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Space Gray iPhone 5s Most Popular Amid Supply Constraints, Blue Leads for iPhone 5c
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This always baffled me. I bought a black iPhone 5 at launch and it was my first iPhone I didnt protect AT ALL, and when I sold it last month it still looked flawless. I much preferred it to the space gray 5s I have now. Color wise anyways
I'm still upset over the fact I was 1st in line at my store and couldnt get a gold one though
Not that I care for anyone else's personal color preference, but to me, a NeXT/Apple alum the space gray/grey is a special homage to NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP.
It's also the perfect color combination to keep your eyes relaxed and not distracted. It just has a subdued, industrial/pro look.
It's also the perfect color combination to keep your eyes relaxed and not distracted. It just has a subdued, industrial/pro look.
Space Gray wins for the black front. Some people care only about it, since they cover their phone with every kind of case.
So the minority of (mostly males) here who insisted that gold was somehow a feminine colour should now realise that that actually it's an even split, and therefore completely gender-neutral.
And if those males bought a silver 5S to preserve their masculinity, well, it now turns out that silver is the colour that's more popular with women than men, which is ironic.
And if those males bought a silver 5S to preserve their masculinity, well, it now turns out that silver is the colour that's more popular with women than men, which is ironic.
There are male who purchased the pink 5c?
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The very same reason I got that color as a choice.
Had the white 4S and this is refreshing.
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The very same reason I got that color as a choice.
Had the white 4S and this is refreshing.
People didn't have to buy anything. I think people are getting the wrong idea in fact the people who prefer Space Grey prefer it more than people who prefer the other colours prefer those; plenty of people have planned on a Silver or Gold model only to give up and go for Space Grey to save waiting, whereas I've never heard of, nor would I myself, accept the other models as a replacement to a black-bezelled device.
Having just vacationed in NYC for the past week for my 40th I saw at least one of every color with every gender of the 5c and 5s. Yes even pink with guys... in fact that would be the type of guy I go for
Here one of my employees has a silver 5s and actually thats the only one I've seen locally in use unless I'm at one of the apple stores.
I'm keeping my black 5 for now, but I remember pre-ordering the white 4 at announcement and ended up canceling and getting the black 4 after a month or so of waiting..
I don't usually use a case but I recently got the product red one for the 5, although its already quite dirty.
Here one of my employees has a silver 5s and actually thats the only one I've seen locally in use unless I'm at one of the apple stores.
I'm keeping my black 5 for now, but I remember pre-ordering the white 4 at announcement and ended up canceling and getting the black 4 after a month or so of waiting..
I don't usually use a case but I recently got the product red one for the 5, although its already quite dirty.
Colors
I got the space gray for my iPhone 5s. It looks nice.
As to the iPhone 5c, blue is the least hideous. All of the colors are ugly pastels from the 1970s and the phone itself is as slippery as a bar of soap. My wife slapped hers in a silicone purple case within a day that totally hides the fugly blue and makes the phone ergonomically sound. Now she is much happier. Just totally hide it. Great job, Jony...
I LOVED the colors of the iPod Mini, and the iPod Nanos. Beautiful! Even my unused Shuffle is so pretty. Jobs must have picked those; Jony apparently only likes pastels loved by 'Modern' visual designers and millennials and hated by almost everyone else --you know, most consumers.
I wish fixing the ugly colors and legibility of iOS 7 was as easy as fixing the ugliness/poor human factors of the iPhone 5c.
I got the space gray for my iPhone 5s. It looks nice.
As to the iPhone 5c, blue is the least hideous. All of the colors are ugly pastels from the 1970s and the phone itself is as slippery as a bar of soap. My wife slapped hers in a silicone purple case within a day that totally hides the fugly blue and makes the phone ergonomically sound. Now she is much happier. Just totally hide it. Great job, Jony...
I LOVED the colors of the iPod Mini, and the iPod Nanos. Beautiful! Even my unused Shuffle is so pretty. Jobs must have picked those; Jony apparently only likes pastels loved by 'Modern' visual designers and millennials and hated by almost everyone else --you know, most consumers.
I wish fixing the ugly colors and legibility of iOS 7 was as easy as fixing the ugliness/poor human factors of the iPhone 5c.
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Gold
I like gold...not just money, but the color. But I got the space gray because I don't like the white front.
I always thought Apple's weird fixation with all white looked like something from the set of '2001: A Space Odyssey', or from 'A Clockwork Orange' (there is a 'Modern' home with all white plastic furniture). Always thought my wife's white Macbook sucked too and the white iMac; the newer all metal designs are dreamy in comparison. As a design aesthetic, it is just like the fugly pastels in iOS 7----a throw back to the color schemes and aesthetics of the early 1970s. Only difference is it was called "Mod" then and we call it "Modern" now. And of course, the people who like the new colors are too young to remember the last time it scarred our retinas.
I like gold...not just money, but the color. But I got the space gray because I don't like the white front.
