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I really don't get the external case design. Seeing just a couple letters of "iPhone" through the holes in the case looks incredibly bad.

DanitaBaires 13y ago
I was thinking exactly that. I don't think Jobs with his extreme perfectionism would've let this come out to the market. It's so "un-Apple".
- general_failure 13y ago
  There we go again with the Jobs reference.
  - freehunter 13y ago
    This is the man who wouldn't put a speaker hole in the case of his computer because it ruined the looks. He also called Google to have them change the color of their logo because it didn't fit with the iPhone style. With that in mind, would he have approved of holes in cases that only partially obscured the logo?
  - mikeash 13y ago
    Just because it's been done before in a silly fashion doesn't mean this case is silly. You need something more detailed than just "People have talked about Jobs before about completely different things, so your reference is wrong."
Samuel_Michon 13y ago
Wow yeah, that is very unlike Apple. Especially if you choose the same color case as your iPhone, the black letters really stand out. With case, it looks like ‘non’.
gfodor 13y ago
Since Jobs died there have been countless stupid things people have pointed to as evidence that Apple has changed since then. This is the first one I actually buy, this is the exact type of thing Jobs would have flipped the fuck out about.
- adventured 13y ago
  I see people already joking that the C stands for Clown Phone.
  - gfodor 13y ago
    First it was Cheap, then it was Crappy, now it is Clown? I mean, the idea that there will be a real, actual funny joke around what the "C" stands for seems only real in the sense that people are talking about how there is going to be people talking about what the "C" stands for.
    - adventured 13y ago
      I agree that there's too much absurdity around these types of product launches in general. That being said, Apple has always enjoyed lambasting the competition as being aesthetically challenged. Apple has probably more than earned the blow-back for this rather lame design.
molf 13y ago
Yeah, wow, it's pretty bad. Here's a picture from the Apple store: http://store.storeimages.cdn-apple.com/3559/as-images.apple.com/is/image/AppleInc/MF035_AV1_YELLOW?wid=1000&hei=1000&fmt=jpeg&qlt=95&op_sharpen=0&resMode=bicub&op_usm=0.5,0.5,0,0&iccEmbed=0&layer=comp&.v=1378440815696 http://store.storeimages.cdn-apple.com/3559/as-images.apple....

DanitaBaires 13y ago

I was thinking exactly that. I don't think Jobs with his extreme perfectionism would've let this come out to the market. It's so "un-Apple".

general_failure 13y ago
There we go again with the Jobs reference.
- freehunter 13y ago
  This is the man who wouldn't put a speaker hole in the case of his computer because it ruined the looks. He also called Google to have them change the color of their logo because it didn't fit with the iPhone style. With that in mind, would he have approved of holes in cases that only partially obscured the logo?
- mikeash 13y ago
  Just because it's been done before in a silly fashion doesn't mean this case is silly. You need something more detailed than just "People have talked about Jobs before about completely different things, so your reference is wrong."

Samuel_Michon 13y ago

Wow yeah, that is very unlike Apple. Especially if you choose the same color case as your iPhone, the black letters really stand out. With case, it looks like ‘non’.

gfodor 13y ago

Since Jobs died there have been countless stupid things people have pointed to as evidence that Apple has changed since then. This is the first one I actually buy, this is the exact type of thing Jobs would have flipped the fuck out about.

adventured 13y ago
I see people already joking that the C stands for Clown Phone.
- gfodor 13y ago
  First it was Cheap, then it was Crappy, now it is Clown? I mean, the idea that there will be a real, actual funny joke around what the "C" stands for seems only real in the sense that people are talking about how there is going to be people talking about what the "C" stands for.
  - adventured 13y ago
    I agree that there's too much absurdity around these types of product launches in general. That being said, Apple has always enjoyed lambasting the competition as being aesthetically challenged. Apple has probably more than earned the blow-back for this rather lame design.

molf 13y ago

Yeah, wow, it's pretty bad. Here's a picture from the Apple store: http://store.storeimages.cdn-apple.com/3559/as-images.apple.com/is/image/AppleInc/MF035_AV1_YELLOW?wid=1000&hei=1000&fmt=jpeg&qlt=95&op_sharpen=0&resMode=bicub&op_usm=0.5,0.5,0,0&iccEmbed=0&layer=comp&.v=1378440815696 http://store.storeimages.cdn-apple.com/3559/as-images.apple....