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Marvin said:

idrey said:

jameskatt2 said:

It looks UGLY.

Red goes with a white face so much better. 

Disagree I like the red and black combination better. Too each its own. 

They could offer both options, it's just a back case switch for Apple, which doesn't take any extra time during manufacturing. The other white front models had white bands so it made sense to have a white front as the white touched the screen but this one has red bands. I would have originally thought the white front was a better fit but after seeing this, I think it looks fine in black too. The white fits better with the Product Red branding but they sell Product Red cases that have no white in them so it's not essential to have white and still be sold as Product Red.

wood1208 said:

Thanks Mr. for visually proving the best combination for the Red iPhone. Apple can introduce black and white front for Red iphone to see which combination people like/buy the most. There is no extra cost during manufacturing, assembly. Than in future, no debate necessary.

Of course it costs more to produce two different faces with the same backs. Both types of faces would need separate assembly lines, seperate inventory tracking, separate packaging, and another sales and tracking apparatus post manufacture. You guys never think deeply enough about manufacturing (!).

Second, this whole topic of red vs. white with black illustrates why the red/black combination would have been tried and rejected by Apple in the first place. Red combined with black are the signal colors of both fascism and fetishism — too hot and too incendiary for a Product Red version of the phone. This is why people, including even John Gruber, are so blindly lusting over the combination, forgetting that Apple has to tread very carefully with a product like this.

Of course they would go with Red Cross/Red Crescent red and white and not Nazi/satanic red and black. 

darkvader said:

White front = looks like crap.  No, I'm sorry, the black front would be better on all the colors.

Of course they tried the red with a black face, and they rejected it. Too dark, somewhat sinister, which is exactly why a "darkvader" would like it.

They went for gay, not fascist. Gruber agrees with you, by the way.

SpamSandwich said:

Thanks, Trump!

Thanks, Steve Jobs and Tim Cook, for giving Asian manufacturers their best OEM supply market.

smaffei said:

As Google Glass proved… Society doesn't want it.

The users were not called Glassholes for nothing.

Google Glass proved that a wearable display should not be designed by people who don't understand basic aesthetic principles like facial symmetry, and whether something looks creepy or not.

The left-brained geeks at Google made something suitable for sinister androids, not humans. 

tokyojimu said:

If Apple thinks will will prevent China from destroying their business in that country, I'm afraid they are pouring money down the drain. China has long publicly appealed to its citizens not to buy Japanese products, and just this week they are stoking hatred of Korea and closed hundreds of Korean department stores. One wrong move on the part of the U.S. and Tim's dreams of long-term megaprofits in China are gone in a flash. 

So don't make wrong moves. 

I suspect Tim Cook's long strategy has less to do with exploiting China for profit, and more to do with "making great products to improve [Chinese] people's lives." That would be the only way to legitimately proceed with this different-but-equal culture, and Tim Cook is way smart enough to proceed on that clear-headed, honest basis.