i personally think nothing on this phone is arbitrary and each thing is done for very specific reasonings and/or after analyzing many many use cases..
but i'm getting to the point in these discussions where i'm burnt out on overly engaged arguments for what i
think it will be like.. because the more i've analyzed it, the more i realize a lot of this stuff will be realized without the need for explanations once people start using it.
Fully agree with you on that one. I see it as a bit of fun, mainly not because of some of the idiocy that we have had to contend with and patiently explain even though it's pointless, but because that same idiocy has been reflected in numerous tech articles.
It's incredibly funny to me because I can project forward to when the phone is released and I can already appreciate how much Samsung will be panicking, they cannot simply copy this. Instead of realising that Touch ID ain't going to cut it 5 years into the future like Apple did, Samsung and the rest just looked at tiny bezels and the Touch ID was a mere bagatelle to them "oh don't worry, we can stick it on the back" but it's not the screen that is the big deal it's the new biometric. Anyone can make a big phone and any one can make a tiny bezel phone but no one can suddenly whip up a FaceID equivalent in a year, or two or three. And it's Face ID not bezeless screens that are the big deal with the X.
I'm going to enjoy watching all the other phones who rode on the coat tails of Apple, get their comeuppance.
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A few thoughts:
1. The notch is iconic. Apple is making a feature of it. I think people will come to love it.
2. I never watch movies on my iPhone. Well, the occasional YouTube clip.
3. I very rarely use my iPhone in landscape.
4. It’s not the notch that’s going to stop me, it’s the enormous price. A year ago I thought my jet black iPhone 7+ was the most beautiful phone I’d ever seen. We all did. My current phone is as amazing now as it was before the keynote. It’s nuts to “trade up”.
1. Yes but it's not iconic in the way that people have suggested that Apple just did it to purposely look iconic, it's iconic in the way that a porsche is iconic due to a form follows function credo. Also it's going to be hilarious if others try to copy it because when they copied the original iPhone they said, 'you can't patent a rectangle with rounded corners, it's obviously the only way to do it'. When they do eventually get a FaceID equivalent going, if ever, they'll have to do the straight across bezel, they can't copy the iconic way Apple have implemented the ears and say, 'oh that's obvious of course you have to do it that way'.
2. I don't like the size of an iPad and if I watch movies on my 4" screen (was iPod but now SE) and hold it at a distance of 11" which I do, that is the same as watching a 40" screen from a distance of 9 feet. Handy for long bus trips or if I just want to be horizontal.
3. There'll be enough people buying this that there'll be plenty of one year old models to purchase soon enough.
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Why do you think having a front camera = notch?
And why are you fine with a notch?
The notch is unapologetically un-Apple. If they didn’t want to rush it out this year, they would have waited to get it right (i.e. no notch) as they pride themselves on doing.
Considering that if Apple didn't want the 'notch effect' that it was just a matter of not extending the screen up into the bezel and having the status bar take up screen space, if that's what they wanted to do they would have done it, extending the screen into the bezel is more work takes more time because it's not just the engineering but they have to write the software and all the API's that work with the ears.
And to say it's "un-Apple" is frankly bizarre because it's very very Apple to do something that no one thought of and that the whole world thinks is obviously wrong, only to later realise that Apple's way is the only one that makes sense.
The best example of this is the positioning of keyboards on laptops, everyone had the keyboard position closer to the user because that is what seemed to make sense, Apple pushed the keyboard away from the user towards the screen, and suddenly all laptops were made that way because 'it's obvious'. Genuine genius always looks 'obvious' once you see it, but it's only obvious after the fact.
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Even ignoring the notch and rounded corners, the X's display is slightly smaller than Plus's.
You also have to ignore the rounded corners on the Samsung and what's worse because of the bezel Samsung didn't have to round off the screen display, the Xiaomi Mi Mix 2 looks so much better.
So what if the X's display is slightly smaller than the plus, so what that is completely irrelevant it's a different phone.
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It’s a notch because it eats into the advertised 5.8” screen regardless if the overall, useable screen is bigger than previous screen.
So if it's a notch because Apple just did the industry standard measurement and measured from corner to corner, then I presume if Apple said it was 5.62" you'd be satisfied that it's not a notch? That's very strange because then according to you simply saying the screen is 5.62" and not 5.8" and the phone and everything including the screen remains the same, but suddenly there is no notch! According to you. That proves there's no notch at all because if a notch can vanish simply by changing a number on a web page then it couldn't have been a real notch in the first place.
Sort of like gravity, Einstein said that if by changing your reference frame you can make gravity disappear then gravity cannot be a real force. I often ask people why do the astronauts and all their equipment float around in the space station, and they invariably say 'because there's no gravity' so what keeps it in orbit then, the gravitational field on the space station is only about 10% less than the Earth, it doesn't even dawn on them that the Moon which is 240,000 miles further away is also being held by gravity. So why aren't the astronauts falling towards the Earth if there's still gravity? They are falling and so is everything on the space station, including the space station itself.
