The top of the new, revolutionary iPhone is just ugly. What were the designers thinking?
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The iPhone 8 cut-out at the top is not innovative.
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Well it is the same people that think this (camera bump) is innovative…
And this (camera bump and antenna lines)…
Go with the same designers and you get the same results.
Are you wanting to make some kind of fashion statement by wearing the new iPhone on your arm or around your neck, for that "look at me I want to be hip and cool" look?
I agree. Not the kind of flowing design I would have expected from apple. I'll bet things were last minute rushed.
Let's not forget that more hideous vertical camera bump. The iPhone gets uglier every year, it's like they discuss new ways to make it uglier.Well it is the same people that think this (camera bump) is innovative…
And this (camera bump and antenna lines)…
Go with the same designers and you get the same results.
So companies like Apple don't spend months designing their products? They rush things out at the last minute? Interesting
Well, by this point I am of the firm belief that Apple considers the camera bump to be a feature. How else to explain what seems to be a larger and larger bump in every revision of the 6 series?
I've been told that in order to maintain the thinness of the phone at the current (or larger) size that physics determines that there will be a bump. I find that difficult to accept given that multiple non-Apple manufacturers can produce phones equivalent in dimensions but with cameras that are flush with the casing. Apple can still maintain a flush camera with the SE as well.
So, ultimately, that tells me Apple considers this to be a design feature. It's one I totally disagree with. But you know, there were people who bought the Pontiac Aztec so that style of design has people who appreciate it.
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Yes. The iPhone 6s/6s+ and the iPhone 7/7+.
Imagine Samsung has a camera bump and a awkwardly shaped cut out, people here would be laughing their asses off.
I think it's intended to replace the old look of the front of the phone with the circular home button. Now they have a new signature look.
I don't understand any of apple's design choices now. Just like I don't see the purpose of that ugly cutout on the iPhone 8, when the galaxy s8 and note 8 don't have that on their edge to edge display.
Totally agree. No idea why they think this is acceptable.
I really don't think so. The 6s, being an "s" model, wasn't expected to have anything but improved internals, which it did. The 7 took flak for not being the re-design that people expected, and for losing the headphone jack, but I still don't remember so many people complaining pre-announcement.
I do, at least with the 6 anyways. Most people's ire was directed at the antenna lines though.
The Samsung phones don't have an edge to edge display. The bezel on the top and bottom is massive and what apple is providing is screen to the edge, all around, except where technically impossible. Samsung reduced their bezels by a couple mm and called it a day.
It's a thoughtful design that will stand out amongst the droves of generic slabs that have come and are coming out.
Sooo. They will stay black when you're screen is showing something white?
I think people are getting tired of the same old design/idea with a few tweaks. A new/better screen, a lay down camera, no headphone jack, and now no home button, blah, blah, blah.
I agree some features may be a step forward, some are just stupid. What are the benefits of reorienting the camera? The volume button is on one side, then the other. Why? The power button is on the top, then the side... It really is not anything original or new. Just tweaks. Heck they even came out with a "new phone" (The SE) that looks like an "old phone".
Innovative, and revolutionary, no way.
You would be surprised then just how many products from multi billion dollar companies
slap stuff together and then let marketing convince the customers that they spend an agonizing amount of time on design and implementation.
Jony Ive spent the last couple of years caring more about the flow of conduits through the new apple campus' parking garage than product design. And now it shows.
There have been over 1 million cell phones designed in the history of the world and iPhone 8 is the FIRST to have the cut-out. I'm not sure whether it's a great feature or not (will wait for Tim Cook's presentation to find out) but to claim that it isn't innovative is a lie.
Yeah I mean Apple isn't the most valuable company on the planet with tens of thousands of engineers and 150+ billion in cash, oh and 1+ billion customers. Not to mention the logistics of manufacturing hundreds of millions of iPhones.
They just throw it together don't you know?
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Aside from the fact that both of your statements are not reality, I have a little surprise information for you:
Jony Ive is a single member of a 26-30 person industrial design team at Apple Inc. he leads the group in final decision making, but he does not lead the group with respect to design ideas. He's specifically stated that the group works together and he is told something he thinks is ugly and he has told others the same, that's how they work—together.
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This is what a brain with what humans call high intelligence, deduces from the available information.
Uh huh...and that's why we have thread after thread about it huh? Maybe it's just you that doesn't care? Good for you.
OLED's true blacks will help it blend in well, while the signal bars, battery meter and clock will be able to reside on each side of the notch and not take up usable app space on the display. These two possibilities in mind, it actually doesn't look that bad to me.
On the other hand, I am not fond of the camera bump on the iPhone 7. Even the iPhone 6s protruding camera with the metal ring around it looks nicer. Hope Apple does end up fixing this in the final iPhone 8 design.
On the other hand, I am not fond of the camera bump on the iPhone 7. Even the iPhone 6s protruding camera with the metal ring around it looks nicer. Hope Apple does end up fixing this in the final iPhone 8 design.