iPhone X is the notch gonna stay?

[boltjames]

You better rethink that statement

LOL. Why? Apple just overtook Samsung as the biggest supplier of smartphones in the world.

Those who are flipping are going from Android to Apple, trust me. I don’t know a single executive in my company or the companies we do business with who uses Android. It’s the phone you get rid of when you turn 25.

 

[Ffosse]

The notch is the one thing that gives the X its eldritch appeal; I wouldn't change it for anything.

 

[jav6454]

LOL. Why? Apple just overtook Samsung as the biggest supplier of smartphones in the world.

Those who are flipping are going from Android to Apple, trust me. I don’t know a single executive in my company or the companies we do business with who uses Android. It’s the phone you get rid of when you turn 25.

For what quarter? For just one of those quarters? Samsung still has a bigger install base than Apple.

 

[boltjames]

For what quarter? For just one of those quarters? Samsung still has a bigger install base than Apple.

Last quarter. It was part of Apple's press release.

No one cares about Samsung or Android in these parts. This is an Apple forum.

 

[jav6454]

Last quarter. It was part of Apple's press release.

No one cares about Samsung or Android in these parts. This is an Apple forum.

One quarter? Haha! Good one. Just one quarter does not represent a trend. A trend is set after at least 3 quarters. Please stop being blind. Go look in the past. Apple always has that one good quarter and then returns to being 2nd or third.

 

[boltjames]

One quarter? Haha! Good one. Just one quarter does not represent a trend. A trend is set after at least 3 quarters. Please stop being blind. Go look in the past. Apple always has that one good quarter and then returns to being 2nd or third.

I could care less. This petty Apple vs. Samsung nonsense is beneath me. I'm an Apple man. I have an iPhone X. What the Ramen crowd does with it's cheap iPhone knock-offs means nothing to me.
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Stop being such a fan boy. You know you can like both, right?

Hey, I remember those years when I drove Honda's. But that was then and this is now, I wouldn't touch a Honda if it was the last Uber in town.

 

[jav6454]

I could care less. This petty Apple vs. Samsung nonsense is beneath me. I'm an Apple man. I have an iPhone X. What the Ramen crowd does with it's cheap iPhone knock-offs means nothing to me.

You are no Apple man, you are a fanboy who obvious thinks everything Apple makes is perfect and "the golden standard". Guess what? Many of their products have been flops, and not many of their products are industry standards.

Also, those cheap knockoffs are what's keeping Apple on their toes. Furthermore, the iPhone you now enjoy wasn't made that way by Apple. You are missing a whole different group of people in your picture.

 

[Deeds500]

I like the notch. Please stop trying to convince me I don't.

But you would like it more if there was no notch.

 

[Ffosse]

But you would like it more if there was no notch.

I know I wouldn't; I like the notch too much.

 

[boltjames]

But you would like it more if there was no notch.

No, I wouldn't.

As the first universally accepted status symbol in the smartphone universe, the iPhone X needed something to visually set it apart from the riff-raff out there. If it went edge-to-edge, it would look like all those cheap Android phones that unwashed gamer high school students are seen with. If it had the home button, forehead, and chin, it would look like all those old and cheap used iPhones bought off of Craigslist for $49 that day laborers are seen with.

We don't care if it is a notch, a vertical camera, or a pink pierced nipple ring, the iPhone X needed something visually different and noticeable to passers-by in order to justify it's $1,200 price. Without the notch we're using a ho-hum iPhone that no one would notice and could be as old as 2012. With the notch, we're celebrities, I'm Tom Cruise, people lean over my shoulder on a train to take a look, people strike up idle conversation with me at the airport gate.

Once you get past the first month and the afterglow of the new technology, the X becomes just-a-phone. But the notch is what keeps it spicy, it's what makes the X keep giving its owners exciting vibes each week. The attention it draws is fantastic, like having a Ferrari in your pocket.

 

[The-Real-Deal82]

No, I wouldn't.

As the first universally accepted status symbol in the smartphone universe, the iPhone X needed something to visually set it apart from the riff-raff out there. If it went edge-to-edge, it would look like all those cheap Android phones that unwashed gamer high school students are seen with. If it had the home button, forehead, and chin, it would look like all those old and cheap used iPhones bought off of Craigslist for $49 that day laborers are seen with.

