Once Black You Never Go Back!?
Why does everyone seem to hate the 16GB white version of the iPhone 3G?
I think that Johnny Ive and his team that he whips into photoshop mode as he stands by Steve Jobs’ side riding swiftly through the design department of the Apple campus on a glorious Apple branded chariot driven by beautiful white stallions (ok so maybe a little bit of poetic license there) do a fantastic job of making products that, if legal, I know some people would marry for their beauty.
The latest installment to the Apple design family is the iPhone 3G. Much similar to the iPhone 1.0, the iPhone 3G has one distinct difference. The back. On the 1.0 model the iPhone had a mostly metal back with a small black plastic bit towards the bottom.
This will probably look familiar to you all but what about the latest 3G iPhone design. The latest iPhone design has 2 different backs. Although the front is almost indistinguishable from the old iPhone the back looks quite different.
The 8GB iPhone 3G comes in a lovely dark-night black, with a White Apple shaped moon rising to a focal position at the top in the center that makes the phone seem dark and mysterious. Admittedly very gorgeous. For some reason the following has riddled me flabbergasted since I discovered it, this is the only one that everyone I have spoken to has really thought they wish to purchase.
What is wrong with the gleaming Aqua-fresh white iPhone? To be honest I really like the design. I also like the black iPhone design but to me it seems too plain. It doesn’t make you want to look at it and noticed it just seems regular. This is most likely a good thing in my neighborhood as I won’t be raided for my phone by some chavs who want to sell it on to the local cost cutters for £100 so they can feed their microwave pot noodle habit but I digress.
To me the white iPhone signifies that you are someone who wants to be different: stand out from the crowd make an impact. The tube may be packed to the rim with business men yelling at Helen, the secretary, about how the Q1 profits of the last four decades are not matching with this years and they will all be on their black plain iPhones and then there will be the person, who is different, and will stand out who skillfully whips out his/her white iPhone from its holster and be the one who is noticed.
Let your voice ring true in the comments below and tell me, What is so wrong with the white iPhone? Is it once you go black you never go back? Or is it that someone recently flung a kebab needle into the eye of the designer at the company BBQ at Apple thus resulting in the white version? Are you one of the silent majority who actually like the white iPhone let me know.
Black is always the new black…
Or is it?
Need to see it in the flesh
iBook ? White, most iPods ? White, original iMacs ? Well, ok there were some strange colours… But the 4th Gen ones were white – my MacBook ? White
My iPhone (if I do end up being able to wriggle out of my Vodafoney account) ? White
Lots of wannabe laptops lately ? You got it – White. Colours choice IS a personal thing, if I’d have had a choice, my iPod Touch would be White too. Let me put it another way – I didn’t spend nearly 18 years listing after Apple merchandise to buy a Black version of any of their products – all the other clones out there have Black, Charcoal, Anthracite & Ebony versions… Am I following the crowd? Not this time :0D
I think the white one would look cooler if the face plate was white too.
I just think that the White one is feminine, all my friends think that its awesome, which proves something about my friends (who are boys anyway) I’m getting black.