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Why Dynamic Island SHOULDN’T be on Macs

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  2. Portable Macs get dynamic island: iPhone, iPad, Laptops

    Desktops Macs are normal thank heavens: Mac Mini, Studio, Pro

    I only tolerate the island on my iPhone…never touching a MBP now, destop only for me now.

  9. Bro idc what anyone says …..I love the dynamic island and you don’t really realise how much You have use it until you go back to your older phones and realise it lol

  11. The dynamic island is really just a way of modernising the look of the iPhone without copy/pasting an Android phone but still retaining a front camera and FaceID. It’s very clever but is quite annoying when not doing dynamic stuff. I don’t see the need on a MacBook and it probably wasn’t that necessary to go there with a notch either!

  12. I personally think the Mac is overdue for a dramatic redesign the current redesign is nice but it’s more of a revision switching back to traditional style ports because of the i/o limitations of apple silicon im the First generation apple and intel no longer working together so apple moving away from thunderbolt 3 slowly

    I believe the macbook need to be closer in design to the Magic Keyboard but in a non two device form factor

  16. If you work on your laptop a lot, would you want it to be OLED?? You could have burn-in problems in the future. But in theory, if they do decide to put old lady in the MacBooks, I want them to make a deal with Samsung to apply QD-OLED

  28. The could just add a native option to make the whole menu bar black. I don't have the notch (Mac Mini with external monitor) but I'm using the TopNotch app just to have a black menu bar. Looks much cleaner.

  29. I think a variation of it where a dynamic menu bar can grow out of the notch could work, if there has to be a notch. The current menu bar is getting cramped.

  33. I agree and disagree. I agree that just copy pasting the Dynamic Island to the Macbook notch is a mistake. BUT i think if they completely retooled the notch/toolbar to be a "Dynamic Toolbar" that is specific to the Mac/MacOS. Then i think that makes total sense. But i think it would make more sense if it's more like a heightened version of how Mac OS already handles full screen mode apps where the app moves up and takes up the toolbar area, and the actual toolbar drops down when you move your mouse to the very top border and then goes away again when you don't need it. It wouldn't be a pill shaped toolbar that's always active and always changing based on how apps need to display information like in those mockup renders you showed and like how Dynamic Island on iOS works. To me a Mac version of the Dynamic Island is just a revamped full screen mode where the dropdown toolbar morphs depending on how you choose to interact with it via the mouse, but it stays out of the way otherwise. But i also think doing this would require getting rid of the notch and waiting till the web cam and the eventual FaceID tech can be small enough to be in the bezel and not have to be notched into the screen. What i'm suggesting would be cleaner with a full uninterrupted display. But yeah in general i personally would love to see elements like the toolbar be able to have more movement and interactivity to them like the app bar at the bottom when you can have it magnify as you hover over the different app icons. Especially in a world where Apple allegedly plans to move to OLED and touch. Having the static elements of the OS be simultaneously more out of the way when you don't need them but be fluid and interactive/re-active when you do need them would be smart.

  35. What would me annoy the most out of this is that the time and date would no longer be in one place in the corner. It would constantly change its position based on the app you're using and how many menus are on the left side.
    It already extremely annoys me how the microphone indictator is moving constantly on the 14 Pro instead of its fixed position. This almost renders this features completely useless because often you can't even find this goddamn dot. And on the Mac it would be like 10 million times worse.

  37. The first thing to remember is, from a hardware perspective, the ihole rumours were absolutely correct. What the manufacturing people couldn’t know is how it was going to be implemented in software.

    Also, iPhones have touch screens, MacBooks have mice and trackpads. Having the menu bar move around while you move the mouse pointer up to it would get annoying real quick.