Internet Reacts to iPhone 14 Pro's Dynamic Island: 'One of Apple's Best Designs'

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?
 
mozumder said:
Great design. Just wondering if it'll come to MacBooks someday?
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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"?
 
Sad part is that the way they gave so much attention to such a prominent new UI design feature, we can guess that we will have to endure this "island"/pill black void for a few years to come, and no under display tech for a while...
 
dogstar said:
Even giving the iPhone a bit of a chin (like the iMac) instead of a notch, wouldn’t be so bad, if they used that chin to put in a top end speakers and a top end camera maybe. Just stop mutilating the display area.
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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.
 
DaneLA said:
As someone who hates the notch and never "gets used to it" like everyone else seems to, I was dreading the pill cutout. Yet when they rolled the tape even I had to smile. Would I rather have an edge to edge screen with slightly bigger bezels? Of course! But to those trying to raise the ghost of Jobs against this thing, I'd argue this is the exact type of elegant solution to an inelegant problem that he made a name for himself on.
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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.
 
base08 said:
Sad part is that the way they gave so much attention to such a prominent new UI design feature, we can guess that we will have to endure this "island"/pill black void for a few years to come, and no under display tech for a while...
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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.
 
TracerAnalog said:
Wait! Did someone say: ‘if Steve was still alive...’ out loud? My bingocard is filling up pretty fast with these gems!
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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.
 
brofkand said:
It's amazing how people are cheering Apple making the notch bigger and moving it into the display area.

The only thing revolutionary about the dynamic island is Apple's talent in selling it. It proves the reality distortion field is still alive and well I suppose.
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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.
 
TheYayAreaLiving 🎗 said:
The Dynamic Island reminds me of the "Touch ID" alot. I'm shocked tho because no one was expecting this. Hopefully, it's not just the gimmick.
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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!
 
spcopsmac21 said:
I understand it would take a lot of money and engineering to develop a screen with a front facing camera with the smaller real estate possible. But it’s been done many times.
I also understand apples face recognition and LiDAR sensors take up space.
But apple had the LARGEST development budget on the planet when it comes to phones.
But it doesn’t feel like it. Apples a master of engineering a problem for us, then slapping a glittery bandaid over it. It’s been the modus for a decade now.
If Steve Jobs were still alive the notch, island wouldn’t exist. He would have told them.
“ no one wants a chunk of their display taken from them, they don’t want the distraction”
But here we’re are. Being distracted.

Innovation hasn’t been apples strong suit when it comes to form factor.
When they get rid of these Fantasy islands and slap an “ M “ chip into my iPhone I’ll start enjoying my new iPhone again. After I pay $1500 for it…
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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.
 
UltimaKilo said:
For everyone complaining: phones are a mature product and there’s not much more they can do with them, for now.

The lack of extra RAM on the Pro models is what will keep me from upgrading, however. 6GB is certainly not enough for my needs.
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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
 
spinedoc77 said:
Nope, doesn't phase me. If you are saying I love my phone because I paid for it then you are dead wrong, but the accusation doesn't surprise me. Nothing wrong with you not liking the phone, you're more than entitled to your opinion, just wanted to set the record straight on the other inane FUD spouting.
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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?
 
KUKitch said:
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?
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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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stephanjp said:
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.
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Samsung has made amazing strides in the technology they produce in screens. Yet apple is tapping into displays Samsung has been using for the last three years…..
 
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