Sounds like you're really overreacting. Turns out manufacturers cant' mass produce the phone to apple's specs so they canceled it. Is this really going to ruin your day/week/year?
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Apple Removes Mention of White iPhone 4 From Online Store
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Sounds like you're really overreacting. Turns out manufacturers cant' mass produce the phone to apple's specs so they canceled it. Is this really going to ruin your day/week/year?
Feels good, since I'm an adult who uses the equipment that works best for me and doesn't give a hot damn about what everybody else is using. Nor do I concern myself with being different for the sake of being different. If any of the Android phones were to my liking, I'd be using one of them. They weren't, so I'm not. It's not that complicated.
I was thinking about this last night after I read your comment and I remembered something.
Product(RED) is a baby of Bono and U2 right? I remembered reading that Bono has a lot of personal stock in Blackberry/RIM. Making music players in the Product(RED) moniker is fine, but if they made a Product(RED) iPhone it may be considered an issue given Bono's ties to RIM. Just a thought... and I agree, I would grab a Product(RED) iPhone in a second, although I also read that not much profit from the sales have actually reached those in Africa that need the funding, which I hope was untrue...
As for all this hoopla over a white iPhone, who cares? Apple was right in pulling out as it seems the SUPPLIER is having color consistency issues and other rumors regarding light leakage abound. However, none of this has been confirmed. As many have mentioned, it is so late in the production date and with rumored iPhone 5's around the corner for Verizon, et al, it would make sense for Apple to pull the plug and move forward. This is not an embarrassment for any company, it wouldn't be if this was an issue with Zune, or Android. It's silly guys, there are more important things in the world...
Yup. blockbuster sales are really embarrassing. Seems to be no shortage of consumers who went ahead and bought the black version.
The white iPhone was never a factor for anything. Nor will it be.
Here's reality. Just ask RIM.
http://www.betanews.com/joewilcox/a...-iPad-push-revenue-to-2034-billion/1287432873
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2010/10/18results.html
I always wonder whether they use (retouched) actual images, Photoshop mock-ups, or a combination of the two to create their promotional images. I always suspected it was highly Photoshopped actual images, but things like this make me wonder.
Of course, it's possible they've made a few (safe to assume they have) and even gone so far as to create promotional images with them, even if they weren't happy with the device itself.
Also goes to show their preference for appearance over function (anyone else would have changed the product design to make it work)--but also that they have some boundaries as to when, like this, it's not OK for one to compromise the other.
Not everything uses Photoshop. Apple uses Cinema 4D for all of its product shots. This way they can have it in 3D, turn it anyway they want. Cinema 4D can recreate things from a photograph and then an artist goes in and tells what is what. Glass, metal, plastic. Apple didn't need to have the actual white iPhone to take a picture of it.
How am I overreacting? I just really don't appreciate being jerked around by Apple, which everyone wanting a white one was. So, how is it an overreaction (unless you're an Apple fanboy, in which case, I completely understand why you find it to be overreacting).
Really? I don't think so. Some companies completely abandon their product, Hmm hmmmm Microsoft with their Kin and their tablet.
I'm glad Apple cares enough about a product,not let it feel cheap or the way it wasn't intended to be.
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Also goes to show their preference for appearance over function (anyone else would have changed the product design to make it work)--but also that they have some boundaries as to when, like this, it's not OK for one to compromise the other.
Sort of contradicting yourself, aren' t you?
With the iPhone 4 (and other Apple products I might add) they pursue form and function. I see no hierarchy between the two in any of their products, iPhone 4 included. Of course it always remains debatable what, exactly, each of their products is specifically intended to achieve (aside from the obvious), like tolarable heat generation etc...
Nonetheless, nobody outside Apple and the manufacturing plant knows exactly what the problem is (unless I've missed an article somewhere).
You can only be jerked around if Apple took your money for the white one but kept promising you that it would ship to you at a certain date and then kept putting it off. Since you didn't pay anything you weren't jerked around. If you chose to wait just because of something as trivial as a white color then that's on you. Nobody took your money so there's no reason for such overreaction.
It makes sense to remove it from the store itself since it's delayed probably another six months.
I'm a bit disturbed by what the problem might be with manufacturing ability. It's not like Apple hasn't made white products before. Light leakage? Please. Any lighted plastic hobby model maker can solve this, why can't Apple?
