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High-Quality Photos of 'Champagne' iPhone 5S Rear Shell Surface
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I have a feeling they don't care. Having the worst impression in your mind only makes this look even better. Or maybe they never thought people would actually believe they'd release a bling bling gold phone.
How quickly they forget. Every time I see posts like the one you referenced, I giggle and think two words: Revisionist history
black still looks the best. but the chipping looks ugly.
so silver and white is still the best option.
so silver and white is still the best option.
Wow the least popular car color among other things is all of the sudden classy and elegant because Apple used it on a phone. yawn
You need to quit believing COM, and take a look around while you are actually driving...GOLD CARS EVERYWHERE.
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Yea, NEVER would have happened under Jobs
I wish people would stop talking like they know Steve Jobs SO WELL, when they clearly don't even have the slightest clue about Apples history at all. Let it go. One thing Jobs DID do was be willing to be bold and take risks. Not be conservative and reluctant to change, like you complainers on this forum are.
Totally with you. It does not sit at all right with me. This piss coloured phone (if it is the real deal) will not be going anywhere near my pocket.
That is one thing that I have often found bothersome. People often confuse being discerning with "being conservative". It simply is not the same thing. Having a strict set of criteria which you rigidly apply is the backbone of not just engineering, but design and even art and music.
What you hear as an effortless cascade of notes is really a very disciplined application of music theory and technique. It is not conservative to play all the notes in the major scale except for a single flatted interval. That is how you play in a particular key.
I do not claim to "know" Jobs. But to anyone with some design background his tendencies are obvious.
This gold iPhone is the musical equivalent of a bad note to me. I am sure it will sell. You can never underestimate the bad taste of consumers.
However it is not hard to see that it is more of a pandering to tastes than a bold design choice.
Ask yourself, would the gold iphone look more at home on an Ikea coffee table, or one of those ceramic panther coffee tables from rent to own furniture?
What if some of those people don't currently own a 5? Or care more about the technology inside than the physical case design? Or maybe they're not shallow, vain people who want their device to look drastically different so the whole world knows they have the latest and greatest.