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Re:No Cutting Corners on the iPhone X by wvenable on Thursday February 01, 2018 @08:41PM (#16287684)
If you look at iPhone iconography -- it's always been basically a rounded rectangle with a circle and square for the home button. Easily identifiable as an iPhone with just 3 shapes. With the home button gone, the notch is used to distinctively represent an iPhone.

Perhaps the whole thing is purposely form over function.

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Re:No Cutting Corners on the iPhone X by twothamendment on Friday February 02, 2018 @10:38AM (#16291335)
Form over function? I think you nailed it. Would it be less expensive to manufacture using circles? Would sales decrease if they had? Would anyone really notice?

I wonder how many man-hours were spent debating the shape of the corners.

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Re:No Cutting Corners on the iPhone X by kurthr on Thursday February 01, 2018 @09:18PM (#16287873)
Don't believe that their competitors will have notch-less phones... they will copy slavishly!

Count on it (unless they have a design latent in the notch).

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Re:No Cutting Corners on the iPhone X by kurthr on Saturday February 03, 2018 @02:35PM (#16299124)
Yep, no patent on the notch.

http://bgr.com/2018/02/01/iphone-x-review-android-copy-desig...

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