Why the dislike for the space grey?

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Some love it, but there seems to be plenty of people hating on the space grey. Me personally, I would never get the gold or silver because I can't stand a white front. Black makes much more sense.

Slate did look awesome, but grey looks just as good. And if it means reducing/removing scuffgate, I'm all for it. The gold and silver look cool and all, but the space grey is still the closest thing we have to black.

Why space gray sucks:

- The name is stupid. Space is not gray. This was clearly stolen from BMW, just call the color tungsten or graphite or something.

- It's boring, it's neither shiny, nor stealthy, nor iridescent (showing teal magenta and blue under the light) like slate was.

- It's insulting. Apple managed to anodize a solid piece of aluminium so that it was both iridescent dark gray on the matte parts and pure black on the polished parts. The first time I saw slate in person I was wowed. Space gray is just generic industrial and stupid. The white iPhone 5 was expected, the slate iPhone 5 was ICONIC, and Apple killed it.

- It eliminates choice. I'd be glad if they added graphite or whatever you want to call it. However they decided to kill slate for this stupid color.

 

[atlatnesiti]

Why space gray sucks:

- The name is stupid. Space is not gray. This was clearly stolen from BMW, just call the color tungsten or graphite or something.

- It's boring, it's neither shiny, nor stealthy, nor iridescent (showing teal magenta and blue under the light) like slate was.

- It's insulting. Apple managed to anodize a solid piece of aluminium so that it was both iridescent dark gray on the matte parts and pure black on the polished parts. The first time I saw slate in person I was wowed. Space gray is just generic industrial and stupid. The white iPhone 5 was expected, the slate iPhone 5 was ICONIC, and Apple killed it.

- It eliminates choice. I'd be glad if they added graphite or whatever you want to call it. However they decided to kill slate for this stupid color.

Space is as close as you can get to "graphite", actually it is graphite. Would you prefer if Apple named it graphite? LOL
BTW; The reason Apple eliminated slate is due to scuffing issue and they hope that "space" will not show it as much
I have bought iPhone 5 white and silver, because because of of that very reason. One year down the track and it still looks as brand new

 

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I've always found grey inspiring...

 

[atlatnesiti]

I've always found grey inspiring...

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Looks graphite to me

 

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Space is as close as you can get to "graphite", actually it is graphite. Would you prefer if Apple named it graphite? LOL
BTW; The reason Apple eliminated slate is due to scuffing issue and they hope that "space" will not show it as much
I have bought iPhone 5 white and silver, because because of of that very reason. One year down the track and it still looks as brand new

I bought a slate iPhone 5 on launch day, and I treated it like ABSOLUTE DIRT. I literally threw the phone across the floor on a weekly basis and I dropped it at least twice a day onto hard surfaces like tile and rough concrete on the curb of a busy street. I kept the phone in pocket with keys that you could HEAR making scratching noises on the bare metal as I walked. I have ZERO, ZERO signs of marks at all on my Slate iPhone 5. Zero.

Why? Because I used a bumper.

This is my iPhons 4S, which I also got on launch day:

Look at the lock button, the headphone jack/mic & the vibrate toggle. Those aren't black shadows or fingerprints. That phone was so weak that it couldn't even handle being touched by fingernails day in and day out or rubber coated buttons and got scratched to hell around any exposed or moving metal surface, and that's WITH the Apple bumper.

I used these phones in the exact same way, except the iPhone 4S had a thick front and BACK screen protector. My iPhone 5 was bare exposed aluminium with zero protection yet my iPhone 4S was scuffed to hell, and my iPhone 5 looked brand new on every surface.

Slate DOES NOT have scuffing issues. It has the same issue that a black car has with showing exposed aluminium when you side swipe a parking barrier. There are no scuffing issues it's a scraping issue. The 4S had scuffing issues, the 5's surface is coated in a material that's second in hardness only to diamond. It doesn't scuff. Making a graphite iPhone 5S because the slate one has an issue with being scraped is like making a phone who's screen is tinted white so that when you crack it it's not as obvious.

I am very happy with the durability of slate.