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Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster, whose latest white whale is Apple-branded AR/VR, broached the subject with a reference to the wildly popular Pok?mon Go game.

Gee I guess the Associated Press was right when they said the press shouldn't accentuate Pokémon Go because it could cause problems with some ancient publishing systems.

rogifan_new said:

jbishop1039 said:

I'm pretty much over the whole camera bump thing. Kind of a nonissue at this point. That white antenna line is pretty horrific looking though. Couldn't have colour matched them a bit even? But regardless, I'll be getting the iPhone 7. I'm sure there's a lot more to this phone than a similar design. It would be kind of foolish to write something off that you know essentially nothing about.

I can think of a lot of things more horrific than the antenna lines on the iPhone. Perhaps they couldn't color match them well enough to make them blend in so they chose to go white instead. Most people have their phones in cases for obvious reasons so they never see these antenna lines anyway.

It seems like they tried to match the antenna lines color on the space gray model, but depending on the light and angle you look at it, the lines are either darker or lighter than the aluminum that surrounds them, because the reflectivity properties of plastic and anodized metal are vastly different.

So unless they paint the plastic lines with some metallic paint that has the same exact reflectivity properties as the casing, there's simply no way to match the colors.

I remember that one of the leaked gold iPhone 6 casings pictures was showing beige/brownish antenna lines, instead of the white lines in the final production model. Maybe they did try to match the colors but were displeased with the results and decided to "assume" the lines by making them white instead.