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MATT BOLTON thinks that the iPhone’s new “Dynamic Island” is a total gimmick… and also Apple’s best bit of design in years
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iPHONE’S NOTCH has never been a problem for me. I was never desperate for Apple to follow the designs from Samsung (and the like), who replaced a notch with a camera pill (where the cut–out for the front camera is surrounded by screen), because it doesn’t make any practical difference. You can’t use those pixels of screen you’re adding back in, because anything you show there will be interrupted by the camera cut–out. As far as I was concerned, the notch might as well stay put until under–screen cameras become good enough.