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iPhone 18 Pro May Drop Rear Two-Tone Appearance for a Unified Look
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I can’t remember the last time I used a case….
If they change their mind and keep the two-tone look and the plateau I'd go with a more polished version of this. A bit like 1st gen iPhone SE.
Thank you for posting the SE1 ... You just made my morning.
Man, I really miss devices like the SE1. 😔
It's so easy to make a good looking phone all Apple needs is a good design team. I can hardly believe the same team that designed the Air also designed the ugly 17 pro.
I dont think its intentionally 2 tone at all.....
If they really meant to make a genuine 2 tone phone they would have picked contrasting colours for the case and glass....
What they have instead opted to do is try to match the colour of the glass with the colour of the aluminium chassis and as they are made out of completely different materials then of course they will never look quite the same.
To suggest the 17pro is a 2 tone phone by design seems wrong to me.
If they really meant to make a genuine 2 tone phone they would have picked contrasting colours for the case and glass....
What they have instead opted to do is try to match the colour of the glass with the colour of the aluminium chassis and as they are made out of completely different materials then of course they will never look quite the same.
To suggest the 17pro is a 2 tone phone by design seems wrong to me.
hm...thought Steve Jobs left this world when the 4S came out?
He might have some input for future product though.
Optics are hard.
I would be happy with a return to a bump that is absorbed by a case so it’s flat with a case on like the 12 series.
lol, you have a point, Steve died two years prior.
Exhibit A: a mouse you cannot easily tell by feel which direction it's facing—a obvious fundamental design flaw which Steve overlooked and Ive retardedly still likes. Tbh pretty much all mice Apple have ever made haven't been good. Their keyboards could be improved (improved feel, slightly more travel and drink-spillage resistance), though their trackpads are the industry bar.
Folks! All they're doing is trying to make the colors match. Let's keep some perspective here.
9% of iPhones buyers in the US and 13% globally don't use a case, but I bet many of those are the early adopter of new models. It's possible 1/4 or 1/3 new iPhone buyers for new models don't use a case. A sizeable number out the gate. Either way, you'd be surprised how much the colour inside the case matters to those who will buy a case. Some like clear cases too, I know I do.
Well it's unibody because it's aluminum. But from the rumors so far, looks like they're be switching to frame again soon (and probably ditching aluminum)
You may be misinterpreting the post. The rumour here is painting a picture of no physical design changes, but adjustments to colouring to tone down the two-tone look.
In this example the glass would need to be darker and a slightly different hue to blend more seamlessly:
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There are new rumors coming out everyday so we won't know until next year. But from the QC issues of the 17s so far, Apple will likely make changes to address them.
Likely impossible to make them 100% match so they chose to make them complement.
I have a chrome Delta shower faucet. Different parts are different substrates (metals and plastic) so even though they are all chromed, they don’t quite match. And over time they will age differently.
I don't believe the 17 Pro two-tone look is related to some of QC issues (such as pink-ification), but rather it was a conscious aesthetic choice to highlight the change in material, like white plastic selected to compliment silver aluminium instead of silver plastic trying to hide it. Apple will sometimes compliment adjacent material colours (white with silver), they can contrast (black with silver) and other times they will chose to blend (grey with silver).
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