Apple Reports Declining Profits and Slowing Growth Again

Re:Apple Reports Declining Profits and Slowing Growth Again by jakear on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @05:14PM (#20569243)

I’m even older than you apparently, but I just don’t see the attraction of the bezel-less design. I like bezels, they:

- let me hold the phone without blocking the screen

- act as a buffer for cracks: a smaller crack in the corner (the most common kind in my experience) won’t affect your experience.

- mean I don’t have to deal with notches or curved displays

Privilege check: I have large hands, I can single-handedly operate my iPhone 8 Plus with little difficulty. I could see bezel-less allowing greater ease of use for people not like me. If that overcomes the points above... so be it. I’m keeping my 8 Plus for now though.

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Re:Apple Reports Declining Profits and Slowing Growth Again by toasterlovin on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @09:04PM (#20570811)

Have you actually used a bezel-less device? They’ve sold hundreds of millions of them. I think it would be a scandal much like the laptop keyboards if their software for ignoring accidental input at the screen edge wasn’t essentially flawless.

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Re:Apple Reports Declining Profits and Slowing Growth Again by jakear on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @11:55PM (#20571603)

what gives you the impression that I believe their software for ignoring accidental input is flawed?

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Re:Apple Reports Declining Profits and Slowing Growth Again by mch82 on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @08:30PM (#20570641)

I agree, especially on iPad, a bezel is a necessary place to rest a thumb to hold the device

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