“Like the iPhone 4 did in 2010, the iPhone X follows a highly successful iPhone model and diverts from its established formula with a new design and features that will cause our habits to evolve. The iPhone X doesn’t just add to an existing model – it remixes and changes our expectations of what an iPhone should be altogether,” Federico Viticci writes for MacStories. “I see more parallels between the iPhone 4 and iPhone X than, say, the original iPhone and the X: selfies becoming portraits, the advent of Retina and now OLED, and, yes, even being left in a bar and ‘being left’ inside an unreleased firmware.”
“The iPhone X, like the iPhone 4, inaugurates a new direction, with effects that will inevitably ripple through the entire iPhone line,” Viticci writes. “But beyond its striking, sensor-laden display and glass body, the iPhone X is a collection of major themes that will reshape the Apple ecosystem over the next decade.”
“It’s been a long road since the iPhone 4’s front-facing VGA camera. With TrueDepth on the iPhone X, Apple is going beyond selfies and FaceTime: from authentication and attention awareness to 3D effects and live scenes, the iPhone’s camera is maturing into a lens that brings us into apps and rich virtual experiences,” Viticci writes. “To discard TrueDepth as a mere enabler of Face ID would be shortsighted; the iPhone X’s camera system feels like one of Apple’s most important innovations in years.”
Tons more in the full article – recommended – here.
MacDailyNews Take: Even over a month later, each time we pick up iPhone X, it’s a delight. We haven’t been able to say that of many devices… Only the iPod and original iPhone immediately spring to mind. iPhone X is a triumph. It’s not perfect*, certainly, but it’s a tour de force, the world’s best smartphone by a significant margin.
*cough, notch, cough
Notch? What notch?
iPhone X, what’s notch to like?
“It’s not perfect*, certainly,” REALLY! It’s so good that you feel a need to tell us that?
And the worst you have to say is, “*cough, notch, cough”.
I think you could give that a rest now.
Whining about the notch on an iPhone is like whining about door handles on a car. They just can’t give it a rest. I’ve never heard any soldier complaining about the banana magazine on an AK-47 as being unattractive.
Not Magnificent. I handle on a door involves about a percentage of the total a car experience…and that’s being generous. The screen on the other hand, it’s like going to a movie sitting behind a big haired lady. There may be moments where you forget but, by and large, it’s an annoyance one is aware of most of the movie. The gun example is about is silly. If the magazine loads the bullets smoothly, precisely and effectively, especially in battle, you’d probably come to think that so-called ugly magazine was quite handsome. The notch serves no like benefit to the product were talking about. In fact, it detracts from the experience.
I’m truly over the dumb notch, but it’s the dumb notch rationalizers that posit it’s a (qualitative) differentiator, or there’s a limp attempt to associate THE medium for THE visual experience of the iPh, with car handles and AK-47 magazines, that’s absurd. I’ll take someone any day being critical (call it whining, if you like), but right, vs one with an opinion that has no basis. Both can be irritating, I acknowledge, but at least one is rational.
MDN needs to seriously get over the notch….after a few days I don’t even notice it anymore….quit yer bitchin’! and yes I watch Video on a large flat screen not a damn phone!!!
It is a delight…but iOS isn’t as polished as the hardware. Just came back from a trip. Took a lot of pic. Camera is amazing. Photos app, not so much. Kept crashing while editing pics. After five or so pics, I’d get crashes and/or the message that it couldn’t save the edits.
Fix the broken and disjointed vertical to horizontal app switching please.