We don't care if it is a notch, a vertical camera, or a pink pierced nipple ring, the iPhone X needed something visually different and noticeable to passers-by in order to justify it's $1,200 price. Without the notch we're using a ho-hum iPhone that no one would notice and could be as old as 2012. With the notch, we're celebrities, I'm Tom Cruise, people lean over my shoulder on a train to take a look, people strike up idle conversation with me at the airport gate.

Once you get past the first month and the afterglow of the new technology, the X becomes just-a-phone. But the notch is what keeps it spicy, it's what makes the X keep giving its owners exciting vibes each week. The attention it draws is fantastic, like having a Ferrari in your pocket.

One minute you claim not to be an ‘elitist’ or in your own words ‘subscribe to status symbolism’ and then every few posts you rant about how you are rich and above everybody because of your luxury possessions lol. Which is it?

Surely if something is ‘universally accepted as a status symbol’ it actually needs to be considered that by more than a couple of people? You’ve been challenged repeatedly on this for months now by dozens of people and it seems like you say it to reassure yourself more than anything else. I’ll say it again but most of your claims are so exaggerated they start to feel completely unbelievable.

 

[bruinsrme]

No, I wouldn't.

As the first universally accepted status symbol in the smartphone universe, the iPhone X needed something to visually set it apart from the riff-raff out there. If it went edge-to-edge, it would look like all those cheap Android phones that unwashed gamer high school students are seen with. If it had the home button, forehead, and chin, it would look like all those old and cheap used iPhones bought off of Craigslist for $49 that day laborers are seen with.

We don't care if it is a notch, a vertical camera, or a pink pierced nipple ring, the iPhone X needed something visually different and noticeable to passers-by in order to justify it's $1,200 price. Without the notch we're using a ho-hum iPhone that no one would notice and could be as old as 2012. With the notch, we're celebrities, I'm Tom Cruise, people lean over my shoulder on a train to take a look, people strike up idle conversation with me at the airport gate.

Once you get past the first month and the afterglow of the new technology, the X becomes just-a-phone. But the notch is what keeps it spicy, it's what makes the X keep giving its owners exciting vibes each week. The attention it draws is fantastic, like having a Ferrari in your pocket.

Wait I draw the line at pink pierced nipple rings. Dark red is as close to pink as I will go.

 

[Ffosse]

No, I wouldn't.

As the first universally accepted status symbol in the smartphone universe, the iPhone X needed something to visually set it apart from the riff-raff out there. If it went edge-to-edge, it would look like all those cheap Android phones that unwashed gamer high school students are seen with. If it had the home button, forehead, and chin, it would look like all those old and cheap used iPhones bought off of Craigslist for $49 that day laborers are seen with.

We don't care if it is a notch, a vertical camera, or a pink pierced nipple ring, the iPhone X needed something visually different and noticeable to passers-by in order to justify it's $1,200 price. Without the notch we're using a ho-hum iPhone that no one would notice and could be as old as 2012. With the notch, we're celebrities, I'm Tom Cruise, people lean over my shoulder on a train to take a look, people strike up idle conversation with me at the airport gate.

Once you get past the first month and the afterglow of the new technology, the X becomes just-a-phone. But the notch is what keeps it spicy, it's what makes the X keep giving its owners exciting vibes each week. The attention it draws is fantastic, like having a Ferrari in your pocket.

I couldn't agree more, it does make the device that tad more enchanting.

 

[The-Real-Deal82]

I couldn't agree more, it does make the device that tad more enchanting.

Do you look down on people who don’t have an iPhone X and refer to them as ‘craigslist riff raff’ too then? That post you couldn’t agree more with is littered with insulting suggestions and you’ve always seemed very reasonable to me.

 

[craigio85]

With the notch, we're celebrities, I'm Tom Cruise, people lean over my shoulder on a train to take a look

Where were you going on a train? I thought you were a multimillionaire? And if you’re travelling in rich class, surely all the other people there with you have their prestige iPhone X already, so why would they want to look at yours?

