iPhone 14 camera cutout may not be the shape that's expected

ericthehalfbee said:
The cutout in the examples above is worse than a notch.

If you took the exact same sized cutout and moved it up to the edge so it’s a smaller notch you get more usable screen space. The screen above/around the cutout is literally wasted space that can’t display any content. What benefit does it bring, except to appease the people who whine about the notch?

You kind of defeat your own point here.

Both notches and cutouts take up usable screen space. The alternative to that is a forehead, moving everything into the frame via a curvature (frame bump) or under the screen (technology which isn't ready for the mass market yet). So it is a given that space will be lost in the current way manufacturers deal with the problem.

In that scenario the size of the lost space comes into its own, not the chosen format. Apple's notches have always been huge. The cutout option shown here looks smaller than the notch on any previous iPhone and, perhaps more importantly, looks less dated.

To me it looks more elegant. 

Personally, I have no usage issue with either approach although I would prefer everything in the frame.