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Is it only me who finds the flat sides and glass back "aesthetically" unpleasing... The 3GS looks a tad better to me than the 4 (ofcourse they aren't deal break
by awa 16y ago
Is it only me who finds the flat sides and glass back "aesthetically" unpleasing... The 3GS looks a tad better to me than the 4 (ofcourse they aren't deal breakers, but wanted to know since Gruber seem to like them)
- ugh 16y agoHave you seen one in person? I think the new iPhone doesn’t look so good in photos (at least not Apple’s) but it looks quite great in person. No contest with the old plastic thing.
- treblig 16y agoCompletely agreed. The plastic felt cheap. This feels like a Rolex.
- mrshoe 16y agoI think the iPhone 4 gives the original iPhone a serious run for its money in the industrial design department. The 3G and 3Gs weren't even close, in my opinion. A rounded blob of plastic isn't very exciting.
- apu 16y agoExcept this is exactly what was said about the iPhone when it came out -- that it was amazingly designed. If good design is supposed to be timeless, how can once-beautiful pieces of design now be considered as "rounded blob[s] of plastic" that "isn't very exciting"? This is the kind of fanboyism that really turns off a lot of us. Thought experiment: if Apple came out with a new phone with the exact design of some previously maligned older phone, I'd be willing to bet that most Apple fans would immediately claim that this "new" design is amazing and perfect and all the other superlatives that are pitched about...
- bbatsell 16y agoHe's contrasting the "rounded blob of plastic" (the design of the 3G and 3GS) with the original iPhone design, which had a mostly-metal flat back, and, as you acknowledged, was heralded at its release.
- axod 16y agoI agree, the 4 looks like a step back. Maybe to a 70s type of design. Looks cludgy to me.
- elbrodeur 16y agoI have to disagree. Nothing about the design harkens back to the 70's, except for maybe the earliest increases in adoption of minimalism. Maybe. If you line this up next to their current line of products it fits right in.
- watmough 16y agoIt's taken me a few days to 'get used' to the 4. I love the thing, it has a Bang and Olufsen vibe to it.
- ergo98 16y agoApple defines beauty. Accept that as the baseline and you'll realize how exactly what was maligned before is now the new benchmark.