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blastdoor said:

I wonder if Apple might have fallen into the trap of competing on a line in the spec sheet rather than the entirety of the product. 

Apple has indicated that the "folding" aspect of OLED screens is what lets them get the edge-to-edge design.

Ancalagon said:

This article is dishonest by omission .... Dishonest, very dishonest.

I thought the CORE point was that Google was saying that 2-year-old devices will not be supported by Android P?

Your point about apps on the Play Store would be interesting... except that said apps are limited by the APIs provided by the OS. If a new app feature depends on a new system API, then that feature won't be supported when said app is downloaded on an older device.

So yeah, I can get "new" apps that may or may not have new features. Wow.

sflagel said:

Please stop calling a blurred background "bokeh". Bokeh is a very specific technique that converts light sources in the background into round spots, a blurred background is just depth-of-field.

As long as we're being pedantic about it, we should cover the minor fact that Bokeh is not a technique, but a characteristic of how the out-of-focus areas in an image appear.

A specific lens at a specific focal length at a specific f-stop focused at a specific distance has a specific DOF. Anything not in focus will be blurred to a greater or lesser extent, and the characteristics of that blur depend on the aforementioned factors. You can change those settings and get more items in and out of focus, but you can't change the bokeh.

Lenses with more aperture blades (and thus rounder apertures) tend to produce better bokeh, but that's not the sole determining factor.

macplusplus said:

2) This is not a matter of size, this is a matter of functionality. The removal of the single click Home button compromises functionality. Swipe gesture is not the same as tap or click. No one has dared to do that Home gesture single handedly in hands-on videos.

You mean, no one has dared to do the single-handed Home gesture... except for Apple, 45 seconds into their own iPhone X demo video. 



And again, 10 seconds later.

I mean, it's like you're not even trying....

It's a done deal. Here's the top of the same screen on iOS 11. Note how Apple increased the size of the title and moved it down, and just how much space is now devoted to the back/apps and All Categories buttons. 

Those are going to get moved down and the nav space reclaimed.