I used to think gold items were for old dudes. Then I got older and started appreciating the class of gold and bought a gold Apple Watch and have loved it. Just ordered my first gold iPhone to match. Always been black devices in the past.
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Other Gold isn’t popular at all this year?
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AppleChic76
macrumors 6502a
The gold SS series 4 watch is beautiful! I have one also.🙂
It is! It blends into my skin so well; very classy. I wasn’t moved at all to upgrade this year.
PlainEnvelopes
macrumors 6502
I was stocked on the Gold last year but it was not gold enough for me personally. Lived with it for a year, but onto midnight green now.
But will it be green enough for you? Joking of course.
PlainEnvelopes
macrumors 6502
Never know. I can live with any color now that you don't have to look at it when look at the screen.
The Gold XS was a disappointment. Apple made it look like real gold (obviously aesthetics only) and in person the phone’s colour was very influenced by light, it would look creamy brown, silver, rose gold, pink, yellowish... everything but the colour that they showed of.
cant it also be that apple calculated early adopters might buy more gold units than other colors? they might have made more of them.
theres a big group of consumers with disposable income that still love gold handsets.
theres a big group of consumers with disposable income that still love gold handsets.
TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️
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It looks like the Rose Gold 11 Pro is still the only available option for the launch day delivery/pickup. The most popular ones are Silver and Midnight Green in all configurations and pushed back to October 7-14.
I got my XS Max in gold last year, and I still think the color is absolutely stunning. I love the gold stainless steel band, and the gold glass back. But something about the 11 Pro Gold back just looks off to me, I didn’t find it as appealing so I went with the midnight green ♂️
hellopupy
macrumors 6502
In my opinion, the XS gold looked great, the 11 Pro gold looks like an iPhone 6s.
Could be why nobody wants it.
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Green was good at best, IMO.
For me it looked too much like a device meant for the warzone instead of a business meeting.
Bethanie21
macrumors 6502a
I’m in the same position as you. Usually have space grey, as always had iPhones with bezels and hated the white front of the other colours. Now I’m getting my first bezel-less iPhone, I’ve gone for gold for a change. Just a bit bored of space grey.
While the frame and buttons may be polished Gold color the back is pink-peach. Not exactly what people want
I was really disappointed with Green when they revealed it. Personally I would have liked to have Rose Gold (Pink) back but I tried to get my hands on Green but my upgrade messed up. Why did I try to get Green even though I'm disappointed with? I am just sick of black and white phones. I wonder if the matte finish will make me think differently but I just couldn't do Silver or Grey again-I'm just sick of looking at it. So I wanted Green because it's different. Ended up only being able to get a Gold Max Pro. I don't like Gold but I like this Gold better than the previous Gold. I ended up getting a Saddle Brown case which it looks nice with.
I went with gold after having a gold xs max. I’m actually not that crazy about the gold because it’s not really gold. It’s like a flesh colour. My absolute favorite colour is green but too me the midnight green looks worn out ashy black with green under tones. I wish they went lighter. I told my self I would need to see it person when I pick up my gold on to see if I want to switch to the green one. White and silver were never an option to me and I’ve have a black or space grey iPhone since my first iphone.
Europa13
macrumors 6502
Yeah, I think neutral colors are the best sellers, but there was a very high demand for gold the first year they offered it (5s in 2013). That was the year we had to wait in line if we wanted a launch-day phone and a lot of Apple Stores only got two gold phones.
bryn0076
macrumors regular
I’d like to know where you’ve seen those pictures. I’ve been looking for images of the green iPhone in the wild to see how different light affects the colour. Fancy sharing ?
Yep, I remember that as well. And I think the rose gold in the 6S was super popular too.
bryn0076
macrumors regular
The gold was released primarily for the China market. Falling sales over there are probably impacting.
https://www.techtimes.com/articles/62795/20150623/why-is-there-gold-apple-iphone-because-china.htm
https://www.techtimes.com/articles/62795/20150623/why-is-there-gold-apple-iphone-because-china.htm
This is only valid when you start from the false preposition that Apple is making 25% white, 25% black, 25% green and 25% gold phones, which they don't. So you can't really say anything absolute about what colors are populair and which aren't.
I didn’t say anything about what percentages apple is making? I’m just going based on the fact that gold iPhones are still available on launch day and the other colors aren’t, and that gold was one of the ones to sell out in years past..