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What a mess. My condolences to the Apple engineers who had to implement this. The notch is probably something that marketing thinks is really important for bran
by bla2 9y ago
What a mess. My condolences to the Apple engineers who had to implement this. The notch is probably something that marketing thinks is really important for branding reasons, but I'd guess most engineers dislike it. Yet some of them had to add all this complexity to their codebase.
- alejandromaka 9y agoimagine the disappointment when hearing that you have to write this article
- mcast 9y agoApple's industrial design team has always had more influence and sway over the final product than their OS/developer teams.
- aeriklawson 9y agoI think Apple (and especially Ive) would definitely prefer if the phone was notchless and 100% display. The issue is where you put the various sensors on the front - even with just a camera you’re still going to have a notch (see the Essential phone) until we can use these sensors behind an OLED screen. Phone manufacturers are going to be shooting for the bezelless design for the foreseeable future so this issue isn’t something that’s going to be isolated to Apple alone. The alternative is an asymmetrical bezel, which is “less sexy and cool” than the (mostly) edgeless design. Defaulting to this avoids the problem, but you’re no longer hip. This is another weird case of being in a transitionary period (wireless headphones is another) of functional design. Until the kinks are worked out, we’re just gonna have to deal with the weirdness because it’s not going away.