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If you look at iPhone iconography -- it's always been basically a rounded rectangle with a circle and square for the home button. Easily identifiable as an iPh
by wvenable 9y ago
If you look at iPhone iconography -- it's always been basically a rounded rectangle with a circle and square for the home button. Easily identifiable as an iPhone with just 3 shapes. With the home button gone, the notch is used to distinctively represent an iPhone.
Perhaps the whole thing is purposely form over function.
- kurthr 9y agoDon't believe that their competitors will have notch-less phones... they will copy slavishly! Count on it (unless they have a design latent in the notch).
- kurthr 9y agoYep, no patent on the notch. http://bgr.com/2018/02/01/iphone-x-review-android-copy-design-lol/ http://bgr.com/2018/02/01/iphone-x-review-android-copy-desig...
- twothamendment 9y agoForm over function? I think you nailed it. Would it be less expensive to manufacture using circles? Would sales decrease if they had? Would anyone really notice? I wonder how many man-hours were spent debating the shape of the corners.