Want the iPhone 5? You Can't Have It
Apple has decided that it's pretty much perfected the look of the phone -- its glass-and-metal look stunned most people when it was released. Apple's lead product designer, Jonny Ive, noted that during a promotional video when discussing the iPhone 5: "When you think about your iPhone, it's probably the object that you use most in your life. It's the product that you have with you all the time. With this unique relationship people have with their iPhone, we take changing it really seriously. We don't to just want to make a new phone. We want to make a much better phone. iPhone 5 is the result of this approach."
Those who were looking for something "insanely great" (to borrow a phrase from Steve Jobs) were bound to be disappointed, because Apple has already given it to us. The design of the iPhone isn't going to change much for iPhone 6, 7, etc. It is what it is because Apple doesn't change things for the sake of change. The company perfects something, then sticks with it.
As Apple said in its promotion: "The best thing to happen to iPhone since the iPhone."
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--Written by Chris Ciaccia in New York
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