[null0pointer]

Have you even used the iPhone X? Myself and every person I've talked to do not even notice the notch after a short period of use. And I was initially very skeptical of the notch too. A better mental model is that the iPhone has 2 additional 'ears' of usable screen.

Compare this to the S8 which not only has physical bezels on top and bottom, but also software status bar at the top and software home bar at the bottom cutting further into usable screen space.

Not to mention Apple have nailed the gesture based UX. It feels totally natural and is a pleasure to use. Whereas any time I have to use an android phone it feels clunky and poorly executed.

Call me a fanboy, whatever. But I have never found the same quality experience on an android phone that I get with my iPhone.

[sundvor]

I've seen it a fair bit and the more I see it, the less I like it. I have also read the web design guidelines for how to avoid putting important content in the dead zones, and (AYFKM) is my one and only response.

The bottom bar is switchable on the S8, and the top one disappears when it needs to. The physical bezels are tiny, on the sides there are none; the S8+ is not lacking for (vertical) real estate.