allow them to get all the current items held within that area down to a smaller size, or various items combined as opposed to separate sensors/cameras and we'll see the notch shrink.
That won't happen for a while, but I'd say the notch will, in years to come, when they are ready, be shrunk down to impose less into the screen.
There are those who hate the notch and can't imagine having a screen with this design.
And
There are those who put up with / ignore the notch due to the benefits that come from this design.
eg. You can see it as a bit of extra space either side, or it's worth it for face ID, or it's worth is for no home button.
But PLEASE let's be 100% honest here, people only are accepting the notch because of the compromise in order for other benefits in their eyes.
No one WANTS the notch to be there for visual reasons, and if you say you do, sorry, I don't believe you.
If you genuinely like/want the notch, then you would accept that dead area on the screen if there was nothing there.
If you took an iPhone 8+ and killed off the same area of the screen, so it had a notch which did nothing, then you would have to admit, you would still like it there on THAT screen.
So please be honest. It's just something that some/many are prepared to "Put Up With" and choose to ignore/get use to, due to other benefits such a design brings.
Like for example the battery life in iPhone. You would rather is lasted a month, than a day (or two) who wouldn't!
But you accept the compromise that to get the phone thin and light, you accept the limitation of a short battery life.
Apple had currently no other practical way of doing this.
So rather like a very fat person, trying to pretend they are thin, and squeezing into a thin dress, you go the other way, embrace the "Issue?" and try and market it, as a positive rather than the negative we all really know it is, deep down.
Put is this way....... Imagine 2 iPhoneX's for sale.
One with the notch
One with all the sensors and the camera that (somehow) worked from behind/thru the screen.
Or course people would all wish to have the latter version and have a full screen with no cut-out.
But we accept the limitation for the time being.
I suspect as years go on. Not right away, perhaps in another 3 - 5 years, Apple with narrow the notch down, as tech will allow them to get all the current items held within that area down to a smaller size, or various items combined as opposed to separate sensors/cameras and we'll see the notch shrink.
That won't happen for a while, but I'd say the notch will, in years to come, when they are ready, be shrunk down to impose less into the screen.
Jobs said, the user is not supposed to notice the underlying engineering. So obviously, someone noticed.
I had no intention of purchasing the X because of the notch. The 8+ was purchased instead.
I stumbled upon an X and did an in store pick up.
After picking up and playing with the demo in the store I was sold.
The notch, it's there. I groan a little bit when in landscape but the groaning is becoming less frequent.
Apple has the knack of molding us into using their designs and adapting to them.
An example, the elimination of the headphone jack - sure tons of griping however, I can't imagine using a wired set of headphones ever again.
I am kicking myself for purchasing the 8+. I absolutely love the X and the accept the notch
I stumbled upon an X and did an in store pick up.
After picking up and playing with the demo in the store I was sold.
The notch, it's there. I groan a little bit when in landscape but the groaning is becoming less frequent.
Apple has the knack of molding us into using their designs and adapting to them.
An example, the elimination of the headphone jack - sure tons of griping however, I can't imagine using a wired set of headphones ever again.
I am kicking myself for purchasing the 8+. I absolutely love the X and the accept the notch
You get used to laser eye correction. Doesn't mean it's a bad thing.
People are always desperate to criticise Apple, though. It's fine when Apple has done something wrong, but it's like the default setting for most people.
Face ID is the perfect example.
Some people feel Face ID is flawed. Not because of the false positives we've seen in the last week or so, but because you have to look at your phone to unlock it. I've read comments from people who are apparently in situations all the time where they must have quick access to their iPhones, but where it's impossible to look at the phone.
If you're worried about Face ID from a security perspective, then fair enough. Wait and see. But people are dismissing the use case of "look at your phone and it unlocks" as cumbersome / awkward / inconvenient... because it's Apple.
I played with it in an Apple Store. In portrait mode it’s mostly ok, but really bothers me in landscape, it’s very visible, and unacceptable while viewing videos in full screen. I’ll be upgrading my iphone 6 to a 7 or 8, and watch what Apple will do with this strange design next year.
No, we don't see how FaceID is problematic. We see a bunch of people trying to prove it is, and absolutely nothing concrete yet.
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Yes, but you can use capacitive touch gloves without having to take them off to scan your finger.
Reminds me of the headphone jack thing. So many bizarre situations (with solutions I might add, solutions that were subsequently ignored..) where the change was personally detrimental to the poster.
"But how am I going to charge the phone when I'm listening to classical music on the 8th night of the month when the North Star is 29.9857237 degrees to the horizon and I have gloves AND a helmet on and I flip a coin and it lands on it's side whilst dancing the fandango during a lunar eclipse??"
Actually isn't that old battery icon a clear example of skeuomorphism that modern Apple hate so much? I know for a fact my phone doesn't contain double-A Duracell's...
When they overhauled the look of iOS, the only skeuomorphism they threw out was patterns, designs, backgrounds and buttons. While the battery icon is technically skeuomorphic, it's not the same kind of skeu... (I'm not attempting to spell it again lol)
How many indications s necessary for the same thing. My car has a miles til empty and the gas gauge.
Which one do I believe more.
iPhone has a battery indicator. If a charger is available I charge it.
If there isn’t a charger available the % or battery meter isn’t going to matter.
I truly don’t see why the % is a big thing. Sure preference, I understand.
If it’s red it’s gonna be dead.
Which one do I believe more.
iPhone has a battery indicator. If a charger is available I charge it.
If there isn’t a charger available the % or battery meter isn’t going to matter.
I truly don’t see why the % is a big thing. Sure preference, I understand.
If it’s red it’s gonna be dead.
Same. I didn’t just adapt, I actually love it. I hope they keep it. I like the blank space more than a huge, boring status bar. Just enough space to display what needs displayed. I dig it.
I never had to get used to it, I just never noticed it to begin with. I love this phone.
I wish it had been Samsung who had released the phone with a notch.
I would have been so refreshing to see them get this much praise from the MR faithful.
I would have been so refreshing to see them get this much praise from the MR faithful.