I don't think it was the same team. They clearly put their A players on the Air dev team. Interns and leftovers ran the Pro.
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iPhone 18 Pro May Drop Rear Two-Tone Appearance for a Unified Look
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I don't know about that frankly. Your sig is funny because it's true btw. I will say no more.
Seems like you replied to the wrong person. My comment was about the frame structure.
He might have indeed approved them, but at the same time he might have not. We would never know for sure now. 😅
LOL, the case on my 17PM covers this perfectly, so don't give a rats ...
Or he may have rejected it and the design team decided to move forward with him gone from this world. Who knows. 😅
One thing for sure is that design is definitely questionable.
The two tone looks silly imo. Reminds me of adding a race stripe to a prius to make it look faster. The 17Pro is just not appealing to me i suppose. Feels like the perfect iPhone if you have a cyber truck.
A case... for the iMac? And uh, I haven't used a case on my iPhone in many years.
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makes the pro look cheap. I mac looked interesting when it was new, but the pastel worked better in some hues than others.
I always put my phones in cases, and now without bezels or a home button, I can’t really see the color of mine. I believe my 15MAX is a dark blue, but I have the denim blue case so it makes the camera bump look black anyway.
My wife has a magenta case with a pink 16 and they match perfectly.
To me i liked the two tone effect it differentiated it from the past line up & the competition. To the naysayers the cosmic orange & derp blue are the best colours.
I will be skipping the 18 for the iphone 20 pro max anniversary model which hopefully overhauls the iphone x design.
I will be skipping the 18 for the iphone 20 pro max anniversary model which hopefully overhauls the iphone x design.
Hard disagree. Apple devices are (usually) very sleek, compact, and attractive looking. This isn't really that. If Apple didn't have their logo on it and no one saw it turned on no one would guess it was an Apple phone.
Have the blue Pro, can’t really notice the glass, more noticeable on silver and orange.
The two tone is an absolutely horrendous design decision. I’m shocked it made it to production.
When you have two materials together you can never get an exact match of the color and appearance. It will always be close but a little off. It is often better, in that case, to make them two different but harmonizing colors. The current design doesn’t look “silly” at all.
I haven’t seen anybody dig into how much this may be impacting iPhone Air sales “But wait, you just convinced us that you goofed and aluminum is better than titanium and we believed you….”
Don’t mind the two tone look of the Orange 17 Pro Max. Love the color. A unified single color also will not be bad. Of course if the color(s) are darker that the Orange this year, then don’t know how much it will actually be immediately noticeable. Hoping that Apple will have a bright fun color each year for the Pro iPhone.
It's a question of what trade offs they have to make. Apple needs to contend with physics. They need a minimum size sensor to maintain or improve picture quality, and that in turn affects the lens they need at a given focal length to produce a good camera. Unfortunately because of physics, it's currently more likely the lenses will grow rather than shrink. The only way I see to reduce the apparent size of the camera bump without impacting photo quality is making the phone as a whole thicker.
Nooooo
The 17 pro max is one of the best looking iPhones in a long time. Reminds of the two tone iPhone 5.
Not that I’ll be upgrading to the 18 anyway… maybe the 2027 iPhone.
The 17 pro max is one of the best looking iPhones in a long time. Reminds of the two tone iPhone 5.
Not that I’ll be upgrading to the 18 anyway… maybe the 2027 iPhone.