I always thought Apple's weird fixation with all white looked like something from the set of '2001: A Space Odyssey', or from 'A Clockwork Orange' (there is a 'Modern' home with all white plastic furniture). Always thought my wife's white Macbook sucked too and the white iMac; the newer all metal designs are dreamy in comparison. As a design aesthetic, it is just like the fugly pastels in iOS 7----a throw back to the color schemes and aesthetics of the early 1970s. Only difference is it was called "Mod" then and we call it "Modern" now. And of course, the people who like the new colors are too young to remember the last time it scarred our retinas.
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Go overboard much?
In western cultures, colors go through frequent cycles of popularity, because they really don't mean much beyond fickle personal taste and what manufacturers and designers are trying to sell us this season. Not so much in eastern cultures, where meanings that have evolved over centuries are attached to colors.
Personally, I think gold as a color is pretentious. To me gold coating plastic or metal that isn't actually gold is the height of phoniness (no pun intended), and communicates a person who is trying way too hard to impress others. It's a lot like the current trend of wearing clothing with huge manufacturer's advertisements on the front. People who do that are saying to everyone nothing more than, "Look how much money I spent for this t-shirt." Sad.
No
No. I call it the way I see it. I'm betting the iPhone 5c's slow sales are because the colors are ugly, not even because it is plastic (a LOT of Android devices are plastic and sell just fine...but they do not have ugly pastel colors and are slippery as soap?). The iphone 5s is nice looking, if staid.
This is not 'cycles of popularity'-- I'd expect it to SELL if it was tied into cultural cycles -- this is Jony Ive's fashion sense, who is aping the current visual design community who are guided by FASHION. Fashions do not have to be popular---it just requires a small group of people to look down their noses at the unwashed masses and tell them they suck. A lot of people hate iOS7's colors and aren't thrilled with the colors of the iPhone 5c, so you can hardly say this was driven by popularity or market forces. It is FASHION solely, with the same immutable logic of do not wear white after labor day: arbitrary and meaningless.
The colorful iMacs sold well; the colorful iPod Mini sold well. Very different color palette, which obviously Jony feels is "old" and no longer fashionable.
As to gold, that is your preference, which is fine. I have more problem with the retro-mod look of white on the front. Apple had just one color with a black front---not a whole lot of choice on the iPhone 5s.
No. I call it the way I see it. I'm betting the iPhone 5c's slow sales are because the colors are ugly, not even because it is plastic (a LOT of Android devices are plastic and sell just fine...but they do not have ugly pastel colors and are slippery as soap?). The iphone 5s is nice looking, if staid.
This is not 'cycles of popularity'-- I'd expect it to SELL if it was tied into cultural cycles -- this is Jony Ive's fashion sense, who is aping the current visual design community who are guided by FASHION. Fashions do not have to be popular---it just requires a small group of people to look down their noses at the unwashed masses and tell them they suck. A lot of people hate iOS7's colors and aren't thrilled with the colors of the iPhone 5c, so you can hardly say this was driven by popularity or market forces. It is FASHION solely, with the same immutable logic of do not wear white after labor day: arbitrary and meaningless.
The colorful iMacs sold well; the colorful iPod Mini sold well. Very different color palette, which obviously Jony feels is "old" and no longer fashionable.
As to gold, that is your preference, which is fine. I have more problem with the retro-mod look of white on the front. Apple had just one color with a black front---not a whole lot of choice on the iPhone 5s.
I call it the way other people see it. Unusual? You bet!
This stuff is arbitrary, except where it isn't. As pointed out several times already, these are stats for the U.S. only. The fact that these products were designed for world consumption, where color has very different cultural implications, seems to have escaped your notice.
No, it really does appear to have escaped your notice. I'd already pointed out twice before that these stats are for the U.S. only, rendering your sweeping conclusions rather difficult to support, to say the least.
Or maybe you just decided to ignore what I said. Hard to tell. You think perhaps I should apologize for pointing out the obvious flaws in your argument?
The most obvious/important one u missed, Alien -- especially Alien, wich Ridley Scott directed (which if u recall, also directed the 1984 commercial.)
Honestly, a lot of the scenes and things in these movies - especially Alien - still look futuristic.
Alien(s) is so haunting to me, because it seems to be the one with the most plausible future.
I know back then a thing people used to say was that apple computer was alien technology.
Conspiracy theories
You do realize that the only primary difference between the iPhone 5 and the iPhone 5C are the "COLORS," right? If it's enough to get people to buy a phone, I'd say it's enough to warrant a breakdown in the news.
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Whipped.
That's a matter of taste. There are a lot of people who prefer the stern, all-black look of the iPhone 5 (me as well). But I think the 5S looks nice too (kinda reminds me of the iPhone 4 which was maybe the most beautiful iPhone of all times, imho). Anyway, they both look lots of times better than either the white or the gold model, in my opinion (I really think that the white front simply ruins the elegance of the phone, especially with the screen turned off).