Here in Japan, blue is practically a national color. Traditional indigo dyeing is a treasured art form. The nickname of the national football team is "Samurai Blue." And objects that many other cultures would describe as "green" are "blue" in Japanese. (Sets of traffic lights, for instance, are said to be red, yellow, and blue. And the "little green apples" that Roger Miller sang about are called "ao-ringo," or "blue apples," in Japan.)
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Tim Cook: Japanese Supplier Seiko Advance is the Reason Why iPhone 11 Pro is Available in Midnight Green
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Sure with ‘outdoor clothing’, green is more popular, ditto for specialised off-road vehicles. But that is not was 90% of the population wears or drives. Construction vehicles are often orange, that doesn’t really mean that orange would be colour a lot of people would choose for their phone.
I don't doubt what you are saying. However, they might have thought about using a cleaner vat for this type of dog and pony show for a customer's high profile CEO.
I'm with you on this one. It's very easy to step in, say "Apple sucks" and then back out without giving any relevant reasoning. The post said cheap motherboard, cheap memory. It's all custom, you can't go to a Micro-center and buy this off the rack, how do you know it's cheap?
And yeah, if you're going to comment that Apple isn't high quality, you do have to give an example of one that is. Lenovo? Microsoft? Those are good comparisons I guess, but I don't think anyone would put the two next to each other and say Apple is a lower quality.
Still my favourite iPhone to date! The design seemed underestimated at the time and it also felt amazing to hold. It was an actual joy to look at the back and see the different texture from the glass and the aluminium frame
While I totally agree with you, my question wasn't even that complicated. Being a hardware design (and systems) engineer for a few decades, I was simply curious which consumer tech manufacturers were using "higher quality" components.
I like my green 11 Pro but if they released this color I would be all over this for my next phone.
They said it has a clean room in the facility, not that the entire facility is a clean room. Likewise, a lot of manufacturing, especially like this is, is worried about the inside of the vat, where the color is actually being made, and not the outside.
Yep, this is a special paint color that can only be made through a precision high quality process. It's an awesome, practically magic color. Only Apple (well, er, Seiko) has the attention to detail needed to make this color.
Any way you take this store, Timmy comes off sounding like an ignorant child, in deep over his head with no clue what he's doing. Even if there is something special about this green paint being a "cleaner" process whatever that means, what does that have to do with iPhones?
You know what's cool? In 2009, the first new blue pigment in over 200 years was discovered at Oregon State University. Licensing that pigment to make an iPhone in a brand new shade of blue would have been cool. But it still wouldn't make the iPhone a better phone.
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The sky is blue everywhere, the landscape is only green some places. And when you're over water, that's blue too. Blue is far more common.
good to hear Japanese companies still supply high craftsmanship and quality in products.
midnight green is a cool color. wish my company iPhone 11 "base model" had midnight green as an option. even space grey was not an option had to settle for red. wish the green was more surf green like some fender strat guitars
midnight green is a cool color. wish my company iPhone 11 "base model" had midnight green as an option. even space grey was not an option had to settle for red. wish the green was more surf green like some fender strat guitars
Never been to Glasgow then?
Joking aside, Pantone just pronounced Classic Blue as 2020 color of the year. So maybe we’ll see a dark blue phone?
YES! I was disappointed to even see that Cosmic Blue rumor and get dumb green that looks gray 99% of the time. Only looks green if it is dark in the room or outside.
Absolutely my favorite iPhone / Apple product color of all time. Bought a Slate iPad Mini 1 just because it came in that finish for a short time. Wouldn’t mind tracking down an old Touch in that shade for next to nothing.
Unless you’re referring to the front... I don’t think we’ll see that again for a while due to the screen sizes and to-the-edge design. The white front notch would just reveal a weird camera / sensor array I don’t think anyone wants to bring design attention to.
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It doesn't matter what colour an iPhone comes in. You never see a naked iPhone in the wild.
The first thing everyone does is wrap it in a big, fat silicon case so as to be able to keep a grip on the thing, stop it sliding off every surface it's placed on, and to stop the sticky-out lens from getting scratched.
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It isn't. It never has been.
They don't? Are you referring to the keyboard issue? That wasn't so much an issue of cheap components, that was more of a poor design. FWIW my 2018 MacBook Air is still cooking and I really prefer that keyboard to other keyboards.
I have had it for almost a year at this point.. And worst case scenario I an bring it in to Apple and have them fix it if something crops up. Not worried.
Swing and a miss.
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Oh well, didn’t know mba was under that coverage too but good for you I guess, I don’t care about mba enough to read up on it
back to the point, Apple doesn’t use highest quality as “someone” pointed out in this thread, they like any other manufacturer uses parts and supplies that are good enough.
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