Well I heard that iPhone 60 will be implanted in our forearm and will have no notch at all. I can’t wait!
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'iPhone 13' May Have a Smaller Notch
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I don't care about the average consumer, I care about having secure banking apps on my phone. And just having a single camera under the screen is not secure.
How do you know they haven't done anything about it. Obviously Apple isn't going to ditch the notch solution, which they probably spend years developing, after just two years, but you are assuming that they haven't been busy developing their next solution. Even Xaomi isn't going to ship actual under screen cameras until next year and they don't have to deal with the full array of sensors that Apple uses. Beyond that tech, using the Android alternatives would mean a pop-up panel, having six "holes" in the LCD, or having a larger phone forehead.[/QUOTE]
It’s been 4 years, not 2. And yes, I expect Apple to find a way during this time, instead of pushing three tepid annual iterations in a row and spreading thinner with each generation to cover more sizes and recycled specs, creating pure SKU bloat. The difference with Sculley is that now they’re profitable.
You don’t know that to be fair. I’ve filed for patents a couple of years before a product is launched because industries can be small and people talk. It’s about protecting IP in the short and long term. Apple have more R&D resources than probably most companies on earth so I think if a patent has been put on motion, you can bet it’s being developed.
Granted, the 2018 article refers to exclusive use on the watch https://www.patentlyapple.com/paten...po-tft-technology-to-extend-battery-life.html
Fact remains that it’s taking its sweet time to be developed, and I doubt it’s because of living up to Apple’s standards. We’re talking about the same company who’s skipping cost by using LCD displays (“Liquid Retina” BS as if it means something) and 6 year old phone designs up until 2020.
That's your "Personal" expectation. But you have no way of knowing what is happening inside apple. And of course if you(not you personally, the royal "you") are displeased with their product line, there is always vote with your $$$.
And about the Sculley reference. Yep against all odds look at where Apple is now.
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To be fair there I think the LCD use was purely down to suppliers squeezing higher prices for the OLED displays at the time. Apple wouldn’t have been able to offer the XR/11 at the price point they did unless it came in at a sensible cost. The LCD’s they used were excellent though and you didn’t find mass complaints.
What's the point if the notch is slightly smaller or not ? It's still nothch and users don't care. If Apple put Faceid along with TouchID on power button than biometric authentication bases are covered with or without face mask.
When reliable,just works under the screen touchid arrives than notch will go away. Tech evolution.
When reliable,just works under the screen touchid arrives than notch will go away. Tech evolution.
With Apple's design prowess and the talent they attract, the fact that they settled on a notch and are sticking with it, suggests there are few people at the mothership who will say "this is crap," which happened often under Steve. Apple is worse off for it too. Notches, missing headphone jacks, and dongles is a strange legacy from the same company who revolutionized the way we interact with computers.
Well, you have no way of knowing what's happening inside Apple either, but the writing on the wall is one of royal procrastination, SKU bloat and picking one low hanging fruit at a time. Rinse and repeat. We've seen so much iterative development over the last years, that's also overcompensated by cringe scripted marketing, isn't it about time we saw something truly revolutionary come out of Cupertino?
Personally, yes, I do feel displeased and disenfranchised, just not THAT displeased to upend the entire ecosystem I'm used to and invested in for decades.
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True, but I didn't claim I did.
Okay, I get that this is your opinion. But it seems like this type of strategy is the antithesis of a good customer retention and revenue strategy. Now I understand if it walks like duck, quacks like a duck...etc. But we really don't know the rational behind a lot of what Apple does.
The technology doesn't require a notch. I do not understand your point, but whatever floats your boat.
Not about sitting on it, the panels needed for this are provided by Samsung so really not much they can do at this point when it comes to ltpo
Under display tech is damn hard to do which is why it will debut on fold 3 and not S21. Even too android phones will have to wait til 2021/2022
From where I see it? Minimize risk on the device end, merchandising a broad safe range like it's Sony or Philips, and double down on subscription services instead. No more product excellence or "one more thing-s". It's been iteration after iteration for years now, I doubt we'll be seeing anything revolutionary coming out of Cupertino again.
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The bezel fanatics had to have their way. So they got it. And now we have the notch because of it.
Nope. I can't do it. I dislike (putting it slightly) the notch and hole punch cameras so much I will not buy them. It would feel like I'm buying a flawed product. Makes finding any newer phone a lot harder.
It’s a covid world. We are having to type in our passcodes while wearing face masks.