Black iPhone?

[yep-sure]

The Black Slate iPhone and iPad Minis were awesome. It really needs to come back.

 

[Talkingtoaster]

My mate had a 5 and its chipped so easily. He was careful but ended up looking **** after 6 months. Is the colour applied directly on top of natural aluminium? I surprised when they tested it nobody picked up on this.

 

[iZac]

My dream is that they can do some alchemy and create an alloy with colour inside. Would make anodising much more natural.

 

[Max(IT)]

Well. That's why we have Space Gray. Apple simply chose not to do this again instead of fixing their process.

I don't know if there is anything to be fixed: that's just how anodized aluminum behave. I've seen that happen on many tools...

 

[eyoungren]

I don't know if there is anything to be fixed: that's just how anodized aluminum behave. I've seen that happen on many tools...

Neucase seems able to give a black matte anodized finish that stands up. Their housings are anodized metal, not cases.

There were also quite a few arguments here when Scuffgate happened by metallurgists stating that Apple wasn't anodizing the metal long enough and/or was not using the correct process. Because of that it was more of a paint type deal, which scratched easily and flaked off. It didn't bond with the metal, it just attached to the top of it.