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Minus the gold trim, I would probably prefer these to the white version. Though, white headphones is sort of Apple's thing. I kind of think the AirPods are ugly, but I also haven't seen any other bluetooth ear buds of this sort that I thought looked nice.
 
Black plastic looks ugly, there is a reason Apple doesn't use it.
How does it look any worse than white plastic?

I can see the arguments about shiny black metal looking like plastic, but this is plastic. Who cares if plastic looks like plastic?
 
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