{"id":8623,"date":"2021-10-27T23:54:07","date_gmt":"2021-10-27T23:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/TheNextWeb=1371309"},"modified":"2021-10-27T23:54:07","modified_gmt":"2021-10-27T23:54:07","slug":"surprise-the-macbook-pros-notch-is-a-software-mess-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/?p=8623","title":{"rendered":"Surprise! The MacBook Pro\u2019s notch is a software mess too"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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We\u2019ve already devoted too<\/a>many<\/a>words<\/a> to the new 14 and 16-inch MacBook Pro\u2018s notch, yet it continues to haunt us. After accepting the reality of the unnecessarily large camera cutout, we were soothed by the confidence that Apple would at least make sure macOS and its apps properly dealt with the notch. This is Apple we\u2019re talking about, and Apple doesn\u2019t make design mistakes like that, after all.<\/p>\n

Yeah, about that\u2026<\/p>\n

One of the biggest questions people had about the Notch\u2122\ufe0f was how macOS would actually handle the odd screen cutout. Would the macOS simply ignore the notch, and have the cursor slide behind it, or would you be forced to move the cursor around<\/em> it? Would long lists of menu items \u2018jump\u2019 over the notch, or would they be obscured by it?<\/p>\n

As it turns out, the answer is \u201call of the above.\u201d The notch appears to be like a black hole, causing all sorts of strange phenomena to happen as you approach its event horizon.<\/p>\n

YouTuber Quinn Nelson<\/a> of Snazzy Labs<\/a> highlights the issues succinctly. Take this example when using a tool like iStat Menus \u2014 it simply gets obscured by the notch:<\/p>\n

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WTF HAHAHAHA HOW IS THIS SHIPPABLE? WHAT IS THIS?! pic.twitter.com\/epse3Cv3xF<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Quinn Nelson (@SnazzyQ) October 26, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Yikes. For its part, the folks behind iStat Menus say they are using a standard NSStatusItems<\/a> implementation, so it doesn\u2019t seem they are doing anything particularly weird to cause this behavior.<\/p>\n

In a second tweet<\/a>, Nelson demonstrates more strange behavior, such as the inconsistency of the notch in different apps.<\/p>\n

On the desktop, your mouse simply slides behind the Notch. In DaVinci Resolve, the mouse sometimes instantly jumps across the notch. Other times, you\u2019re forced to maneuver around<\/em> it. And when using an app like Resolve, which has a ton of menu options, the lack of available space means your status icons will be obscured. Among other issues:<\/p>\n

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WHO DESIGNED THIS?! \ud83d\ude02 pic.twitter.com\/ADVqmfdqV2<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Quinn Nelson (@SnazzyQ) October 26, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

But wait, there\u2019s more! In some situations, your mouse can even get \u2018stuck\u2019 behind the notch:<\/p>\n

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PSA you can literally get the curser stuck behind the notch pic.twitter.com\/jhVaGFBWDb<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Ian Zelbo (@RendersbyIan) October 26, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And though the default behavior is to hide the notch in full-screen apps, even some regular apps are causing the entire display to \u2018shrink\u2019 in an attempt to ignore the notch:<\/p>\n

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Iterm scares the notch on my new Mac away. Start iterm it goes away. Quit iterm it comes back. pic.twitter.com\/b1KcxPeSUR<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Bryan Liles (@bryanl) October 26, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Note that the display isn\u2019t just shrinking vertically, but also horizontally<\/em>, making some of that beautiful new real estate go completely to waste.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not gonna lie, as a Windows guy, I\u2019m experiencing a little schadenfreude. This is the type of thing I\u2019d expect to happen on a third-party Windows laptop with a wacky design, not to an Apple product with its reputation of seamless integration of hardware and software.<\/p>\n

(Then again, Apple is also the company that made a mouse that you can\u2019t use while charging<\/a>, so perhaps I set my expectations too high.)<\/p>\n

Based on the complaints about the notch so far, it seems that developers will have to update their apps to properly deal with the cutout. But I find it extremely weird that Apple didn\u2019t build in behavior at the OS level to prevent such inconsistent and clunky behavior. Why not make every app simply wrap its items around the notch? Why doesn\u2019t macOS have a way of highlighting when your cursor is behind the cutout? Why not make extra menu items scrollable or shrink the text?<\/p>\n

It\u2019s only a matter of time until most of these issues get resolved, but for all the power behind the new MacBook Pros, it\u2019s a little disappointing that Apple would launch them with such a lack of polish.<\/p>\n

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