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I'd rather not have something so needless as an edge to edge screen, and thus not worry about the notch at all. I really don't see the value proposition of an

I'd rather not have something so needless as an edge to edge screen, and thus not worry about the notch at all. I really don't see the value proposition of an edge-to-edge screen being that significant.

soulofmischief 6y ago
That's fine if the value proposition is not right for you, and that's why we have such a breadth of phones available today. One person's aesthetic preferences are not always the only way to do things. I think the only thing we should all be able to agree upon is that rounded screen edges make it extremely difficult to design a good phone case which protects from all angles.
- Twirrim 6y ago
  > and that's why we have such a breadth of phones available today We really don't. Apple came up with the notch, everyone copies it and obsesses about edge-to-edge display, managing to implement it to very varying degrees of success. > I think the only thing we should all be able to agree upon is that rounded screen edges make it extremely difficult to design a good phone case which protects from all angles. I forget which phone I had with a display that went to the vertical edges, which were curved slightly. Damn thing was almost impossible to hold without it thinking I was trying to actually touch the screen on the edge. The best case I could find stopped that from happening, with a slight trade-off that I couldn't touch anything right on the edge of the screen (very rarely ever needed that)
  - soulofmischief 6y ago
    We have dozens of flagship models, and hundreds of models in use today. The notch is a pretty stupid design decision and I'm not obsessing over it. I have this phone now because I went through four Google Pixels this year just trying to get one that wasn't defected out of the box. My current phone was a cheap sub-$400 flagship model with support from Paranoid Android meaning it has a much extended lifespan. It's not because I obsessed over an edge to edge display. I didn't know about the touch-sensitive issue bc I've never purchased a phone with rounded screen edges. That sounds very frustrating.

soulofmischief 6y ago

That's fine if the value proposition is not right for you, and that's why we have such a breadth of phones available today. One person's aesthetic preferences are not always the only way to do things. I think the only thing we should all be able to agree upon is that rounded screen edges make it extremely difficult to design a good phone case which protects from all angles.

Twirrim 6y ago
> and that's why we have such a breadth of phones available today We really don't. Apple came up with the notch, everyone copies it and obsesses about edge-to-edge display, managing to implement it to very varying degrees of success. > I think the only thing we should all be able to agree upon is that rounded screen edges make it extremely difficult to design a good phone case which protects from all angles. I forget which phone I had with a display that went to the vertical edges, which were curved slightly. Damn thing was almost impossible to hold without it thinking I was trying to actually touch the screen on the edge. The best case I could find stopped that from happening, with a slight trade-off that I couldn't touch anything right on the edge of the screen (very rarely ever needed that)
- soulofmischief 6y ago
  We have dozens of flagship models, and hundreds of models in use today. The notch is a pretty stupid design decision and I'm not obsessing over it. I have this phone now because I went through four Google Pixels this year just trying to get one that wasn't defected out of the box. My current phone was a cheap sub-$400 flagship model with support from Paranoid Android meaning it has a much extended lifespan. It's not because I obsessed over an edge to edge display. I didn't know about the touch-sensitive issue bc I've never purchased a phone with rounded screen edges. That sounds very frustrating.