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Good. Maybe he would have spent more energy defeating android by not letting iOS languish and become uncompetitive.
Not necessarily. At that moment, the focus was on litigation and infringement. Other than the Samsung lawsuits, Apple was also suing Motorola and HTC. So imagine Apple spending its money on lawyers and lawsuits. We would probably still on an iPhone 5 at best today since Jobs would have no inclination to do phablets.
 
Steve Jobs would have never allowed the notch
Just like Steve Jobs would’ve never allowed thick antenna lines down the side of a phone.
Or a screen bigger than 3.5 inches.
Or an iPad Mini.
Or non-upgradable RAM.
Or a pointless Apple logo in the middle of the screen of early OS X builds.
Or a round mouse that was so terrible that it was called one of the worst mice of all time.
Or The launch of a cloud service that was so bad it crashed Apple‘s servers for almost an entire week.
Oh wait… he did, he did, he did, he did, he did, he did and he did.
Steve Jobs is not the unbending never changing Unconvinsible mastermind that everyone thinks that he was.
He made compromises, he introduced products he might not have gotten at first, he frequently contradicted himself, sometimes within months.
Would he have allowed the notch?
We will really never know, but my guess is that, much like many other things he introduced, it’s quite possible he could’ve hated it at first and then actually used it and realized it barely affects anything.
I think Steve would have loved the fact that the notch allows the bezel around the entire screen to be symmetrical. That’s definitely something that he would’ve been proud of
 
I don't think Apple has ever binned iPhone chips before (aside from raising the clock speed in iPads), have they?
I suspect if the non-Pro models don’t receive the new chip it will receive the iPhone 13 Pro version instead similar to how the non-Pro 13 received the iPhone 12 Pro display specs minus different notch size.
 
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