Why do they keep making fingerprint magnet devices? [Archive]

agkm800

Oct 18, 2009, 04:12 PM

Owning two - iPod Touch and laptop - fingerprint magnet devices that I use most everyday is making me think I will never buy another fingerprint magnet devices other than iPod Touch or iPhone.

What boggles my mind is that why they keep using such hated materials on new devices. They cost less?

robbieduncan

Oct 18, 2009, 04:13 PM

I'm pretty sure they actually cost more. The basic fact is that consumers like them and buy them.

dmr727

Oct 18, 2009, 04:23 PM

People love shiny stuff.

Machnikowski

Oct 18, 2009, 05:01 PM

People do love the shiny stuff.

TSE

Oct 18, 2009, 05:12 PM

It pisses me off too looking at laptops and stuff and the outershell is almost always a shiny cover that attracts fingerprints. I miss the old days where all laptops were made with black matte plastic.

dmmcintyre3

Oct 21, 2009, 06:46 AM

It pisses me off too looking at laptops and stuff and the outershell is almost always a shiny cover that attracts fingerprints. I miss the old days where all laptops were made with black matte plastic.
Then look at the business laptops, they are more matte black with matte screens. The one I have did not even have the option for a mirror screen and it is not even 6 months old

cytoxyn

Oct 21, 2009, 06:52 AM

It pisses me off too looking at laptops and stuff and the outershell is almost always a shiny cover that attracts fingerprints. I miss the old days where all laptops were made with black matte plastic.

Buy a Lenovo then.

greygray

Oct 22, 2009, 06:59 AM

Owning two - iPod Touch and laptop - fingerprint magnet devices that I use most everyday is making me think I will never buy another fingerprint magnet devices other than iPod Touch or iPhone.

What boggles my mind is that why they keep using such hated materials on new devices. They cost less?

Shiny stuff look classier and more expensive. Cars mostly come with glossy paint and not matte. Matte looks punky IMO.

robbieduncan

Oct 22, 2009, 07:04 AM

Matte looks punky IMO.

Oh really?

http://speedlux.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/Lotus-Exige-Scura-9.jpg

greygray

Oct 22, 2009, 08:02 AM

Oh really?

Ok, but that's just my opinion. To me, it's more of matte cars that look ugly. I would wonder how white matte would be like.

yg17

Oct 22, 2009, 08:27 AM

Oh really?

http://speedlux.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/Lotus-Exige-Scura-9.jpg

But that's a Lotus. It could be pink and green polka dots on an orange body and it would still look sexy :D

robbieduncan

Oct 22, 2009, 08:38 AM

I would wonder how white matte would be like.

They had a matte white Tesla Roadster at the Canary Wharf Motor Expo this year. It didn't look all that good. Sort of dirty rather than white.

Edit found a picture. It looks better in the picture than it did in real life

http://www.imotormag.co.uk/siteimage/scale/800/600/75389.png

greygray

Oct 23, 2009, 02:45 AM

[QUOTE=robbieduncan;8685796]They had a matte white Tesla Roadster at the Canary Wharf Motor Expo this year. It didn't look all that good. Sort of dirty rather than white.

Edit found a picture. It looks better in the picture than it did in real life

*Snipped the picture*

Looks very nice. Thanks for posting them. But, I'm pretty sure we'll never see matte coming to the iPhone, especially the white matte..