many Apple iphone owners complained about the notch, it was not a liked feature and iphone owners wanted it gone. Now Apple glam up and glitz up the notch and now suddenly iphone owners are saying they like the notch. Just how gullible can people get?
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Hopefully not!
The current notch in macbooks is already a hard pill to swallow...
Computer screens are landscape (by default), as opposed to phone screens; this means that vertical space is more valuable in computer screens. Not to mention that some of that vertical space is already lost to the dock area and the menu area.
Plus macOS has proper tasks management; the last thing it needs is more gimmicky ways of doing it (ahem! Stage Manager on macoS... ahem!)
Just like the touch bar is (a gimmick), in detriment of the function keys - which are useful and used by everyone doing actual work on a computer.
I am wondering how would most pro users react to a new Pro Display XDR with a notch or Dynamic Island on it; how would Apple dare to sell them such "innovation"?
This a billion perfect.
I’m tired of paying for the most expensive smart phone on the market just for some of screen my real estate to be stollen.
Steve would have seen the not and cut out and told his engineers to go back to the drawing board. He would have added a finger print sensor to the power button and told the engineers to not even think about adding all of the sensors and camera to the screen real-estate until they engineered a way to integrate it into the display without distracting customers.
Steve would have shot the notch and pill down with extreme prejudice.
Innovation isn’t productive to quarterly projections.
Tim Cooke has made the company mainstream drivel. Steve made sure they were more of a cult following. The alternative to boring, the yin to Windows yang.
Now they are the mainstream and it’s so cringe.
You know about Godwin’s law- if any online discussion continues long enough, someone will almost certainly compare someone else to Hitler.
In our case we have the “Jobs Law”. If any Apple feature argument continues long enough, someone will almost certainly channel what Steve Jobs would have done instead of the thing they don’t like.
Sometimes it happens on the very first post. And it is pathetic.
Bruh ... the notch became smaller last year, then a pill and hole punch no nothing
exaggerate much?! need to stop project emotions for companys, you faith is misplaced.
I actually LOVE it.
Its visually innovative on an old (Android) hardware concept and brings new life into iOS.
Comparing iOS 7, Jony Ive : Flat Icons, bland colours with layers to,
Comparing iOS 16, Allen Dye: 3D visually intoxicating and interactive UI ... you can see who's the key to bringing the best of Apple UI going forward.
The lesson here: NEVER get a hardware designer mess with your end user's graphical software UI. get both teams to work together NOT replaced one another!
Wasted space in 1mm above the dynamic island ... in that screenshot? what more can be used?
They may have an enormous R&D budget but as long as they get their screens from samsung they are limited in what they can do.
So what are you using now? In theory, if you aren't going to 'upgrade', whatever you have now is similarly not able to meet your needs... one would think that the other upgrades (e.g. faster CPU, better I/O, etc) would be worth it despite the lack of change in RAM
Good that it doesn't faze you I guess... wasn't really an accusation on their part - just a comment that paying for something often does have an effect on one's opinion on said thing. Of course calling things 'FUD' doesn't generally give people confidence in your objectivity. Further, for somebody who refers to 'my iPhones' - you certainly seem to have a VERY negative opinion of them... almost like you don't have one - but hey, if you can afford a/multiple Fold(s) and iPhones, good for you.
Regarding the folding phone, you absolutely seem to be in the minority for having 3 generations and no reliability issues... recent reviews have noted the opposite of that, and didn't they stop selling/recall the initial generation because of reliability problems?
No it was definitely an accusation: "however, given that I didn't pay for the phone, and you did, perhaps our objectivity levels are not the same." It's definitely FUD, just inane spouting because he personally doesn't like the phone, it's clear in his choice of wording like "POS," hardly the pinnacle of objectivity.
I also love my iPhones, but as with any device, including my Fold 4, there are things that I dislike about them. On the reliability, I can only give my anecdotal experience, exactly the same as reviewers, but if you have hard data/stats you would like to share feel free to do so. Samsung sold around 10 million folding phones in 2021, and by most reports they will easily surpass that in 2022, I don't see any widespread reports of failures, nothing since the Fold 1, and IMO most no more than any other phone including the iPhone which I have had hardware failures with in the same time period.
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