A walkman costs like what, $20? A cell phone is hundreds. Do you, as a teacher really want thousands and thousands of dollars of students' electronics stashed in your drawer?
There are already too many problems with cars using roads as cars. Cars have monopolized public space in an unprecedented way that needs to be vastly scaled back.
So strange there's no notch in the main picture on the announcement. The top bezel does not look the same as on the product page either, even aside from the notch, it's too thick.
edit: the very last picture in the article also shows the wrong bezel. So strange...
If you fullscreen an app on a notched Mac it blacks out the area where the menubar would be, making it look like a top bezel the same thickness as a non-notched model. Of course, being an LCD, in person it will be more like a black notch and a very dark grey area either side of it.
The presence of the notch is offset by extra pixels added to the screen height.
Considering the way MacOS's top menu works, notches are a non-issue and you're ultimately getting more screen real estate than the non-notched variants.
I have a phone with a punch out camera. Usually I don't even think about it, but when it obscures the things what should be in that place on the screen...
I could tolerate it on a phone, although I'd rather just have a rectangular screen with a bezel for the camera. The whole phone UI can be designed to accommodate it, and it's exceedingly rare that I fullscreen anything on a phone. On a monitor, it would drive me insane; I'm regularly running things full-screen.
hm, interesting. Even better: potentially, instead of negotiating prices one on one, we could form some sort of large collective enterprise that was beholden to us so that it could negotiate prices on our behalf. I'd bet if there was such an group that represented a large enough % of us, we could get some pretty good deals. Now, what would we call it...
If musicians want to pull their music off of spotify in protest, they should. If spotify wants to keep Joe Rogan on their platform, they should. I think think spotify owes Joe a platform, whatever the case may be about his using the n-word or other issues. Cancel culture is mainstream now, not just a leftist symptom any more.
I personally think Rogan will be fine. He makes podcasts, he can host them anywhere he wants and his audience will follow. He'll probably come out ahead if spotify cancels him.
I don't think Spotify owes him anything and I don't doubt for a moment they would kick him to the curb if they were not in bed with him to the tune of a 100 million bucks. I'm sure if they did he would be fine though as I saw some tweet from some podcasting company offering him 100 million to come to them.
