> Literally the only purpose of the notch is to provide space for the god-dammed technology in the phone.
No, it's not. It's either for differentiation or to be able to (like the Essential PH-1 before it) claim an “edge to edge” screen (even though in Apple's case this excludes a big part of the top edge), but it's not to make room for the “technology”, which obviously would fit just fine with a rectangular screen and a top bezel.
The shape of technology is more important than how much room it takes up. There's a reason why we all have rectangular phones and not round, triangle or square ones!
Your argument that "the technology [must not] take up more room than needed" is simply false. I can point to plenty of Apple products where the technology was fit into a bigger box than needed so that the box didn't look misshapen.
That sounds like both cases are a function of both aesthetics and the tech. I’m looking at my iPhone SE, and I’d kill for a notch in a bigger screen, that maintained the overall form factor of the existing phone. Right now about two finger-widths, one each above and below the screen, just exist to hold the home button and sensors. It seems like a marked improvement to enlarge the screen, and add a notch at the top.
Maybe this is one of those things that seems awkward until you make some direct comparisons with the alternatives.
Incorrect. I just told you what the only purpose of it is and gave you a whole article about it.
Somehow we’ve had sensing instruments facing us for years now without notches. And yet, here we are. It’s funny how Apple can get everybody talking about their stuff isn’t it?
