Comment by pompino
5 months ago
A customer should care about looking at a retail product with their own POV, not someone else's. This is the classic "you're holding it wrong" response.
5 months ago
A customer should care about looking at a retail product with their own POV, not someone else's. This is the classic "you're holding it wrong" response.
OK. I'm the customer here, and I'm looking at it with my own POV. I think it's neat that I have extra pixels to hold the menu bar so that the rest of the screen can be dedicated to the apps I'm running.
Good, so are you going to pay Apple twice? Once for creating the problem, and again when they develop the under-screen tech to fix it?
Um, yeah? I bought my current laptop with the extra pixels at a time I needed a new laptop. If Apple comes up with a way to add more extra pixels by the next time I'm looking to buy one, I'll get that.
The notch is an improvement over the old thick bezel design. Presumably they'll find an even better solution down the road. When they do, I'm not going to complain that they didn't jump forward to the currently nonexistent technology on the first iteration.
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The under screen tech doesn't even exist in a product today.
Did you want Apple to hold off on giving people extra real estate until that happened ?
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Apple added 74 px vertically and the notch lives entirely in that space. It's simply more real estate. What is the "problem" they've created? That's like complaining about my apartment coming with a balcony
no it's just a fact. before the notch, the parts of the screen either side of it were not screen, but now they are. the complaints about the notch literally boil down to "it's not enough extra screen".
The only "fact" here is that Apple is going to milk you twice. Once when they sold you a knowingly flawed design and again, when they finally develop the tech to eliminate the notch, Apple fans will happily line up to pay them again.
It's more the classic glass half empty vs half full response. Although given the small size of the notch, it's more like 10% empty vs 90% full.
I don't see a problem with criticizing the one of richest companies in the world on legitimate issues, or holding them to a very high standard. They can defend themselves just fine. I'd give a smaller company much more leeway. I own several Apple products (often the ones I criticize the most are the ones I personally purchased and used long term), but I'm not part of the Apple "community" or other Apple fanbases.
“Screen half black vs half lit up”