 

[Ffosse]

Do you look down on people who don’t have an iPhone X and refer to them as ‘craigslist riff raff’ too then? That post you couldn’t agree more with is littered with insulting suggestions and you’ve always seemed very reasonable to me.

The notch just defines the X, I don't look down on people with any type of phone at all...I just know that for for me I like the notch.

 

[The-Real-Deal82]

The notch just defines the X, I don't look down on people with any type of phone at all...I just know that for for me I like the notch.

I was confused when you quoted an entire post full of class driven insults and agreed with it. What you say here is reasonable and quite normal I’d say.

 

[raqball]

I was confused when you quoted an entire post full of class driven insults and agreed with it.

Some of what he says is true but it gets lost in his condescending and smug remarks. I don't mind it if he feels the need to impress others via possessions as the world is full of people like that. The world is also full of millionaires who are just the opposite.

off-topic:

Case in point: I was moving out of state several years back and have a friend who is a Realtor. He called me one day and said he has a cash buyer for my house. He told me to not judge the buyer when he came to look at the house (I was still living in it at the time) because although the guy does not look it, he is a multi millionaire whom he had sold other houses to in the past. Sure enough the guy arrived wearing old sweatpants and in an older Ford Ranger truck. Had I not already been told I would have thought it was some kind of a scam. The guy looked like he was worth $1.47. One month later the house sale closed as a cash purchase.

Anyways, I drive an Audi A3. To some that might be a luxury car and to others it might be equivalent to a Yugo. I don't care how others view my possession because the only person they matter to is me. I like my car and couldn't care less if someone views it a junker...

/off-topic

Keeping up with the Joneses is a real thing to some. If the Joneses kids all have iPhone X's, including the toddler, then your kids better have them too.. Not a life I'd want to live but to each their own..

 

[HeadphoneAddict]

No, I wouldn't.

As the first universally accepted status symbol in the smartphone universe, the iPhone X needed something to visually set it apart from the riff-raff out there. If it went edge-to-edge, it would look like all those cheap Android phones that unwashed gamer high school students are seen with. If it had the home button, forehead, and chin, it would look like all those old and cheap used iPhones bought off of Craigslist for $49 that day laborers are seen with.

We don't care if it is a notch, a vertical camera, or a pink pierced nipple ring, the iPhone X needed something visually different and noticeable to passers-by in order to justify it's $1,200 price. Without the notch we're using a ho-hum iPhone that no one would notice and could be as old as 2012. With the notch, we're celebrities, I'm Tom Cruise, people lean over my shoulder on a train to take a look, people strike up idle conversation with me at the airport gate.

Once you get past the first month and the afterglow of the new technology, the X becomes just-a-phone. But the notch is what keeps it spicy, it's what makes the X keep giving its owners exciting vibes each week. The attention it draws is fantastic, like having a Ferrari in your pocket.

I ASSURE YOU THAT NOBODY NOTICES MY IPHONE X. They're looking at my Titanium Omega Planet Ocean Chronograph, Omega Grey Side of the Moon, or my Rolex GMT II Blue/Noir with ceramic bezel. No vacation home here, wife beats me with my trophies.

 

[boltjames]

I ASSURE YOU THAT NOBODY NOTICES MY IPHONE X. They're looking at my Titanium Omega Planet Ocean Chronograph, Omega Grey Side of the Moon, or my Rolex GMT II Blue/Noir with ceramic bezel. No vacation home here, wife beats me with my trophies.

Love your watch collection. People do notice my 116500, I assure you of that. LOL the wife beating.

 

[HeadphoneAddict]

Love your watch collection. People do notice my 116500, I assure you of that. LOL the wife beating.

I just sold my 16710 Monday

 

[Ffosse]

I like watches too - but a phone is something which will eventually break and be of no use, watches can last for years.

Call me weird, but I simply like the notch and I like when it is lit in those apps which use it (even if it's simple white pixels on and not showing any info.

 

[oplix]

lol no they are already trying to get rid of it/minimize it

 

[raqball]

lol no they are already trying to get rid of it/minimize it

Have any credible information to back this up? All indications are they will be going all in on the notch come Sept 2018 releases..

 

[andyw715]

Notch is no biggie

My car's been rocking one for almost 10 years!