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Re:Android Creator’s Startup Essential Products Cuts About 3... by nradov on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @05:00PM (#18243774)
How was it design-wise ahead of the curve? All I see is yet another flat rectangle. With a notch. Ugh.

It's a shame that no one really tries to innovate on mobile device design any more in order to target niche markets. But perhaps the economics of mass production mean that's no longer a viable strategy.

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Re:Android Creator’s Startup Essential Products Cuts About 3... by Juan_Largearm on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @06:46PM (#18244479)
I miss all the different shapes. Nokia alone had so many different shapes in the early 2000s, different layouts, wide ranges of colour ect.

It's just rectangles now

https://www.flickr.com/photos/bryanthui/3881160306/

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Re:Android Creator’s Startup Essential Products Cuts About 3... by laughingpine on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @05:28PM (#18243988)
> With a notch

I believe it was one of (if not) the first with a notch.

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Re:Android Creator’s Startup Essential Products Cuts About 3... by EpicEng on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @05:31PM (#18244008)
The notch isn't really a design feature though... assuming you're being sarcastic.
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Re:Android Creator’s Startup Essential Products Cuts About 3... by polishTar on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @05:41PM (#18244073)
One man's notch is another's "edge to edge display". The cutout allows a higher display to body ratio, which some people value.
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Re:Android Creator’s Startup Essential Products Cuts About 3... by EpicEng on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @06:49PM (#18244500)
In other words, an unfortunate trade-off which exists due to a technical limitation. No one _wants_ a notch.
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Re:Android Creator’s Startup Essential Products Cuts About 3... by wlesieutre on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @05:27PM (#18243979)
And the software ecosystem. If the millions of 3rd party apps only support rectangles, it’s hard to do something different.
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Re:Android Creator’s Startup Essential Products Cuts About 3... by s73v3r_ on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @07:33PM (#18244745)
What is there to innovate on, design wise? I'm not saying there's nothing, but a lot of people bemoan the "lack of innovation" in mobile device design, but never say what they'd like to see, design wise.
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