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Well Chris Pirillo Absolutely Roasts the X's UI
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Vlogger posts iPhone flame video that’s 40 mins long, draws in gullible and profits. Thanks for sharing, hope you are getting commission 
Vlogger posts iPhone flame video that’s 40 mins long, draws in gullible and profits. Thanks for sharing
He's not making much money from that channel, believe me. The whole thing appears to be an exercise in self-indulgence for him. If he was intent on making money, he wouldn't be producing content like that.
That’s all his job is, get views, from early streaming to his websites, get views and clicks. They don’t make anything, they just produce content to generate clicks with no benefit to anyone but themselves. Call it part of the dumbing down of society and lump him in with reality tv etc.
I'll reserve judgement until I see it and use it in person. I certainly wouldn't take the ramblings of Chris Prillo as gospel on how it will work.
'Absolutely no reason' is too reductive.
The easy solution would have been to just have a solid plastic bezel to line up with the notch. So dead space but hey, the screen will still be a rectangle.
Instead they’ve opted to use that space to put the status bar information, which actually gives apps more usable vertical space because there isn’t a need for a horizontal bar across the screen like on the older phones.
Honestly the complaints on the notch aren’t about the actual notch, they’re about the colour of the ears. I hope Apple adds an option to make the ears black just so people shut the hell up about it.
Closer to £2.00.
Plus what the rest of the balance in there is earning. Result = Monthly interest is enough to buy an overpriced Apple case to go with that iPhone X that I can’t afford according to the post I quoted.
That’s if I decided to waste my money on either of those things. (Which I won’t).
You know it's been my experience that people like him who talk so much about their resources in such a condescending way, usually have the least.
I listened to about 5-6 of his videos in a row and I couldn't stand it any longer. He throws the baby out with the bathwater on so much. His selective turning of a blind eye to a huge swath of thing on that Pixel 2 of his while making mountains out of molehills on both iOS and the iPhone were just too hypocritical for my tastes.
I'm totally down to "roast" Apple on a plethora of things that don't make sense, are annoying or not user-centric, but he fails miserably in establishing himself as the voice of reason he continually propagates through his videos.
(Also he's milking the crap out his newfound attention for being edgy and so against-the-grain towards the iPhoneX and iOS release with video after video about it).
I'm totally down to "roast" Apple on a plethora of things that don't make sense, are annoying or not user-centric, but he fails miserably in establishing himself as the voice of reason he continually propagates through his videos.
(Also he's milking the crap out his newfound attention for being edgy and so against-the-grain towards the iPhoneX and iOS release with video after video about it).
I don’t know how people listen to the locker gnome without wanting to gouge their eardrums out of their heads. I think he comes across as kind of a pompous windbag, personally.
I get that some people don’t like “the notch”, but personally I don’t get the hate. I think it’s functional, distinctive, and will be forgotten in a few hours of use. If you don’t like it so much that you’re not going to buy it, so be it, but stop letting it consume so much of your concern and attention.
I get that some people don’t like “the notch”, but personally I don’t get the hate. I think it’s functional, distinctive, and will be forgotten in a few hours of use. If you don’t like it so much that you’re not going to buy it, so be it, but stop letting it consume so much of your concern and attention.
I thought Chris is too busy making preproduction plans for Star Wars 9? Oh wait...
At least Pirillo doesn't look like James Rolfe and Austin Evans.
At least Pirillo doesn't look like James Rolfe and Austin Evans.
Looking at this comparison, it's actually all the more clear why Apple decided to design the iPhone X the way they did.I usually don't watch this guy because his voice totally irritates me, but he's absolutely right about the ugly perma-notch. Design decisions at Apple are questionable.
Looking at the render on the right, it looks completely generic, like every other Android smartphone on the market today. What has made the iPhone design such an icon is the distinctive silhouette, the round home button. Even when the phone is reduced to its most basic elements, such as in a comic, the iPhone's design is instantly recognizable. The same can be said about the notch, as the home button has now been eliminated.
Additionally, looking at hands-on videos of the iPhone X, the lack of bars at the top and bottom of the phone make it seem almost like an immersive experience. It's as if you're looking through a viewer, and the sides of the phone are just a frame. You don't get the same feeling with the design on the right.
The decision to make the notch the way it is is an exercise in good industrial design and UI design. It's the best solution to the problem of incorporating the sensor array into a bezelless phone.
I love uncovering posts like this after the launch
I’ve learned over the course of my life that the things that do bother me, are things that I let bother me.
