“I watched it once. I watched it twice,” Chris Matyszczyk writes for ZDNet. “I enlarged the screen on my laptop. And then, during a rousing NFL game between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Pittsburgh Steelers, it was on my relatively big LG TV screen.”
“The music was sultry, the phones looked gorgeous. Apple was playing with illusion as you initially think the phones are the same size, then they’re magically not,” Matyszczyk writes. “Somehow, though, I felt an odd feeling just below my throat. This was Apple’s first ad for the iPhone XS and the XS Max, and I couldn’t see the most iconic element… What bothered me is that I couldn’t see the notch. Both the XS and the XS Max still have it.”
MacDailyNews Take: Ah, the inelegant kludge.
“The camera-housing element, initially decried as being the ugliest thing Apple had created since, oh, its pursuit of the man who found an iPhone 4 prototype in a bar, was being artfully concealed,” Matyszczyk writes. “With this iPhone XS ad, both the screens on the phones have a lovely image that happens to include darkness over the notch area. This is to create the illusion — again — that these phones really do have a gloriously full screen.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Listen, it’s an inelegant kludge. Apple knows it (see how it’s not there, tellingly, when you take a screenshot?), we know it, anybody with eyes and a smidge more taste than a Microsoft employee knows it. It makes perfect sense not to call any more attention to the notch (really, it’s a black flap occluding a noticeable portion of your display at all times) than is absolutely necessary.
wow.. fud and bashing season has officially started…
Give it a break… they are gorgeous phones…
They really have to scrape the bottom of the barrel to complain.
Yeah… what he said! GIVE IT A BREAK!
And it’s not even a notch, it’s two little extra screens that poke up like ears! Given the choice of that area being dark and unusable and usable pixels, I’ll choose usable pixels every day 🙂
What this we hear, lower preorders for iphone XS models than Iphone X, lowered stocks! The backlash against applies greed is just beginning. Actually it has already begun. Witness verizon’s buy one get 2nd at $700 off. Last time i check this desperation in phone promotion was reserved for samdung phones.
Hey is that you? You back. I was worried. Nice to see you again.
Don’t be fooled by this impostor, Road Warrior.
Don’t be fooled by an impostor, Road Warrior.
Imposter is much too cheery. Give ’em a few days and if not a bit cantankerous, coat-tails are being ridden.
😎It feels good to be missed thank you.
Man, you can’t even say nice things without getting downvoted!
Nice to see MDN come around, I suppose. It would be better, I think if we could all take a breath and speak honestly about the warts on all recent Apple products/offerings instead of papering over them in the interest of profit for Apple & shareholders.
MDN: When you figure out a way to defy physics, please give Apple a call.
TXUser would hate it, too big for their thumb.
Cry me a river…
Sheesh people.