Except there is plenty about the X which is better than any other iPhone.
Seriously. Are people being purposefully dumb?
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Except there is plenty about the X which is better than any other iPhone.
Seriously. Are people being purposefully dumb?
Seeing things differently than you isn't being "purposefully dumb". Whereas you are being "purposefully rude".
The gate is the little strip at the bottom. The handle is the notch. But you can't double tap the home button anymore to reach it.
Notchgate would imply there is a defect in the hardware, and even then the notch itself isn’t hardware, it exists because it has to house the front camera/sensor modules and the earpiece and allowing for the status bar info to be removed from the usable screen space.
There is no gate.
But there should be a door, window, curtain, blind that it could stay behind, unseen by human eyes until it is needed.
But there should be a door, window, curtain, blind that it could stay behind, unseen by human eyes until it is needed.
"Gates" typically are technical issues with hardware/software that interrupt the experience or a possible defect within the iPhone. The notch has no correlation to being a gate, it's strictly a physical implementation into the device and Is not a defect at all.
Look how lazily the notch has been implemented into the software. For this reason i think it qualifies
"Gates" are anything that is otherwise stopping someone from buying the phone, hardware/software or otherwise.
Some would argue the notch is a defect in design. I wouldn't necessarily disagree.
That being said, I hope it picks up steam. Then it'll be easier for me to pre-order an X on Oct 27th.
I disagree. I don't think Apple is lazy at all and they just designed something that not everyone agrees with. This company can't please everybody specifically for every feature.
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More specifically, I would say gates are usually hardware issues or software related that the consumer identifies after the new iPhone has been launched, then reports it, followed by other users locating the same intermittent issue, then becomes widespread and gets labeled a gate once the consensus is somebody else confirms the issue.
Adding 'gate' to the end of a word relates to the Watergate scandal. It's a term used for any major scandal. Apple/iPhones do not define what a 'gate' is, the response and reaction to something does. If the tech press unanimously pan the 'notch' in their final reviews and this impacts the design becoming the mainstream iPhone standard - that could well end up being referred to as notchgate.
Of Course Apple does not define what the gate is, as I mentioned before, it's the consumer that likely locates the issue or confirms what the problem lies within. But most recent gates have been a related issue affecting a certain feature or capability unintended. The Notch was intended and won't be rectified with any remedies. It's here to stay regardless.
Didn't take long for someone to use the expression gate completely inappropriately.
You know what the initial "gate" was, don't you?
there is a defect in the hardware. they built a screen that doesn't work with their existing software and breaks all sorts of ui.
as far as "they just designed something not everybody agrees with", can anybody, honestly claim that they've been like "oh i just wish i had a dirty great cut out of my screen where ui elements can hide behind and to cause a black cut out on my full screen video and games!"
or "damn, i wish my display was not standard shape. asymmetrical? even better!"
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