It will take a little more time for my brain and thumbs to completely connect but even now I would not go back to the larger iPhone 7 Plus size. The Japanese flick keyboard feels better than ever but the roman keyboard takes some thumb practice because my eye is still used to the wider iPhone 7 Plus black screen border area. Things are bigger and smaller at the same time, my brain sizes the outline as smaller, my thumbs size the keyboard as bigger. And just like Horace feels, watching a movie in full screen notch mode is not like watching a movie, it’s like holding a movie in your hands. I can only agree this is the direction Apple will go. From here on screens will be containers filling ever more mutable spaces. As Horace Dediu astutely points out in his Critical Path podcast, the square corner screen is dead. The screen is the fork writ large, buttonless, rounded edge to rounded edge. I have owned every iPhone since 3G but none of them went from teething to essential as fast as X. Reviewers are also right that iPhone X is alluring, beguiling, delightful and feels new like the very first time you got your hands on iPhone but with insanely faster speed and snap. Walt Mossberg knew it was the right time to retire. Reviewers are being forked as well: the older grayer geek squad will continue to write long form reviews, but as Apple already knows the younger YouTube generation are getting their opinions elsewhere. It separates all iPhones up to this point and all that comes hereafter. Reviewers are right that iPhone X is a fork in road.
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