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Google Bans Android Phones From Having Three or More Notches (theverge.com)
Google is building official notch support into Android P, but it's laying out some ground rules first: two notches is the limit. From a report: In a blog post for developers yesterday, Android UI product manager Megan Potoski wrote that Google is working with device partners "to mandate a few requirements" for app compatibility purposes. Among those are limits on notches. The mandate says that Android P phones can't have "more than two cutouts on a device." Only one notch is allowed per side, and notches are only allowed on the top and bottom edges -- not the left and right.
Why does the notch have to be near the speaker and the mic. When I rotate the phone what were once sides are now top and bottom, it's just a short fat phone.
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They could have refused notches completely and mock Apple for doing something so ugly and impractical.
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This headline just made me laugh and laugh and laugh, thinking of some phone company exec saying to his staff:
"If the people want notches, by God we will give them notches! Notches on the back, on the sides, on every screen edge! Two on larger edges! I want all notch proposals on my desk by tomorrow morning and there better not be a single place I can think of having a notch that does not have one!".
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You mean manufacturers aren't allowed to cut notches on their phones when they take another aspect of a user's privacy? Movement privacy = one notch. Health info = second notch ...
Fuck everything. We're doing five notches.
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OK, I know what a physical notch is, but what does it have to do with phones other than aesthetics? What is "notch support"?
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Maybe describe what a notch is in the summary for those of us whose lives don't revolve around our stupid phones.
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If you told me a few years ago that putting a cutout on the screen itself would be a thing... if you later told me that a company like Google would limit the amount of cutouts directly on the screen to "just" two... The Tech industry is not what I expected and even harder to predict. Assume *inane* as the driving force behind "innovation", I guess, and work from there.
Don't Hispanic phones have "Bonus Notches" ?
They could have refused notches completely
That ship sailed in October 2011, when Notch's company Mojang listed Minecraft: Pocket Edition for sale on Android Market (now Google Play Store).
A notch is typically a rectangular cutout on one side of the screen to make room for front-facing cameras, physical buttons, etc.
The quoted description is a long way to say, "The top and bottom edges may each have a single notch."
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I'd define a "notch" as a concavity in the outline of a handheld device's screen to accommodate a speaker, front-facing camera, or microphone. The iPhone X was the first well-known smartphone to have one, which Apple calls the "sensor housing", and apps such as Halide have adapted to show indicators in the "ears" on either side of it.
Let me correct you, Google: zero notches is the limit and the notch in the Pixel 3 XL is the most horrible thing I've ever seen.
... zero notches. Of course, maybe I'm alone in not being not bothered that my phone is 0.25" longer than a "notchy" phone in order to accommodate a camera and speaker. (If phone size were all that important to me, I wouldn't have encased the thing in an Otter box case.)
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You know, most people don't notch their bedpost every time they pleasure themselves while looking at Hentai Porn on their smart-phone.
There...are...four....notches
Two shalt be the number of notches thou may install, and the number of the notches shalt be two or less. Zero thou may choose, and one is righteous in my sight, and thou mayst proceed to two, but thou shalt not proceed to three. Four is right out.
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So now "notch" is the word we use for "occlusion" when talking about shitty screen design?
Won't they get fined by the European Union for anti-competitive notch-ism?
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Give me 90 degree corners (not rounded ones), a 16:9 screen, and bezels instead of notches where needed. I want a big screen, and want to see and use all of it.
Many designs for phones these days just making them annoying to use.
Sony got the right idea with the XZ2 Premium. I wish more manufacturers would go back to that. Stop making the phone "pretty", and make it fully usable.
I would have been happy if my Nexus 7 (2012) had gotten a fix for the shutdown issue. And that's a "Google" device too. Those Android OEMs only make money when they sell the device, so they only care about selling you a new device.
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... what the simple fuck is a notch and why am I furiously outraged that Google is doing this to the children.
I'm an iPhone user from day one. Work pays for them.
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
Stop being idiots and fix these two arbitrary and stupid restrictions:
* Rotate to upside down. It never makes sense to forbid it, maybe have an option to disable for that one person who thinks it's a great feature to not be able to do it
* Rotate home screen on handset. Come on, there are a significant number of users who use their gigantic phones in landscape, not portrait. Maybe have an option to disable that for the one person who thinks its a great feature to be unable to do it.
Thanks guys, Remember, you are are smart people right? So act like it. I know I can get these by installing an app, but just don't be jerkoff micromanagers ignoring the wishes of users ok? At least, try to keep that down to a dull roar.
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Two notches please. One the full width of the device at the top. The second at the bottom, and also the full width of the device.
Remember when the Apple mouse had one button while all of the others had more than that? Except Microsoft didn't limit mice connecting to Windows to just two buttons.
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