Im just going to use the phone, enjoy it, and not be ocd about anything.
Im just going to use the phone, enjoy it, and not be ocd about anything.
Your logic may be extended to a car company that decides to produce a car with three wheels instead of four by justifying its decision on the basis of wanting to stand out from among its rivals. In Apple's case, function has take a backseat to aesthetics, which by the way, is not very appealing to the eye.
How does this design hinder the function of the phone, exactly? Outside of seeing the notch in full screen mode videos?
The more I see the notch the more I think its the right call. It makes the scree feel larger and fuller while also giving a unique look.
I can see apple making the notch smaller in the future.
I can see apple making the notch smaller in the future.
So are the stupid ugly lines on the iPhone 4. As MacRumors deemed at first glance: very un-Apple-like.
As for the X: design is how it looks, not how it works. Removing physical bezels only to use software bezels makes perfect design sense.
Even with a software bezel at the top, it’s more symmetrical if the display curved elegantly at the bottom but have sharp 90-degree angles at the top.
Showing off the continual curves on each corner is ugly. Apple made the wrong trade-off. It should be aesthetics above all else. Maximizing display and reducing bezels is so anti-Apple. Look at the award-winning and revolutionary Samsung Galaxy S8. A work of modern art. It will be remembered as a defining moment in our human history. Big curved display, plus top and bottom bezels. Thank God the display does not extend into the corners.
The good news is that this can all be undone with a software update if/when Apple comes to regret its decision.I usually don't watch this guy because his voice totally irritates me, but he's absolutely right about the ugly perma-notch. Design decisions at Apple are questionable.
And how exactly are you qualified to comment on what is and isn't good industrial and UI design? The sensor array is precisely what doesn't make the phone bezel-less. An elegant solution would have been to leverage the deep blacks of the OLED screen to make the notch imperceptible/invisible during normal use, as this would have still accomplished the same end result of having notifications on either side of the notch, and more screen space for apps.
As it turns out, the notch disrupts a seamless viewing experience in full-screen and landscape mode, which, in my view, is really atrocious UI design. Plus, the lack of a home button necessitates adopting awkward gestures that are not intuitive, and simply not elegant in any way. Two separate UIs (notifications vs. control center) depending on which side of the notch you scroll down from - are you serious?
You said it yourself - that's exactly how it ruins the end user experience. I specifically don't want anything obscuring my full screen view, especially a bar of cameras and other sensors that aren't necessarily better than a touch senor they're forcibly replacing.
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This is Apple you're talking about - its hubris precludes it from going back on poorly thought out design choices.
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Wait, so he didn't even have the phone or use it once when he made this? That's not called journalism though, it's called an OP ED.
The notch, the notch, THE NOTCH!! THE NOTCH RAPED MY FAMILY! Guess what, after a week or two you won't even notice it, that's how the brain works because if you still hate it that much and focus on only the notch, you probably have OCD.
The notch, the notch, THE NOTCH!! THE NOTCH RAPED MY FAMILY! Guess what, after a week or two you won't even notice it, that's how the brain works because if you still hate it that much and focus on only the notch, you probably have OCD.
I see that I have found the primary thread for people to make excuses in order to justify their purchase of an iPhone 8 or 8+. Enjoy your bezels.
I suppose I was trying to ask how the notch disables any functionality of the phone? You had said that function has taken back seat to aesthetics. I fail to see how the notch stops ANY functionality on the phone.
You were also giving reference to a three wheeled car as opposed to four. This analogy isn't really a good one because we've seen a lot of three wheeled vehicles on the market, of which they are selling quite well in some circumstances, and they kind of look weird at first glance:
Three wheeled mopeds:
Three wheeled two seaters (Slingshot):
Three wheeled motorcycles (Yamaha Niken, just announced):
The point I'm trying to make is that just because the aesthetics aren't what you're USED to, doesn't mean that they've lost function. They function the way they were meant to function. These vehicles are still capable of being driven, carry passengers and cargo. They're able to provide recreation. They're able to do what they were designed to do.
The iPhoneX is no exception. The notch, while not what we're familiar with in design, does not hinder the functionality of the device. The device will still show video, still play games, and display websites, and GPS, and take photos and so on and so forth. The notch is not going to hinder that functionality. Rather we will have to adapt at how we view that content the way it was designed to be viewed on that particular device. That is all. Some people may find it as an annoyance, some people don't care, and most people will just probably get used to it and it will be an afterthought.