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Steve Jobs reviews the iPhone X

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I don’t think there is anyone who doubts that the iPhone X would not look like it does if Steve Jobs was still alive.

I don’t know what it would look like, nobody does, but I am pretty sure he would have never approved the camera sticking out in the back, since 6.

Having said that, I still think it’s the best phone out there. Wish they didn’t have to bump up the price, but hey-ho.

I still think it’s the best phone out there

It's not out there, and no one's even used it in the real world - how can you make that call?

"he would have never approved the camera sticking out in the back" +1

With the X they had the opportunity to make the phone the same thickness as the camera and fill the gap with extra battery - just to see if folk would prefer the flat back and extra battery life over the sticking out camera. Sadly they missed the opportunity.

Symmetry and clean lines are nice but they aren't the only thing. It's never bad to let an object be what it is.

I don't mind that phone's notch because it just shows what it is. If the phone is a screen you just look at, then a clean, unbroken rectangle makes sense.

But the phone X is also an object that looks back at you. And listens to you and talks with you. The sensor array acknowledges that in a visceral, plain way.

In fact, hiding it would be a little weird... like the one-way mirror of an interrogation room. You know they're watching you but you don't know exactly who, how, and when. It a little off-putting to hide it and conversely, a little reassuring to make it obvious. And it's just nice and natural to have something to look at or talk to when you want the phone to see you or hear you.

Heh, was expecting a video of a corpse rolling in its grave.

Not a huge fan of the little face camera dingleberry at the top, but what I really find ugly on the iPhone X is the sides. You've got the screen, then a tiny little bit of black, then a tiny bit of bright, shiny silver.

It just looks all wrong and the shiny silver is horrible - too close to the first gen iPhone and it'll take all of about 2 days for it to get covered in scratches and fingerprints.

The Essential Phone, did the same thing with the front facing camera, placing it there, is a nice design choice, but apple wow, do you need that much space?

Also gone is the design compromise that was the home button.

I remember reading a while back that Steve Jobs hated the button on the iphone. The button was added as a compromise.

It may be, that this is the real vision of Steve Jobs. But that being said, I doubt if Steve Jobs will fully like the iphone X as I am reminded of the iPhone5 ad about size being a "dazzling display of common sense"(https://youtu.be/O99m7lebirE). So iphone X's design is just lacking in common sense?

FYI: I personally have a 5S, Nexus 7 2012 & laptop. I feel a mobile bigger than SE is impractical and its better to get a Samsung Note.

Worth noting there have now been more releases of iPhone (whether you count yearly announcements or iPhone versions) after Steve Jobs passed away than before.

Rumours say he took part in some of the future generations' designs while he was alive.

When Tim Cook was under heavy criticism for Apple’s product line, Apple let it known that the lineup had been planned four years in advance under Steve Jobs. Maybe not in all its detail but nevertheless.

IIRC, Steve himself said 3-4 generations, and that was pre-iPhone 5. So the steaming notch of shit is all Jony.

And no, blacking it into a dark status bar isn’t a lie. What’s a lie is having designated areas of the screen you’re not allowed to “draw attention to” per the new HIG. https://developer.apple.com/ios/human-interface-guidelines/o...

(Look at all the wasted space in Landscape orientation, just to not draw attention to the disfigured screen. And yes, I’m a little grumbly from having to rework some of my stunt designing in the app I’m working on to work on the X)

What is meant by intrusion on the screen?

I believe it's referring to the section at the top of the screen that contains the camera and other sensors.

that, because it is such a travesty considering the previous designs. the technology wasn't ready but I think Apple was desperate to make the claim because it sounded good and went for it anyway.

I really do believe that if Steve Jobs was around this would never have happened. It is so anti-Apple it is astounding

The technology was fine. They could have easily made the whole top of the phone containing the "notch" a bezel or at least not shown anything on it but a status.

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