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Internet Reacts to iPhone 14 Pro's Dynamic Island: 'One of Apple's Best Designs'
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The dynamic island is cool but in some ways it's worse than the notch. It hides key status icons:
Yeah but now notifications are forked. This is why I wish they'd find a way to make this work with existing notched phones. It's just a fancy banner with a floating area above it anyway.
They absolutely could do that if they wanted. With notch we have the same dead space as with pill just a little bit larger. On iPhone 13 they can just make space around notch interactive in the same way dynamic island works. But ofc they wont do that, its Apple.
I know it's off-topic, but comments like this always confuse me. It seems like every thread there are comments about unclenching, calming down, deep breaths, etc. Why is it people are allowed to be excited but not unimpressed? Both seem like equally valid opinions to share.
On-topic, it's a stupid name but it looks cool. I don't think it's worth sounding the trumpets and declaring that it's the most innovative thing to happen to the world in decades, though. It's just a fancier way of displaying banner notifications and status icons in a way that helps you forget about the hardware elements. Cool, but not world shattering.
*unclenches*
Gimmick Island is a cool software fudge for disappointing hardware.
I don't know, man, we're talking about watching a movie on a frigging cellphone.
If I care that mouch about things like that, wouldn't I watch it on a big screen with good sound in a quiet comfortable setting such as my living room?
Seriously, this. is. a. phone. Not a TV. For occasional watching. Your brain will filter out the pill in no time.
It's clever and aesthetically-pleasing, very much what Apple is known for. Functionally it adds very little though, and doesn't change the feeling of any non-screen area being a stopgap until under-screen camera and Face ID becomes viable.
Way better than the early hole-punch concepts though, thank goodness...
Way better than the early hole-punch concepts though, thank goodness...
Following the introduction of the iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max with the all-new Dynamic Island feature, which intelligently integrates the new pill-shaped notch replacement into iOS for system alerts and functionality, internet users have reacted in an overwhelmingly positive way to Apple's new UX design.
In the US, "iPhone 14 Pro" and "Dynamic Island" were trending on Twitter after Apple's "Far out" event as users praised Apple's implementation of the pill shape directly into the user experience. "By a long mile, this is my favorite feature of the new iPhones 14 Pro and 14 Pro Max. Apple really made good use of that long pill hole cutout," is how one Twitter user reacted following the event.
"Dynamic Island may be the best design work from Apple in years," another user said. Dynamic Island includes smooth animations for how alerts and other information such as Now Playing intelligently morph around the camera cutouts to free up space in other parts of the display. Carl Pei, the CEO of Nothing, even chimed in, calling it "smart" and saying that Apple's always-on display on the iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max is the "best implementation" of the technology he has ever seen.
"The Dynamic Island is one of Apple’s best designs in recent history. Turning what should be a downside into a useful feature," said Ian Zelbo, a popular concept creator known for his realistic renders of Apple products based on leaks and rumors. Other users also shared their thoughts:
The iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max, other than the new Dynamic Island, include an always-on display, a new Main 48MP camera, and more. They will be available for pre-order on Friday, September 9, and begin arriving to customers a week later on Friday, September 16.
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Steve Jobs' daughter mocks Apple's iPhone 14 with a meme, hinting it's the same as the previous model
Eve Jobs is the youngest of the Apple cofounder's four kids and the daughter of Laurene Powell Jobs.
Steve Jobs' daughter mocks Apple's iPhone 14 with a meme, hinting it's the same as the previous model
Eve Jobs is the youngest of the Apple cofounder's four kids and the daughter of Laurene Powell Jobs.
Well seeing as how it’s also a calculator and a camera and a day planner and a calendar and a health monitor and well 100,000 other things…..
We have billions and billions of hours of media played on these “ phones “ and guess what you might be in the 0.00000023% that have this opinion.
It’s a media device.
And guess what? People watch movies on it.
Get over it.
Exactly, it's so many things. And it does amazing at those things. But that also ineviteably means compromises. It's just the nature of trying to fit as much as possible into a single format.
Oh but I have gotten over it as I'm not getting all worked up about getting minor intrusions into the screen while watching a movie on a tiny 6" screen.
Your brain is an amazing thing. It'll will tune it out. Just as it tunes out your nose which technically is *always* in your view...
Dynamic Island is cool and looks very nice. Apple's software implementation around the pill is great!!
I think it's kinda impressive that no news about dynamic island leaked at all. Sure, we got rumours about the pill cutout, but the context was missing in those leaks. The rumours came across as more scattered and less coherent overall. I know people were criticising the pill-shaped cutout, saying that it didn't really save any more space compared to the old notch design.
These people weren't wrong, but it's telling that nobody was able to connect the dots and piece all the rumours together to get a clearer picture of just what Apple was trying to get at.
Not a bad effort made in doubling down on leakers this year, Apple. Not a bad effort at all.
These people weren't wrong, but it's telling that nobody was able to connect the dots and piece all the rumours together to get a clearer picture of just what Apple was trying to get at.
Not a bad effort made in doubling down on leakers this year, Apple. Not a bad effort at all.
Coudn't agree more. Samsung did a great Job @ the galaxy s22. Fantasy island was only made to cover those ugly holes and made it worse.
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It's dead space because they kept it so big, punch holes are all over the place now and barely noticeable - not saying it's the only solution, but I feel like Apple just sells their gimmicky solution as something revolutionary when it's really just a fancy visual effect. Clever but not actually useful.
More “Bitter Pill” replaced by “Love Island”.
Masterful move IMO. Somebody earned their bonus.
Agreed. It’s like hanging a painting over a stain on the wall: Suddenly everyone’s applauding the artwork!
One masterstroke and the conversation’s changed.
Your apple logo avatar has a notch on the right side
Edit: Would a Dynamic Island be better?
Just wondering when the Apple logo will have, instead of a bite, a "Dynamic Island" missing part on the right side of the apple 😁
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