AUGUST 2019 MACWORLD 35I
t’s time, folks. Time to admit Apple was
right to introduce the notch for the
iPhone X back in 2017. Oh, sure, it was
fun to ridicule the little black strip at
the time; to see the memes grumbling
about how Apple had lost its way and thetweets asserting that Steve Jobs Would
Never Have Done This (go.macworld.com/
nver). But just 21 months later, we’re
already seeing articles discussing which
phones don’t have notches. Even Apple’s
most direct rivals have embraced theIMAGE: APPLEThe iPhone X notch: It’s time for
haters to apologize
Barely two years later, notches are everywhere—and Apple paved the way for them.
BY LEIF JOHNSONiOSCENTRAL
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