Your article speculates about why Apple doesn’t hide the notch, but doesn’t address why it’s there in the first place.
It’s there to have a place to house the various front facing sensors/emitters while sharing verticals space with usable screen area.
Once you decide to do that you have to answer the question of how to deal with the border line between the two.
Obviously, you don’t want something ugly.
(1) hide the border. This means anything and everything displayed on-screen next to the notch has to be on a black background.
(2) create a non-ugly border and let it show.
Perhaps the decision to go with (2) was influenced by branding considerations but it’s a secondary decision, not the “only purpose. And (1) isn’t exactly a great option, regardless.
I didn’t agree much of what you had to say, but it was your opinion to express and that’s fine. Did you really have to break down and call people “tool-bags” at the end though? I can promise you it only prevents whatever point you might have from being heard.
If you have to tell people that you’re intelligent while denigrating them, it says far more about the fragility of your ego, your anger and frustration than anything else. It might be youth, or it might be struggles with socialization, but if you want to communicate with other intelligent people without being picked out as angry and insecure, your approach could use some refining.
It’s there to have a place to house the various front facing sensors/emitters while sharing verticals space with usable screen area.
Once you decide to do that you have to answer the question of how to deal with the border line between the two.
Obviously, you don’t want something ugly.
(1) hide the border. This means anything and everything displayed on-screen next to the notch has to be on a black background.
(2) create a non-ugly border and let it show.
Perhaps the decision to go with (2) was influenced by branding considerations but it’s a secondary decision, not the “only purpose. And (1) isn’t exactly a great option, regardless.