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Your article speculates about why Apple doesn’t hide the notch, but doesn’t address why it’s there in the first place. It’s there to have a place to house the

by jmull 9y ago

Your article speculates about why Apple doesn’t hide the notch, but doesn’t address why it’s there in the first place. It’s there to have a place to house the various front facing sensors/emitters while sharing verticals space with usable screen area. Once you decide to do that you have to answer the question of how to deal with the border line between the two. Obviously, you don’t want something ugly. (1) hide the border. This means anything and everything displayed on-screen next to the notch has to be on a black background. (2) create a non-ugly border and let it show. Perhaps the decision to go with (2) was influenced by branding considerations but it’s a secondary decision, not the “only purpose. And (1) isn’t exactly a great option, regardless.

hungerstrike 9y ago
Who exactly was asking for front-facing sensors to "[share] verticals space with usable screen area"? We've had front-facing sensors for a decade now. You put them in a bezel. Everybody is fine with bezels and you never hear anybody complaining about them. It's very telling that the Apple-ogetics never say "I love the notch", instead they say things like "it didn't bother me after a while". Huge difference. It's kinda like how they decided that the Macbook Pro needs to be lighter no matter what. I guess their logic is that "less is more", which is essentially a trite way of claiming that what you're doing is right without having to prove anything. Apple is just bad at design IMO. They always have been. Their OSes and their software have always had the just about the worst UI that I've ever seen and their hardware offerings have always been foisted on ignorant people who actually buy the less is more "logic".
- IntronExon 9y ago
  I didn’t agree much of what you had to say, but it was your opinion to express and that’s fine. Did you really have to break down and call people “tool-bags” at the end though? I can promise you it only prevents whatever point you might have from being heard.
  - hungerstrike 9y ago
    I'm okay with people not agreeing with me. It's a common plight for intelligent folk and I've pretty much had to be okay with it since childhood. Thanks for your suggestion though! I changed it to "ignorant people".
    - IntronExon 9y ago
      If you have to tell people that you’re intelligent while denigrating them, it says far more about the fragility of your ego, your anger and frustration than anything else. It might be youth, or it might be struggles with socialization, but if you want to communicate with other intelligent people without being picked out as angry and insecure, your approach could use some refining.
      - hungerstrike 9y ago
        Gee, do you always feel this urge to go around giving out free advice where nobody asked for it? You’re taking a harmless little jab to heart when it wasn’t even put in your direction. What does that say about you? Your appeal to maturity illusion won't work here. At this point I have very little respect for your opinion, so why don’t you just take your very easily offended act elsewhere? Honestly, people like you are what’s wrong with the world. Try to relax and breathe a bit okay bud? (Can I say bud or will that be assuming or gender??)

by jmull 9y ago

hungerstrike 9y ago

Who exactly was asking for front-facing sensors to "[share] verticals space with usable screen area"? We've had front-facing sensors for a decade now. You put them in a bezel. Everybody is fine with bezels and you never hear anybody complaining about them. It's very telling that the Apple-ogetics never say "I love the notch", instead they say things like "it didn't bother me after a while". Huge difference. It's kinda like how they decided that the Macbook Pro needs to be lighter no matter what. I guess their logic is that "less is more", which is essentially a trite way of claiming that what you're doing is right without having to prove anything. Apple is just bad at design IMO. They always have been. Their OSes and their software have always had the just about the worst UI that I've ever seen and their hardware offerings have always been foisted on ignorant people who actually buy the less is more "logic".

IntronExon 9y ago
I didn’t agree much of what you had to say, but it was your opinion to express and that’s fine. Did you really have to break down and call people “tool-bags” at the end though? I can promise you it only prevents whatever point you might have from being heard.
- hungerstrike 9y ago
  I'm okay with people not agreeing with me. It's a common plight for intelligent folk and I've pretty much had to be okay with it since childhood. Thanks for your suggestion though! I changed it to "ignorant people".
  - IntronExon 9y ago
    If you have to tell people that you’re intelligent while denigrating them, it says far more about the fragility of your ego, your anger and frustration than anything else. It might be youth, or it might be struggles with socialization, but if you want to communicate with other intelligent people without being picked out as angry and insecure, your approach could use some refining.
    - hungerstrike 9y ago
      Gee, do you always feel this urge to go around giving out free advice where nobody asked for it? You’re taking a harmless little jab to heart when it wasn’t even put in your direction. What does that say about you? Your appeal to maturity illusion won't work here. At this point I have very little respect for your opinion, so why don’t you just take your very easily offended act elsewhere? Honestly, people like you are what’s wrong with the world. Try to relax and breathe a bit okay bud? (Can I say bud or will that be assuming or gender??)