I don’t care about the notch on the new MacBook Pro, as long as all the app menus can stay on the left of it. However, I was looking at the MacBook Pro today in a shop here in Europe and I noticed that, in a lot of apps, the app menus in the menu bar do “jump the notch” due to a lack of space at the left-side of the notch. This happened even with fairly common apps such as Microsoft PowerPoint, even on the 16" model.
It seems to me that Apple mainly thought about English speakers in deciding to go for the notch. When you use macOS in English, the names of the app menus are quite short compared to e.g. French and German. You can notice that even in a simple app like TextEdit:
File / Edit / Format / View / Window / Help
Fichier / Édition / Format / Présentation / Fenêtre / Aide
Ablage / Bearbeiten / Format / Darstellung / Fenster / Hilfe
While the area on the left of the notch is big enough for a simple app like TextEdit, in more complicated apps you’ll have more app menus and thus more app menus jumping the notch, especially in non-English languages (except of course Chinese etc.). Not great for non-English speakers, especially for those of us who have a lot of status items at the right-side of the notch.
It seems to me that Apple mainly thought about English speakers in deciding to go for the notch. When you use macOS in English, the names of the app menus are quite short compared to e.g. French and German. You can notice that even in a simple app like TextEdit:
File / Edit / Format / View / Window / Help
Fichier / Édition / Format / Présentation / Fenêtre / Aide
Ablage / Bearbeiten / Format / Darstellung / Fenster / Hilfe
While the area on the left of the notch is big enough for a simple app like TextEdit, in more complicated apps you’ll have more app menus and thus more app menus jumping the notch, especially in non-English languages (except of course Chinese etc.). Not great for non-English speakers, especially for those of us who have a lot of status items at the right-side of the notch.
