Would Steve Jobs have approved the iPhone X camera notch?

[DNichter]

Yes

 

[9594864]

I honestly think if Steve was with us today, the iPhone 8 or "X" would still have gotten bigger... but the design would be similar to the iPhone 4 and 5 with the flat glass design and no round edges or camera bump. Apple found its signature look around the time and Apple just threw out Steve’s creation the moment he died.

The camera bump is intelligent design. It’s the knowledge that the minute relative surface area of the camera being the deciding factor in the device’s thickness is the obvious wrong thing to allow. You therefor protrude the camera so the other 90% of the case can be 1-1.5mm thinner, which is very distinguishable to the experience.

 

[x-evil-x]

That's largely because Jobs was a really good salesman. Sometimes I watch his keynote for the original iPhone, and he makes me want to buy the thing today!

He was. Something Tim is not. I really can’t see jobs pushing how the x is designed though. He would of thrown a fit on the camera bump and size increase of the 6’s let alone 4 years of the same design of phone

 

[TinaBelcher]

The camera bump is intelligent design. It’s the knowledge that the minute relative surface area of the camera being the deciding factor in the device’s thickness is the obvious wrong thing to allow. You therefor protrude the camera so the other 90% of the case can be 1-1.5mm thinner, which is very distinguishable to the experience.

Stopped reading right there lol

 

[alleggerita]

Perfectly sums up my feelings. It’s all for profit, yes while Steve was alive the phones were expensive. However they were truly amazing, the iPhone 4 was miles ahead of the competition.

The amount of leaks don’t help. Yes the iPhone 4 got leaked but Apple threw down the hammer on Gizmodo.

I always, always looked forward to Apple keynote. Now I don’t really care. This is the first phone since 3G I may not bother to upgrade straight away.

This I have to agree. The iPhone 4 was way ahead of its time with FaceTime, Retina display and BSI camera sensor and that gorgeous design.

It’s true that Apple under Steve’s era was like trying to impress consumers. Apple under Tim is like they are trying to impress investors...

But, as much as I can understand your concerns, Steve Jobs is the past. Apple is indeed different now but there’s nothing much that we can do about it. Just speak with your wallet. If you like it, geddit. If not, there’s always Andriod.

 

[trifid]

That's largely because Jobs was a really good salesman. Sometimes I watch his keynote for the original iPhone, and he makes me want to buy the thing today!

... a phone, a notch, an OLED device, do you get it? These are not 3 different devices!

 

[Joe h]

Problem is Cook doesn’t know how to make a phone for the 90%
The cook phones have been too ugly to be displayed, and too fragile to take out into the world naked. They’re meant for middle aged upper management executives that will never shed a tear if the phone hits the ground and cracks.

If told the camera needed to protrude, and the notch couldn’t be hidden, Jobs would have had scrapped this designed immediately.

Still better than the buggy crap Samsung glues together.

 

[Gathomblipoob]

Why don't we exhume his corpse and ask him? He's dead.

 

[alleggerita]

... a phone, a notch, an OLED device, do you get it? These are not 3 different devices!

I think it’s more like “a phone, a notch, a Kinect”

 

[oplix]

Steve Jobs would have fired pretty much everybody by now