Lion looks to be boring crap. Clearly still there's an engineering strain caused by iOS just as we saw when iPhone bumped prior Mac OS X releases.
iLife 11 updates only 3 apps and are still 32-bit. iTunes is an ugly duckling kitchensink Carbon monstrosity. Other apps languish.
I'm a bit disturbed by what the problem might be with manufacturing ability. It's not like Apple hasn't made white products before. Light leakage? Please. Any lighted plastic hobby model maker can solve this, why can't Apple?
Lion looks to be boring crap. Clearly still there's an engineering strain caused by iOS just as we saw when iPhone bumped prior Mac OS X releases.
iLife 11 updates only 3 apps and are still 32-bit. iTunes is an ugly duckling kitchensink Carbon monstrosity. Other apps languish.
It does seem to be an example of poor product management. Its very unApple-like. Let's hope its not a sign of the future.
Apple sometimes looks like the Big Brother from G. Orwell's "1984". They 'retouch' history without any official explanations
Would you rather they keep it showing in the online store when they have no intention of ever selling it?
It's not always a conspiracy. In this case, they messed up, now they're making their website reflect the availability of product.
And another thing...
You know what else I can't understand...?
For all you folks that were waiting for the White iPhone, have you ever owned/used the white MacBook with the white keyboard? The keyboard gets filthy after just one month of standard use! Why anyone would think that white is a good/stylish color still confuses me...
And don't try the "Oh, but TVGuy, it really is just white behind the glass, so its easy to keep clean..." I've had two automobiles with white paint jobs AND TONS OF CLEAR COAT, and they still get filthy.
So those of you saying things like "Farewell my white iPhone 4, parting is such sweet sorrow" Please explain the fascination...
You know what else I can't understand...?
For all you folks that were waiting for the White iPhone, have you ever owned/used the white MacBook with the white keyboard? The keyboard gets filthy after just one month of standard use! Why anyone would think that white is a good/stylish color still confuses me...
And don't try the "Oh, but TVGuy, it really is just white behind the glass, so its easy to keep clean..." I've had two automobiles with white paint jobs AND TONS OF CLEAR COAT, and they still get filthy.
So those of you saying things like "Farewell my white iPhone 4, parting is such sweet sorrow" Please explain the fascination...
Damn. It's only a color of a bit of plastic, not a feature, dudes. I'm a nerd/geek/mostly fanboi/semi-regular commentor on a company whose products I only buy every few years, but even I get to say "get a life" to the people who spend more than a tenth of a second chewing on this "issue."
My white macbook...is great. A mr. clean magic eraser is fantastic at keeping the keyboard clean...(don't use it on the glossy white plastic)
as for the white car analogy...I don't hold my phone out the window while I'm driving. Road grime is completely different than everyday use for a cell phone. I've had a white car before as well...and sure it shows dirt. but a black car shows dirt much quicker.
I own a white iphone 3gs and love it.
I understand the argument that black is slimming...and electronics look smaller when they're black...but the white is intriguing.
It's become my white unicorn....I WILL have one.
(at this point...at least for me...it isn't about color anymore as it is about the elusiveness)
You know, I think that unfortunately Apple is becoming a victim of their own super-hyper-secrecy.
Because they went to such pains to keep the iPhone 4 a secret during testing (using a 3g-type case) this caused some very obvious issues to get passed by.
1.) The White paint issues may not have been an issue with it completely encased by a black case.
2.) It masked the antenna signal problems, as we all have discovered that our cases will fix the bridging problem. Because they always had a case on it, the antenna never came to light as an issue during testing.
Because they went to such pains to keep the iPhone 4 a secret during testing (using a 3g-type case) this caused some very obvious issues to get passed by.
1.) The White paint issues may not have been an issue with it completely encased by a black case.
2.) It masked the antenna signal problems, as we all have discovered that our cases will fix the bridging problem. Because they always had a case on it, the antenna never came to light as an issue during testing.
It's a style thing. As a matter of fact, white consumer electronics are very, very popular in some markets (Europe, Southeast Asia to name a couple regions).
Your individual taste is meaningless to this discussion. It's about the fashion/style/design interests of a larger audience and Apple Inc. addressing that market. If you told Steve Jobs that you think the white iPhone is stupid, he's probably say that's why they have the black one.
You're probably the type who wears Ed Hardy (or some other designer) shirts because you think they're cool.