People with a fear of small holes have claimed the design of Apple’s iPhone 11 Pro is triggering their phobia… And hundreds of smartphone users now claim the new design has triggered their “trypophobia”, an aversion to the sight of clusters of small holes.
Vision scientist Dr Geoff Cole, at the University of Essex, was part of the first full scientific study of trypophobia, working with his colleague, Prof Arnold Wilkins. “We have all got it, it’s just a matter of degree,” Dr Cole told BBC News earlier this year. The response to seeing small holes can be very extreme, their study suggests. “It can be quite disabling,” Prof Wilkins added.
MacDailyNews Take: Oh, for Jobs’ sake! Imagine these poor souls having to watch this on their iPhone 11 Pros:
Is the from the Onion?
Triggered again. Camille Paglia’s recent article is so true… Maybe there will be Apple protests to stop their heartless and inconsiderate design.
Life is tough, tougher if you make it that way.
This is ridiculous. If you have trypophobia, don’t buy a cell phone which makes you anxious when you look at the camera, whether it is an iPhone or some other model.
More, for those who care to read about this condition… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trypophobia
Oh please!. Then what is the Mac Pro going to do to those users? Those are the weirdest-looking holes-in-holes I’ve ever seen. People like that are likely very rare, indeed. Anyway, too bad for them.
Are these people also terrified of cheese graters? Do they break out in hives at colanders? Do their throats swell up at the sight of a screen door? Cold sweats when they catch sight of the kitchen sink drain or a shower head?
Some of these folks apparently get wigged out at the thought of crumpets in their house. No, I’m not making this up.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-48058863
I hope you never suffer a disabling condition so people can laugh at you.
Go virtue signal somewhere else
Go virtue signal somewhere else. Perhaps around other liberal jackholes and you can have a circle jerk over who can be the most offended over nonsense
How about going back to your Klavern where you and the other bigots can poke fun at whoever you like. Mocking people with disabilities is simply unacceptable among Americans who graduated from junior high. In some contexts, it is illegal even in the US. In most other developed countries, it would be criminal hate speech.
Projecting again and falsely passing knee jerk judgement. News to me asking questions trying to understand is insensitive and mocking. Only in the liberal court of opinion where you even ask a question you are instantly considered racist and condescending. Take it elsewhere, pal. The American people are sick of FALSE accusations from libtards…
I see the error of my ways. Asking a question that appears to paint people with a rare, but real, psychological disability as weirdos unworthy of human respect isn’t at all the same thing as just coming out and saying it. So you wouldn’t be offended if I just asked a question about your mother’s sexual behavior, would you?
I’m guessing that you would see it as highly offensive, just like most Americans were revolted when He Who Shall Not Be Named mocked a disabled reporter. Because the condition is rare, there isn’t anything Apple can reasonably do about the possibility that their cameras might trigger trypophobia, just as folks with Hello Kitty merchandise can’t help triggering ailurophobia. That doesn’t justify poking fun at people with those disabilities.
Honestly, the kind of person who would mock the disabled would probably use racial slurs like “Pocahontas” and invite the Taliban to celebrate the week of 9/11 at Camp David. Some people just lack normal human empathy.
You never admit when you are wrong. You spin it into some tedious alternative deflection. The true modus operandi of smug elitist know it all liberals. Yes, go virtue signal somewhere else and take your Republican Party cheap shop putdowns with you…
I am getting over my Helvetica font phobia.
No, we are laughing at you and your ridiculous posts Mr. High and Mighty…
I’m allergic to stupidity.
Actually, I’ll bet Jony Ive is happy he has left Apple, and doesn’t have to deal with the fallout from the design of the iPhone 11. I think that Jobs would be rolling over in his grave looking at what the camera lens design has morphed in to — he’d probably have bounced the first mockup off the wall in disgust. Bad design, all the way around in my estimation.
Embrace the bump!
Here we go.. A bunch of idiots creating ‘holesgate’ on the obvious hopes of milking some free money from a great company… 🙄
MY GOD, DON”T LOOK AT THE SPEAKER GRILL ON ANY SMARTPHONE! ALL THE SMALL HOLES!!!!!
lol
Glad they got rid of the headphone jack next to the lightening port and speaker holes, these people must’ve been catatonic.
Seriously…? 🙄 The new Mac Pro must give have these people cowering 😱
https://www.reddit.com/r/trypophobia/
Imagine the potential of this. Trump’s wall can have small holes which will prevent migrants from approaching. The savings alone from recycling all the material removed will be phenomenal. The wall in fact may pay for itself.
Are these poor people able to wipe their own butt? 💩🙄
You can mock as much as you like it’s a factor of the brain that varies between individuals. In the end it’s generally of little concern but scientists raising the issue is quite educational… which is more than you can say about Cook’s endless and meaningless hyperbole over products.
Good news for me to add more holes since I have phobia of smooth surfaces
Unlike many of the posters on this site I don’t know enough about the condition to make a definitive analysis so I guess we’ll see how it pans out in sales of this particular iPhone.
Quote: Vision scientist Dr Geoff Cole, at the University of Essex, was part of the first full scientific study of trypophobia, working with his colleague, Prof Arnold Wilkins. “We have all got it, it’s just a matter of degree,” Dr Cole told BBC News earlier this year.
Really? Well, my degree of this ailment is zero, Dr. Cole. I don’t doubt that it exists, but it isn’t an epidemic. I actually think that clusters of tiny holes are cool.
I’m recommending these folks not examine their heads too closely. Including the court jester who penned this silly article.