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Internet Reacts to iPhone 14 Pro's Dynamic Island: 'One of Apple's Best Designs'
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Like most here, I’m usually an Apple cheerleader but I think the fanfare for the “dynamic island” is confusing. They seemingly bent over backwards to devise a software solution to a hardware problem. I can’t help but wonder whether they might have reached greater innovation in solving the actual problem of relocating or better masking the Face ID camera. 🤷♂️
A lot of really upset people here due to, of all innocuous things, the dynamic island. Weird. Not shocked.
Deep breaths. Life goes on.
Deep breaths. Life goes on.
It wasn't lack of 3rd party support, it was that it literally duplicated what was already on the screen, making its utility questionable. Had you been able to "pin" an app to the touchbar, and the touchbar was in addition to the function keys, I think it would have been well received.
Instead it was poorly implemented, and the people who would develop for it immediately turned it off in favor of the function keys, so it never went anywhere.
I'm usually not a naysayer, quite frankly I don't know how this is any better then shoving the notch as far up into the bezel as possible, minimizing the "notification area" space. Its novel, I'll give Apple that. I don't hate it. I just don't understand why the notch being further into screen space is appealing.
Also smudging seems like a potential issue.
Also smudging seems like a potential issue.
Does it look like it will work horizontally?
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The best software implementation to compensate for a hardware limitation in a long time. If we have to have notches or cutouts this is clever solution. Is it better than the notch? Not sure but I am glad apple still has people and talent to pull off something like this.
I was quite surprised at how cool it looked. The graphics and animations were done really well, and its a useful feature to boot without requiring that much more screen space. In fact, by moving some notifications and features to the area around the cutout, they may have saved some screen real estate in some scenarios.
The redundant screen space above this 'island' in normal use would annoy the hell out of me.
At least with the notch there is not screen space to waste.
At least with the notch there is not screen space to waste.
If you think about it. Most new phones have this “notch” but is there anyone who has implemented it in a better way?
Others are innovating? Like who? What did they innovate that’s not pretty much a gimmick?
And frankly everyone is free to spend their money where they feel they’re getting innovation. If it’s Samsung, Google, Motorola heck even BlackBerry. It’s your money, use it where you feel you get your moneys worth. No one’s forcing you to spend it on Apple.
They had the ability to use the name "Magic Pill" and went with "Dynamic Island". What a shame.
Why is absolutely NOBODY talking about the fact that it will move many important actions (its almost like mini multitasking menu) to the absolute top of the screen, which is absolute nightmare from usability standpoint. Couple years ago main idea behind Samsungs OneUI was to keep everything that needs to be touched on a lower half of a screen, it ended up to be a big success, people really like OneUI. Now Apple, self-proclaimed usability king is selling something that will be a usability nightmare as its biggest feature. Good luck using that with one hand. Sorry but Apple instead improving things, is making it much worse. I understand that they still dont have tech to hide the notch, but this is textbook example of "its not a bug, its a feature" mentality.
I’m a little confused… the area with the camera and sensors is still always dead space right? Or do notification icons go over it?
I like the idea, but they went over aesthetic vs true function. All I see is wasted space above the dynamic island time and other info up there. All should have been shifted up. just my 2 cents. Wasted space.
I'm not sold on it as a whole, but it does something most haven't done that embraces the loss of screen space for a camera, sensor or speaker. I think it actually points out the wasted space more than the notch did. I don't think it will be around for long.
Not sure about that. This is the same guy that told everyone they were holding their phone wrong and that's why it was losing signal.
I don't get the hype, this could all be replicated on any phone but placed in a better spot, like all the way at the top of the phone. This is the Apple reality distortion field at its best. It just seems like Apple finding some way to spin around a negative aspect, like creating crap like stage manager to cover up for the awful window/task management of MacOS and iPadOS.
The notch may be a pile of lemons but this is some damn good lemonade.
Duh, seems a damn gimmick to me... as far as I know this is the hardest point of the screen to reach... so turning this into an interactive area, not sure it's a good idea.
I don't like it. I feel that having a little light and color above the notch will always remind us that it is there. In previous iPhones, you get used to it and don't see it anymore.
I don't get why they would not just make it smaller and stick it all the way to the top.
I don't get why they would not just make it smaller and stick it all the way to the top.