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Very sad, although a change they made in iOS 10.2 kind of defeated the beauty of the Jet Black. I'm still stuck at 10.1 so my phone looks like this

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and not this

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It was essentially a special edition. The iPhone 5 had a dark grey called Slate that was never repeated.

Maybe they couldn’t make the Jet Black easily?

My guess is that hey wanted to keep the number of models down, as they they now have the 8, 8 Plus, and X.
 
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