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thanks for watching tech quickie click the subscribe button and enable notifications with the bell icon so you won't miss any future videos oh hey what's that thing well I guess if you're watching this on an iPhone 10 you're used to a by now but for the rest of you this is probably pretty annoying so what exactly is the point of the knotch which is either suddenly in vogue or a huge source of complaints depending on your opinion it's Apple just trying to tell us all yeah or Apple and we can do whatever you want with our gadgets just like we do with the headphone jack well not exactly in fact the lesser-known essential phone was actually the first bonner smartphone to feature a notch for its front-facing camera though it's quite a bit smaller than the one you'd find on the iPhone 10 release just two months before the iPhone 10 the essential phone was our first look at how a phone designer might try to fill as much of the front of the devices as possible with actual screen instead of bezels and although they figured out how to bury a fingerprint sensor under the display which you can learn more about up here the industry hasn't yet figured out how to do it with a front-facing camera which is now a critical feature in all modern smartphones due to its utilization by popular apps and of course are narcissistic need for on-demand selfies of course many filmmakers simply hide the camera and other phone components inside of a bezel but the essential went with a notch approach because Android OS fills the top notification bar from the left and right so the idea was that the camera in the middle wouldn't block anything super important and they even built in an option that allowing the user to choose whether or not to hide the notch in landscape mode by turning the knotch side of the screen into a black bar that won't block anything of course Apple stock is significantly larger leaving only two small loaves of screen space at the phone's corners a big part of the rationale for this is that the iPhone tends face ID recognition system needs additional equipment such as an IR camera and a dot projector that can't also yet be buried under the screen so to be fair the iPhone tend to sporting a pretty cool piece of tech that the central phone and other Android devices don't yet have and iOS also doesn't display notification icons across top of the screen like Android does making the notches a little easier to get away with and Apple does designate safe areas in app development to prevent content from being obscured by the knotch now of course this doesn't mean that the not should be immune from criticism with many users noting that it seems like a ham-fisted attempt at a bezel was phone before the technology has completely caught up especially as we're now seeing phones that are bezel is on three sides a more appealing alternative to the awkward not at least for some because awkwardness is in the eye of the beholder right and there's been speculation that Apple was intentionally using the bezel as a signature look just like the scroll wheel of the iPod and anytime Apple does that other companies including one plus and a soos follow suit and both have already confirmed they'll be using notches in their upcoming phones with one a sous exec even going so far as to say it's what the people want so whether you love or hate Apple for starting this trend there's a good chance we'll see nauseous become more common until solutions for hiding phone components beneath the display become widespread in fact Android P has features specifically for developers who want to incorporate notches into app design so if you are hoping that the phone industry will relent and suddenly decide notches are a bad idea you might want to dial your host back a notch not only this P ia works on up to five devices at once by hiding your IP address and allowing you to bypass geo restrictions of censorship by making you appear that you're connecting from somewhere else it also blocks unwanted connections to help prevent attacks although blocks all traffic through the VPN disconnects keeps your data out of the hands of advertisers and other snoops who are tracking your activity prevents DNS leaks and even includes Mase P is built-in malware blocker PIAA supports multiple VPN protocols and encryption levels allowing you to dial in the exact level of protection that you need they have apps for Windows Mac Android iOS Linux and a Chrome extension with support for even more platforms coming soon and the PIAA has over 3,000 servers in 28 different countries and does not lock user activity so what are you waiting for check them out today at the link below ok guys thanks for watching Tech Book II like this if you liked it dislike it if you didn't like four more notches embedded in the video like four more bad puns about notches leave a comment the video description check out other channels and don't forget to subscribe