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This is a good point.

On Windows, a notch in the same place would be very noticeable.

On Mac OS, you'll likely have nothing in that part of the screen most of the time anyway.

Apple makes bad engineering tradeoffs all of the time, but I'm not convinced that this is one of them. Most people will just be glad to have a bit more vertical real estate to work with.

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On Windows, you could pull essentially the same trick by putting the start menu at the top.

I mean, in Windows 10. Not 11 because they half-ass rebuilt it, heh.

It would be annoying in something like a full-screen game, though. It's not uncommon for them to have important UI elements right at the top center.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28938184

Yeah but that would be absurd design: "75% of taskbar locations mean that you have a gap in your wallpaper."

I mean, not beyond the scope of a design that still has some windows that haven't been changed in 25 years, but you know.

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