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This is mindboggling to me why Apple designers thought it would be a good idea to have that black inset in the new iPhone, any ideas what's the reason behind th

• sandov 9y ago
  Courage.
• tqkxzugoaupvwqr 9y ago
  My guess: Since the bezel is thin on three sides, they didn’t want to give the phone a big forehead by planting a comparatively big black bar at the top. I think their solution is bad. The inset makes the front of the phone look busy/unclean/techie. It’s lacking elegance. They should have reduced the left and right bezel to nearly zero and added a small bezel at the bottom that matches the one at the top to create symmetry. Basically, just shrunken iPhone 7 bezels on all sides and a rectangular screen. Edit: If rumors were true and they wanted to put Touch ID below the screen, their goal might have been a phone with the same bezel thickness on all sides. But Touch ID below the screen didn’t work and they had to add sensors to compensate – compromising by creating an inset.
  • robocat 9y ago
    > [they should have] added a small bezel at the bottom that matches the one at the top to create symmetry This is a terrible idea - you can’t quickly tell which way the phone goes up. Have you used a Moto G2? you should also try to be less arrogant when talking about the work of others ;-)