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I'm holding out for the next one, the maybe-kinda-sorta-almost-not-quite-black-space-grayish version!
 
and here I was about to switch to white/silver for the next iteration. I've had all black. I didn't like it at first, but the 'slate' color of the iPhone 5 was my favorite. My 6 is just the black/space gray color. My wife has had white phones usually (5s, 6s) and I've always wanted something different than black. May still go w/white.
 
This article reminds me of some classic Father Ted - lay people's socks are very very very very very dark blue:

 
Something that has been puzzling me for a while now is the inconsistency in the shades of Space Gray and Rose Gold across all of Apple's product line. Is it a technical issue or just bad colour quality control? If its the latter Jobs would never of allowed it. I remember the white iPhone front glass being delayed for ages from going into production because Jobs thought the colour was not quite the perfect shade of white!
 
Something that has been puzzling me for a while now is the inconsistency in the shades of Space Gray and Rose Gold across all of Apple's product line. Is it a technical issue or just bad colour quality control? If its the latter Jobs would never of allowed it. I remember the white iPhone front glass being delayed for ages from going into production because Jobs thought the colour was not quite the perfect shade of white!

You left out deliberate design decision.

The list of things that Jobs would've never allowed is getting pretty full.
 
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