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just no.
Sad thing is I won't the the option to say no because some customer is going to complain that that his site doesn't work on his iPhone X and that some other websites work fine. Thanks Apple for yet another item we have to deal with because your "special". /s
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Yes, Because Steve Jobs is akin to Jeff Bezos, can run a company focusing on consumer needs rather than lust for wall street. While Tim Cook's job is running the company from Front while also giving hope the shareholders much of what Ballmer Schmidt did. Maybe this is high time for us to get over this thought, Oh Steve wouldn't have done that. In fact, Steve launched the iPod with a scrolling ball. Steve launched an…
In fact, Steve launched the iPod with a scrolling ball. It was a click wheel, not a scrolling ball. Even now, the click-wheel would be a good UX: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPod_click_wheel Steve launched Newton. Come on now--Steve was at NeXT when the Newton was released. John Sculley launched the Newton. Steve launched an iPhone with antennagate. As Apple and Steve demonstrated, most smartphones at that time did…
I like that the Webkit team decided to use standard features to solve this, but OTOH having to add custom safe areas for a single device goes against any common sense. No Apple, we won't change all our websites for your new gimmick.
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Apple has kept the previous year's model around at a lower price for a long time, but with limited storage options it was obviously positioned as being only for people who couldn't afford to pay any more. Or who didn't need or want anything more. Most of my older relatives would be with a 16 or 32GB iPhone SE for example. This year I can't even decide for myself whether to get a X, an 8, or just stick with my 6+. If…
And in some cases, the bewildering array of options makes the decision difficult. I don't even know if the X is actually better than the 8 for me, let alone whether it's worth the price premium. Things have really gone sideways with the X, because there's no longer an obvious best. The X is worse than the 8 in important ways, like no Touch ID and no home button. It's better in other ways. Which one wins? I don't know…
I think you're over thinking this—the iPhone X is by far the best phone anyone has ever made. Think of it as the deluxe iPhone 8.
You're assuming Face-ID is a detriment; however, Apple wouldn't have shipped it unless it was as at least as good as Touch-ID. Perhaps you should read something from someone who's used one: https://daringfireball.net/2017/09/iphone_x_event_thoughts_a....
Being a long time Apple observer, both professionally and personally, I call bullshit on this "Steve wouldn't have done this or that" crap.
Things change; Steve was known to change his mind when that was the right thing to do. What Steve did back in 1997 with the 4-product matrix is what Apple needed then, a company that had lost its way. Apple's total revenue then was a little over $7 billion; now $50 billion quarters are routine.
Apple has sold over 1 billion iPhones since 2007; it generates around 66% of its revenue. It clearly makes sense to have different models available for different consumers, not just in the US but globally, where more than half of its revenue comes from.
It wouldn't be possible to keep up this momentum if they only sold the newest and most expensive phones without being accessible to those who who need a device 1/3 or 1/2 of the price of an iPhone X.
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And in some cases, the bewildering array of options makes the decision difficult. I don't even know if the X is actually better than the 8 for me, let alone whether it's worth the price premium. Things have really gone sideways with the X, because there's no longer an obvious best. The X is worse than the 8 in important ways, like no Touch ID and no home button. It's better in other ways. Which one wins? I don't know…
Things have really gone sideways with the X, because there's no longer an obvious best. The X is worse than the 8 in important ways, like no Touch ID and no home button. It's better in other ways. Which one wins? I don't know. I think you're over thinking this—the iPhone X is by far the best phone anyone has ever made. Think of it as the deluxe iPhone 8. You're assuming Face-ID is a detriment; however, Apple wouldn't…
Perhaps you should trust my evaluation of these models, when it comes to my own purchasing decisions?
Will Face ID work well? I bet it will. Will it work better for me than Touch ID? I have no idea. And Gruber’s brief experience with it tells me nothing. His tastes and mine do not align much.
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Whether or not Apple does this, others will. The web platform needs a well-considered generic approach to non-rectangular displays to support a widening array of devices: watches, medical devices, decorative displays, industrial controls, e-paper-type displays wrapped around a pipe, etc. They could have multiple panels of different sizes, have holes in the middle (not just the edge), be extremely curved, or whatever.…
Apple is using W3C blessed standards: * https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/1693#issuecomment... * https://drafts.csswg.org/css-values/#calc-notation * https://www.w3.org/TR/css-round-display-1/#viewport-fit-desc... (Apple is doing the meta tag version of the @viewport descriptor)
Which means they are in fact NOT using W3C blessed standards.
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Yes, Because Steve Jobs is akin to Jeff Bezos, can run a company focusing on consumer needs rather than lust for wall street. While Tim Cook's job is running the company from Front while also giving hope the shareholders much of what Ballmer Schmidt did. Maybe this is high time for us to get over this thought, Oh Steve wouldn't have done that. In fact, Steve launched the iPod with a scrolling ball. Steve launched an…
In fact, Steve launched the iPod with a scrolling ball. It was a click wheel, not a scrolling ball. Even now, the click-wheel would be a good UX: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPod_click_wheel Steve launched Newton. Come on now--Steve was at NeXT when the Newton was released. John Sculley launched the Newton. Steve launched an iPhone with antennagate. As Apple and Steve demonstrated, most smartphones at that time did…
I like that the Webkit team decided to use standard features to solve this, but OTOH having to add custom safe areas for a single device goes against any common sense. No Apple, we won't change all our websites for your new gimmick.
You don’t need to. They seem to have a sensible default.
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Device specific extra pixels were a bad idea. Further modifying web design standards to account for them is making the problem ten times as bad. Where's the CSS declaration that tells Safari to make those pixels black so no one has to care about this? Unplanned sections of background color around your header bar is not "displaying existing websites beautifully".
> Where's the CSS declaration that tells Safari to make those pixels black so no one has to care about this? body { background-color: black; }