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)

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.