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Not so edgy: iPhone X with a full hardware bezel (left), faux software bezel (center), and the horns (right).
”The display really is edge-to-rounded-edge and manages to run completely across the glass and into the stainless steel band around the sides. That is, except for the big bite Apple took out of it at the top. The look has been popularly referred to as a "notch" or, internally and casually, as "forehead" and "ears". For some, it was and will forever be the "horns" (as in?).
In a perfect world, I'm sure Apple would have loved to have been able to create a truly edge-to-edge display, top and bottom. Since the TrueDepth camera system can't currently be hidden beneath the panel, the company was left with two choices: Give up on edge-to-edge altogether and run the TrueDepth camera module all the way across the top, or keep edge-to-edge at the rounded corners and let the TrueDepth camera system bite into the top. Apple chose the latter. And then spent significant time and effort engineering it.
It would have been much, much easier to go with a full bezel on top, either with actual atoms or by filling them in with black colored pixels.
But both of those choices would have made iPhone X look like every other big screen display on the market. And it would have made for a more distracting blob on the side of the screen when using it for augmented reality (AR).
So, Apple chose to showcase the horns. To own them. To spend all that silicon and display budget to carve, curve, and fill them, and make them the most visually distinct design element of iPhone X. So distinct that, with the Home button gone, the horns are now the most immediately recognizable thing about iPhone X. The thing that has replaced the Home button in icons.
It's easy to disagree with that choice. At first glance, the horns look awkward and distracting. At second and third glance as well. Like a spot in the corner of your eye or a splinter in your mind.
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Subjectively, a lot of people at Apple who've been using iPhone X for an extended period of time seem to genuinely love the horns. But do they love them because they're truly great or simply because they're distinctively Apple? A lot of people on Twitter who have never used iPhone X seem not to. But do they not love them because they're bad or simply because they're unlike anything that's come before?
After having spent some time with the horns, I'm already beginning to forget about them. I can instantly see them if I look for them, of course. And on a white screen like web pages, they stick out more than on more color-filled and darker screens. in landscape it looks even odder at first, but I end up putting my thumb over the camera module anyway, so it's always at least partially obscured.
I'd still rather the horns disappear but only when and if Apple can go truly edge to edge. And I'm not sure how long that will take.
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Will the horns age better? For now, they're a curious experiment in expansive display and peripheral data presentation. How they're received by millions of customers will determine if their distinctiveness is quickly rolled back or if it becomes truly iconic.
My strong hunch is the latter.”
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