One thing I'm curious about that nobody has seemed to mention yet. On the X through 12, the screen area (IIRC) was nearly perfect 18:9 minus the additional height for the notch and a symmetrical "virtual" pad on the bottom for the home bar - don't really know how else to describe it and hope that makes sense.
Anyway - 18:9 video content could be scaled to "full screen" such that it would come right up to the edge of the notch without impeding it, and the notch and homebar areas would pillarbox to black. On the 13 Pro, the notch is slightly deeper but the screen wasn't made any taller to account for it, so on 18:9 video the notch is just barely reaching into the video in full screen. On the 14 Pro, the Dynamic Island appears to jut down *much* further than even the 13 Pro notch into the usable screen area. Does this mean that there will be effectively no way to watch 18:9 video in landscape without notch intrusion (or having it be both pillarboxed and letterboxed, which I don't see any video apps really adopting...)
Something that's been big on my mind with this new design. Apple had treated the notch as "extra space" for a while and continues to do so on the new MacBooks - commit to a relatively standard aspect ratio and then add the notch space "above" it.
Anyway - 18:9 video content could be scaled to "full screen" such that it would come right up to the edge of the notch without impeding it, and the notch and homebar areas would pillarbox to black. On the 13 Pro, the notch is slightly deeper but the screen wasn't made any taller to account for it, so on 18:9 video the notch is just barely reaching into the video in full screen. On the 14 Pro, the Dynamic Island appears to jut down *much* further than even the 13 Pro notch into the usable screen area. Does this mean that there will be effectively no way to watch 18:9 video in landscape without notch intrusion (or having it be both pillarboxed and letterboxed, which I don't see any video apps really adopting...)
Something that's been big on my mind with this new design. Apple had treated the notch as "extra space" for a while and continues to do so on the new MacBooks - commit to a relatively standard aspect ratio and then add the notch space "above" it.