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Not really. The top of the line android doesn't even really try to copy apple anymore. Some copy it because they can't just have the old "huge bezel at the top" design anymore, but eg samsung leaped above it with mini-bezel and then infinity-o, and xiaomi is going for under screen tech.

And it is guaranteed that Apple will move to under-screen too once it's mature. The notch was a stop gap, no matter how used to it you think you might be, it's still a screen waster. Though with Apple's "we made that choice so it was right we won't go back", I wonder if they will ever go to an under the screen fingerprint sensor now that it works well. As great as face unlock is, they are many times where I want to unlock with my phone on my desk and fingerprint is superior, I was glad to recover it on my S10+ after 2 generations of missing it (scanner being backside).



Apple won't move to under screen.

There is way too much going on in their notch compared to their Android counterparts:

https://www.iphonefaq.org/archives/976228


An underscreen camera was an Apple patent circa 2005. I always thought that this was going to be the killer feature of the iPhone, but that never came to pass.




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