But you’re talking aesthetics only. You have no idea why the camera array is like that. You just think it’s ugly therefore it should be something else. What was so beautiful about the 6? It was just a slab of aluminum. What’s inspired about that?
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iPhone 11 Pro The iPhone 11 Pros are the ugliest iPhones ever made
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Never too late for a good old Steve Jobs would never have “insert personalized complaint here”.
Please say this again.
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Nasty pockets or just a lot of lint?
For the life of me I don't understand this. You want a pretty phone? Who? Why? Maybe a teenage girl who thinks a phone is a fashion accessory. 1st off, pretty or ugly are subjective terms, what you find ugly, others will find beautiful. 2nd and most important, phones are tools. I don't need my hammer to be pretty and I don't need my phone to be pretty. I want my phone to be fast, to "just work" and to take nice photos. These phones do all that, and to my eye, look pretty nice.
Because that thing is just ment to be hated dude.Look at all the Yes votes. Wonder how many registered just to hate?
The Pro camera bump is this year’s notch. People will get over it really quickly, especially if the camera ends up delivering all those awesome features they showed on stage. The pro camera lens cutouts remind me of those old small hand-held video cameras. Definitely prefer these over the leaked Pixel 4 design. Yuck.
I’m honestly thinking of pre ordering the iPhone 11 instead of the Pro. Not that it’s prettier it’s just less ugly. Still very ugly phones though.
Never expected something like this, but I guess it’s the Apple we got today $$$.
Never expected something like this, but I guess it’s the Apple we got today $$$.
Of course I’m talking aesthetics only, that’s the whole premise of this thread (something many folks are forgetting).
Perhaps it was laziness that Apple chose to go for the square camera design? Maybe a lack of room internally for better placement? Or maybe they intentionally decided to make the iPhone 11 Pro look like that just so that the phone stands out from the overcrowded smartphone market? Who knows? Apple does strange stuff.
I also take that back, the iPhone 6/6s weren’t good looking phones either. But hey at least they didn’t awaken your inner arachnophobia!
Ahh, yes, it never fails when someone tries to speak for Steve Jobs, as if you really understood his mindset and overall design cues. _Some_ of Steve Jobs designs weren’t the most influential, and things have greatly changed with Apple since then. It’s probably better that you leave him out of the equation, being no one here could speak for him.
So now we're making excuses for them making a butt ugly stove top looking phone? Now a phone being ugly is okay, and we're going to pretend the looks don't matter? lol That's a new level of being an iPhone apologist. By your logic, people shouldn't care about buying a nice looking car or a nice looking house either. All they should care about is if the car drives, and if the house has four walls and a roof. Needless to say, your position is ridiculous.
It looks awesome and so does the spider
Looks are subjective, but I don't think it's ugly any more than it looks unusual for now, but they'll begin to look normal eventually. It's not like it's the first smartphone to have more than two cameras.
First time I saw the iPhone 4 prototype I thought it was damn ugly too, but over time I learnt to appreciate it and now it's regarded as one of the most iconic Apple designs ever.
First time I saw the iPhone 4 prototype I thought it was damn ugly too, but over time I learnt to appreciate it and now it's regarded as one of the most iconic Apple designs ever.
It’s one of those features comparable with Marmite.
The iPhone 4/4s is the best iPhone ever made in terms of design. I'm surprised you had that initial reaction to it, but then again everyone is different and beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
It would be cool if Apple returned to the iPhone 4/4s and 5/5s boxy, square design like they have with the latest iPad Pros. Hopefully next year we'll see a redesign that'll redeem Apple for the current abomination that is the iPhone 11 Pro.
Well I’m never looking at the back of my phone so the camera lenses don’t mean much to me. I have no idea why the design is the way it is but one would assume engineering dictated it. Now if you want to argue the designers should have pushed back on the engineers or themselves engineered a solution that was more aesthetically pleasing you can but none of us know what happened inside Apple. Maybe this was the best that could be done under the constraints they had. Maybe everything will look completely different with the next complete redesign. Or maybe Apple doesn’t care how aesthetically pleasing the camera lenses arrangement is. Obviously Apple couldn’t avoid the camera bump this year but they certainly leaned into it. Go to their website and the first thing you see is the 11 Pro camera bump.
Maybe and I hope so. As much as I love my iPhone SE, I would like to upgrade sooner than later.
Yeah they're shoving the design into peoples faces so that over time people will get used to its hideous nature.
Haha dude, the majority of people around here is not as down to earth as you are...