re: #253 lawhawk

The notch.

Yeah… it sounds dirty, but in reality it’s about Google identifying a design standard for the phones where other manufacturers have to abide by it. It’s about maximizing available space on the screen and leaving room at the top and bottom for the microphone/speaker/camera, but allow additional messaging to be placed around the notches.

It’s about Apple having to have some place to put the lasers for face recognition, so the iPhone X has a notch in the top of the screen. This was apparently the crime of the millennium, judging by the online screaming about it.

Now a lot of Android phones are copying the notch so they’ll look like iPhones, despite it serving no purpose for them. This is OK, it would seem—no bitching to be heard.