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Re: Remove the Notch

#21

Post by joenathanone »

chadlavi wrote: post #11

There's just no pleasing people. "Here's more screen real estate, but it's not contiguous." "No! I hate you! This is an abomination! I will black it out and make it useless." If they hadn't made any camera updates people would also be ticked about that. 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…

I can't help but thinking that there is an option in between those two choices.

Re: Remove the Notch

#22

Post by villasv »

chadlavi wrote: post #11

There's just no pleasing people. "Here's more screen real estate, but it's not contiguous." "No! I hate you! This is an abomination! I will black it out and make it useless." If they hadn't made any camera updates people would also be ticked about that. 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…

It doesn't become useless though, the menubar is still there. It just makes the menubar black so the notch is less noticeable.

Re: Remove the Notch

#23

Post by jedberg »

joenathanone wrote: post #21
chadlavi wrote: post #11

There's just no pleasing people. "Here's more screen real estate, but it's not contiguous." "No! I hate you! This is an abomination! I will black it out and make it useless." If they hadn't made any camera updates people would also be ticked about that. 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…

I can't help but thinking that there is an option in between those two choices.

What exactly would be between "we put a screen next to the camera" and "we put a bezel next to the camera"?

Re: Remove the Notch

#24

Post by fishtacos »

chadlavi wrote: post #11

There's just no pleasing people. "Here's more screen real estate, but it's not contiguous." "No! I hate you! This is an abomination! I will black it out and make it useless." If they hadn't made any camera updates people would also be ticked about that. 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…

I don't understand it either, but it can and should have been easily fixed by a built-in OS feature instead of having to get a separate app for it. Android allows this, for example in developer settings for applicable phones.

Re: Remove the Notch

#25

Post by zozbot234 »

chadlavi wrote: post #11

There's just no pleasing people. "Here's more screen real estate, but it's not contiguous." "No! I hate you! This is an abomination! I will black it out and make it useless." If they hadn't made any camera updates people would also be ticked about that. 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…

Huh? The menubar is not "useless", it works the same as it always has. It's just styled differently.

Re: Remove the Notch

#26

Post by ljm »

chadlavi wrote: post #11

There's just no pleasing people. "Here's more screen real estate, but it's not contiguous." "No! I hate you! This is an abomination! I will black it out and make it useless." If they hadn't made any camera updates people would also be ticked about that. 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…

It's just that Apple will have you think that nobody has ever developed a laptop screen with a smaller bezel, and thus the revolutionary and innovative approach is to just obstruct the display.

The macbook has basically gone from having a comically huge bezel to something people will consider a nuisance.

Dell did similar with the XPS 13 when they put the camera lens on the bottom corner of the screen, and it wasn't too long before they sorted that one out.

Re: Remove the Notch

#27

Post by arcticbull »

chadlavi wrote: post #11

There's just no pleasing people. "Here's more screen real estate, but it's not contiguous." "No! I hate you! This is an abomination! I will black it out and make it useless." If they hadn't made any camera updates people would also be ticked about that. 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…

I strongly encourage folks to think about the the notch not as "space taken away from a 14in display" but rather that a smaller display was expanded to fill all usable space. macOS UI paradigms lend themselves very well to a notch in the top, as top area can be split into two regions, one for menus and one for status widgets as we have long been doing anyways. Just like iOS utilizes the left region for time and the right region for status.

I think with a couple of usability tweaks, and giving folks a little while to get used to it, they'll get over it. And probably really like it.

Kvetching will continue until boredom ensues.

[edit] Sent from my M1 Pro 14" MacBook Pro... ExtraPro. Did I mention it's for Pros?

Re: Remove the Notch

#28

Post by jonny_eh »

chadlavi wrote: post #11

There's just no pleasing people. "Here's more screen real estate, but it's not contiguous." "No! I hate you! This is an abomination! I will black it out and make it useless." If they hadn't made any camera updates people would also be ticked about that. 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…

> I will black it out and make it useless

I'm so confused, do you think this app disables the camera or something?

Re: Remove the Notch

#29

Post by smoldesu »

chadlavi wrote: post #11

There's just no pleasing people. "Here's more screen real estate, but it's not contiguous." "No! I hate you! This is an abomination! I will black it out and make it useless." If they hadn't made any camera updates people would also be ticked about that. 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…

With all of Apple's liquid cash I was kinda hoping they'd find a way to have their cake and eat it too.
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