The iPhone 6S Plus is able to have landscape mode home icons, which they "accidentally" had to deprecate to support the stupid notch on future iPhones. This was a horrible degradation that was obviously meant to guide people to iPad sales if they want a portable machine instead of using an iPhone with a bluetooth keyboard. It's frustrating to spend so much money on a company that literally shits on it's professional class of customers/users. Now, they are introducing a notch on computers for literally no good reason. Apps like the one shown in OP are honestly sad. Nice work making it but this isn't a good long term thing to need to have.<p>I don't know what to say, Apple might just be a lost cause. Too bad I have spent 10K on computers since 2015 because finally they reintroduce ports and all the shit the spent half a decade saying we would "move beyond" - hopefully there is a class action lawsuit for selling shit that is in retrospect extremely unusable.<p>Tired of this, it's pretty fucked up
i'd have much rather that apple remove the camera entirely to support a nearly bezel-less, notchless screen.<p>then for folks who want a camera, apple could have added a smart connector and magnets near the top back of the lid to clip on a camera when needed. it would have been a real win for privacy[0], and they can do their little trick of excessively marking up accessories to boost revenue. it's even better than a physical on-off switch, since 'off' literally means <i>off</i>. the camera could then be thicker, which means no need to compromise on image quality due to the physical limitations of the bezel/lid.<p>[0]: unlike the theater of their 'privacy report' (in beta), which doesn't let you block any of the trackers they surface.
I thought this feature was built in, but maybe not? All I can find is <a href="https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212842" rel="nofollow">https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212842</a> which seems to be on a per-app basis.
It's really interesting that the notch was basically only an option on a Mac laptop. It doesn't work at all with Windows or KDE. It <i>almost</i> works on Gnome.<p>But with macOS, the menu bar has been there since the very beginning, and the center of the bar has been increasingly empty as resolutions increased. A fortunate coincidence.<p>The notch is here to stay, until good cameras get a lot smaller. It just makes a ton of sense as a solution.
There's just no pleasing people.<p>"Here's more screen real estate, but it's not contiguous."<p>"No! I hate you! This is an abomination! I will black it out and make it useless."<p>If they hadn't made any camera updates people would also be ticked about that.<p>Edit: I thought people were using this to push their menubar down below the level of the notch and creating black dead zones on the left and right of the notch. But I still think it's silly and picayune for people to quibble about the color of the menu bar.
That's not the only way to hide the notch: <a href="https://twitter.com/jsngr/status/1453341112635166720" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/jsngr/status/1453341112635166720</a>
I hoped this would be a campaign to stop the notch insanity on phones. Give us the full screen back!<p>(I have a OnePlus 7 Pro -- I bought it precisely because it doesn't have that nonsense.)