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New Painting Process Solving White iPhone 4 Problems?
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The white iPhone will have its audience. After all, the 3Gs is still being sold, albeit no longer in white.
If people would look back at everything I've been saying over the past months, they would see I have predicted this all along. I agree with your conclusion, however I would also propose the possibility of NO IPHONE 5 in 2011. I don't think it is going to happen. Remember it was iPhone 3g, then iPhone 3GS..... something similar will happen. This year's iPhone update will not be called iPhone 5. Not happening.
Also, under a month ago, I saw the white iPhone still featured on Apple's iPhone gallery on the details page. A day after I mentioned that it was still there on this forum, Apple took it down.
Its amazing that it is so hard to paint something white, glad they conquered that technology hurdle
Really. Who knew the biggest tech challenge would be painting the thing? (Though I don't recall seeing other smartphones in white, so I guess making this actually happen IS something of a Big Deal. At least, if you see a white smartphone you can be pretty sure it's from Apple. That's brand differentiation!)
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Apple most likely called the 3rd gen iPhone the 3GS so that they could call the 4th gen the iPhone 4. If the 3G iPhone was instead called the iPhone 2, the 3GS would have been called iPhone 3. Imagine people being seriously confused if there 5th gen product was called by the number 6 and so on.
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Apple most likely called the 3rd gen iPhone the 3GS so that they could call the 4th gen the iPhone 4. If the 3G iPhone was instead called the iPhone 2, the 3GS would have been called iPhone 3. Imagine people being seriously confused if there 5th gen product was called by the number 6 and so on.
They're going through similar amounts of trouble to release the Verizon iPhone this late into the product launch cycle.
That's not quite what I meant... I think it will retain the "iPhone 4" name, but with some addition after the 4, or some other variation without a number at all. I don't see apple continuing with the numbers labeling past 4, though. iPhone 5 sounds odd. It's not going to continue being 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11. None of the other current Apple products are identified by numbers.
I don't understand getting a white iPhone. To me, it just means it's going to look dirty a lot faster and stain easier. My white MacBook looked great at first, but after a while, it just looks old. Next one I get won't be white for that very reason.
They should do a "Product RED" one!
Apple is trying to develop just the proper hue of 'Product RED' but that Japanese company hasn't been able to duplicate the thickness layer required to match!
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Let's just hope the same factors that cause discoloration that developed in some of the white MacBooks doesn't rear its ugly head again...
More like the proper manufacturing accountant trying to save a dime each iPhone case was taken out and shot in the back parking lot.
The paint technique they are talking about is not new at all. It has been used successfully for the past twenty years. As usual, it comes down to cost. The cheaper technique didn't pass Steve muster and was scrapped.
So instead of doing it right the first time, they just paid for it twice making the whole job more expensive. Going with the lest expensive solution is not always the answer, especially when dealing with the Apple brand.
$rumor =~ s/verizon/white iPhone/;
wonder what this expression will look like once the white iPhone is released
wonder what this expression will look like once the white iPhone is released
Well...the white is under glass, it cannot get dirty or turn yellow.
Well if it comes out within 14 days of February 10 on VZ, I'll exchange the black for the white.
Well if it comes out within 14 days of February 10 on VZ, I'll exchange the black for the white.
$rumor =~ s/verizon/white iPhone/;
wonder what this expression will look like once the white iPhone is released
$rumor =~ s/white iPhone/Steve's not coming back/;