AppleInsider readers are split on the iPhone X notch, but most support Apple's decision to...
It wasn't quite a landslide vote, but AppleInsider readers came down in favor of Apple's decision to highlight and not hide the so-called "notch" housing the camera, sensors and earpiece atop the iPhone X edge-to-edge display.
With 1,853 votes tallied on Twitter, AppleInsider's highly unscientific survey of 1,853 readers found that 57 percent of respondents think Apple is right to embrace the iPhone X notch.
Conversely, the remaining 43 percent of those polled would prefer that Apple hide the area atop the display. In fan-made mockups, this has been done with a black background matching the notch and the borders around the screen, obfuscating where the screen ends and the notch begins.
But Apple has chosen to highlight the notch in iOS 11, having user interface elements bleed up into the spaces to the left and right of the intrusion.
In fact, during Apple's iPhone X keynote, the company even showed full-screen videos played with maximum size, leaving part of the picture cut out by the notch. However, attendees who got a hands-on with the iPhone X afterwards -- including AppleInsider's own Daniel Eran Dilger -- were told that by default full-screen video will shrink down to avoid the notch.
It's clear Apple has gone out of its way to embrace, rather than hide, the protrusion into the display.
Though Apple's decision has been made, the discussion rages on. How would you prefer Apple handle the notch on the iPhone X?
With 1,853 votes tallied on Twitter, AppleInsider's highly unscientific survey of 1,853 readers found that 57 percent of respondents think Apple is right to embrace the iPhone X notch.
Conversely, the remaining 43 percent of those polled would prefer that Apple hide the area atop the display. In fan-made mockups, this has been done with a black background matching the notch and the borders around the screen, obfuscating where the screen ends and the notch begins.
But Apple has chosen to highlight the notch in iOS 11, having user interface elements bleed up into the spaces to the left and right of the intrusion.
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In fact, during Apple's iPhone X keynote, the company even showed full-screen videos played with maximum size, leaving part of the picture cut out by the notch. However, attendees who got a hands-on with the iPhone X afterwards -- including AppleInsider's own Daniel Eran Dilger -- were told that by default full-screen video will shrink down to avoid the notch.
It's clear Apple has gone out of its way to embrace, rather than hide, the protrusion into the display.
Though Apple's decision has been made, the discussion rages on. How would you prefer Apple handle the notch on the iPhone X?
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I support that.
- And videos can be viewed with black borders which hide the notch.
I don't see a downside here.
Edit: I also love dramatic change like this, the kinds of things some people just can't handle.
There are numerous status indicators that can tuck into the space on each side of the notch - no sense letting this space go idle. Don't know if the OS provides a way to toggle the display to allow users to scale the content when the notch is problematic and hiding wanted content. My guess is this won't be a common problem, but wouldn't take much to provide a tool to resolve it when needed.
Howrver, there MUST be a feature available to put a black bar where the notch is when watching landscape video or gaming. Otherwise, it's quite the horrendous drawback.
Here's my comment about the notch before release and I'm confident this will hold up in years to come...
"You do not understand design, it would look ugly if they tried to permanently disguise it. As it is now the design is timeless, keeping in mind that there's no way not to have sensors on the front of the camera. Notice that cars had grills initially as a form follows function thing where they needed air flowing over the radiator. Then consumer cars embraced a clean no grill look when it became unnecessary. But notice how even though not needed any longer luxury car makers jealously guard their iconic grill designs. While not in this league, that is nevertheless how I perceive the notch. The 'notch and ears' will be Apple's equivalent of the famous car grills a good one of which is Bugatti, compare a 1930's Bugatti grill with the grill on their Veyron."
Over time as the tech evolves the notch will continue to shrink. Until display tech becomes sufficiently advanced and all of these functions are, dare I say “magically” present in display. Until a company can actually produce an under display camera and proximity sensor, for example, all the patents in the world saying so are meaningless.
iPhone ex is the best Apple can do right now. It’s their state of the art. And no, I won’t pronounce it “ten”, and not because Gruber said so. But because getting me or the general populace to pronounce the X as “ten” will never happen. “MacBook One”, “iPhone ex”. I know what Roman numerals are. We see them all the time on film credits. No one cares. It’s an iPhone with a notch, not Lawrence of Arabia. Ain’t happening. Deal with it, Schiller.
Android was first to notch, but their notch is inferior to the supremacy of Apple's notch.
Since beginning it has never been an issue. But because there is so little to criticise apart from the still unknown FaceID, people latch to the only obvious difference.