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by zamadatix 1379 days ago
Funnily I thought the exact opposite when I saw it. To me it seemed like making the space a dynamically laid out notification blob area was a great way to handle upcoming cutout shape changes. E.g. maybe the iPhone 16 moves the camera behind the screen and then that hole punch becomes just another slot to arrange notification elements. This leaves largely the same UI model to code against (to Apple and developers) among multiple phones which need to be supported for 5+ years but have different hardware layouts.