Developer Marco Arment Shares Thoughts On iPhone X's Notch (marco.org)

Developer Marco Arment writes about the infamous notch on the iPhone X, which Apple has told developers to embrace rather than ignore: This is the new shape of the iPhone. As long as the notch is clearly present and of approximately these proportions, it's unique, simple, and recognizable. It's probably not going to significantly change for a long time, and Apple needs to make sure that the entire world recognizes it as well as we could recognize previous iPhones. That's why Apple has made no effort to hide the notch in software, and why app developers are being told to embrace it in our designs. That's why the HomePod software leak depicted the iPhone X like this: it's the new basic, recognizable form of the iPhone. Apple just completely changed the fundamental shape of the most important, most successful, and most recognizable tech product that the world has ever seen.

Comments

Re:Not worse than the headphone jack

[JohnFen]

Removing the headphone jack is about waterproofing.

Why couldn't Apple figure out how to make a waterproof device with a headphone jack? Other devices have been managing it for years.

Re: In real use that will almost never matter.

[TimMD909]

You people who don't rotate end up shooting videos vertically. You are the root of all that's evil in this world and YouTube. Rotate your damn cell phones.

Re:Who is 'Developer Marco Arment'?

[JohnFen]

And why should we care?

I care about this for the same reason I care about the headphone jack: I fear that other manufacturers will copy this shit from Apple.

Re:Seems like non-Apple people care more about loo

[0xdeadbeef]

I thought Apple people were the ones who cared about superficial looks, but that does not appear to be the case.

This is how a fanboy admits that Apple really fucked up the aesthetics.

But who does that from a tab bar, honestly.

"It's not bad ergonomics if I can train myself to stop doing it."