A couple of thoughts on this cut-out business. These days, the leaks and the actual thing are mostly the same these days, so I think we should come to terms with the fact that the cutout will be there.
Now, whether there could be more elegant ways to use the screen space on either side of the cut-out is the real challenge for Ive and his much-vaunted design team to figure out. In my view, the only way for this to look aesthetically pleasing is to always have the notification bar in black - all apps should necessarily start at the first the full line of pixels below the cut-out. However, it indeed remains to be seen how Apple manages to cram in the myriad of other notification icons such as Bluetooth, LTE, VPN and so on.
In any case, it isn't difficult to see that this is far from the device Apple would have 'liked' to release and that there were significant compromises made during development(the cut-out, large camera bump, no real design iteration, lack of TouchID, etc.), likely due to timing pressures.
I can't help but think the iPhone X will debut with many technologies and ideas in their infancy, from a hardware standpoint, with the next iteration being the one where we will see true refinement. Whilst the original iPhone was a fairly mature device from a hardware standpoint, and benefitted mostly, at least until the iPhone 4 came out from refinements on the software front - the inverse is likely to be true of iPhone X successors, in that, they will benefit from leapfrog improvements as a result of groundbreaking new technologies, such as in-display acoustic fingerprint imaging, miniaturized sensors, and better overall component yields due to a mature supply chain.
I think mobile operating systems are fairly mature at this point, so we will likely see innovation on the hardware front in the next few years as opposed to software - and I say this because let's face it, macOS has been languishing (in my view) since Leopard. I really think the iPhone X will be a foundational release for many technologies that will become ubiquitous within the next decade. Just my $0.02 - thanks for reading.
Now, whether there could be more elegant ways to use the screen space on either side of the cut-out is the real challenge for Ive and his much-vaunted design team to figure out. In my view, the only way for this to look aesthetically pleasing is to always have the notification bar in black - all apps should necessarily start at the first the full line of pixels below the cut-out. However, it indeed remains to be seen how Apple manages to cram in the myriad of other notification icons such as Bluetooth, LTE, VPN and so on.
In any case, it isn't difficult to see that this is far from the device Apple would have 'liked' to release and that there were significant compromises made during development(the cut-out, large camera bump, no real design iteration, lack of TouchID, etc.), likely due to timing pressures.
I can't help but think the iPhone X will debut with many technologies and ideas in their infancy, from a hardware standpoint, with the next iteration being the one where we will see true refinement. Whilst the original iPhone was a fairly mature device from a hardware standpoint, and benefitted mostly, at least until the iPhone 4 came out from refinements on the software front - the inverse is likely to be true of iPhone X successors, in that, they will benefit from leapfrog improvements as a result of groundbreaking new technologies, such as in-display acoustic fingerprint imaging, miniaturized sensors, and better overall component yields due to a mature supply chain.
I think mobile operating systems are fairly mature at this point, so we will likely see innovation on the hardware front in the next few years as opposed to software - and I say this because let's face it, macOS has been languishing (in my view) since Leopard. I really think the iPhone X will be a foundational release for many technologies that will become ubiquitous within the next decade. Just my $0.02 - thanks for reading.
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