What the iPhone Refresh Means for Future Hardware Designs (if anything)?
After the release of the first iPhone and the iMac a herd of design experts of mostly unknown origin explained to us in great depth how these design decisions guide us to future designs and how well thought out and unified the design approach is, especially predicting a move of the MacBook to aluminum shells and possibly a glass plate and black bezel on the MBP (hopefully not, but that is a different story).
Now that plastic and even white is back, these sources are rather quiet. What is everybody's best guess? Have all these assumptions been plain wrong? Did Apple really have these plans and may have scrapped them to get the iPhone's price down as far as possible? Has the iPhone been "degraded" to a consumer item and it's design does not really say anything at all about other products? Will the MacBook remain plastic and what will happen to the iMac? Will we see a "pro" model of the iPhone?
Too many questions I know, but I have the slight feeling that before the iPhone introduction everything seemed to be crystal clear and it is no longer...
Now that plastic and even white is back, these sources are rather quiet. What is everybody's best guess? Have all these assumptions been plain wrong? Did Apple really have these plans and may have scrapped them to get the iPhone's price down as far as possible? Has the iPhone been "degraded" to a consumer item and it's design does not really say anything at all about other products? Will the MacBook remain plastic and what will happen to the iMac? Will we see a "pro" model of the iPhone?
Too many questions I know, but I have the slight feeling that before the iPhone introduction everything seemed to be crystal clear and it is no longer...