Yeah Apps with light coloured backgrounds will look like that.
Many Apps with a black background (Spotify) appear to have a straight (traditional) top bezel, hiding the notch.
& with the proposed 'dark mode' for IOS, more Apps may be able to have their backgrounds switched to black, so the notch becomes even less conspicuous.
Speaking of dark mode, don't the Samsung's have it? & if you were able to alter the colour scheme to black & preferred that over the light scheme, would that maybe bring you around to a notch on the Galaxy, since it'll hide the notch in more Apps?
If I can’t see it, sure, there’s no longer a logical basis for objecting to a notch solely on the basis of aesthetics.
What I would object to is the removal of a fingerprint scanner and for face and iris scanning to become the sole means of biometric authentication, thus necessitating a notchlike accommodation for the light emitters, regardless of whether such an apparatus can be hidden from view.
Opthamologists have not yet giving their unreserved blessings on the safety of these beams of light going into our eyes several times a day. There simply is insufficient data. I think Apple’s overthrow of fingerprint scanning and consignment of it to the scrap heap is premature until we know with absolute certainty that all implementations of laser light projectors by all manufacturers are safe. Apple is pretty good about exercising an abundance of caution in what they implement, but they aren’t infallible. Their pwm OLED displays have induced severe migraines among forum members. A couple of people ended up in the ER.
Is there an established testing and certification methodology for this particular use case of lasers in place? I know there’s a rating classification system for commercial laser use that is being streched to apply here, but is that a wise application of existing standards? The LEDs are technically lasers, according to what I’ve read. I know they’re not the same type of lasers that make the dots my cats chase. But they are a class of laser.
My personal experience with the light emitted by the Samsung iris scanner has been extremely painful and concerning. I’m not alone in that.
Sorry for the long digression into laser safety, but the reason for the digression is that the notch is required to House this technology. It is the only biometric authentication system Apple currently endorses. They have declared it “the future”, thus simultaneously relegating safe and proven alternatives to the past. Many of their most ardent fans on this forum have told the rest of us holdouts we are holding onto the the past and doing so is futile.
We have seen from the abrupt and unnecessary removal of the headphone jack by Android manufacturers, even by Google, that when Apple makes such declarations, the rest of the industry follows, no matter how painful and inconvenient the results are for customers.
It’s very hard not to resent the fact that my entire experience of the smartphone can be so thoroughly dictated by one single company that lately is in the habit of making asinine decisions and proclaiming them “the future” and implementing them prematurely and awkwardly. I find this often makes the present very annoying. Cough cough...dongles...
