3 years later (2007) and we get the first iPhone, which still looks relatively OK to modern eyes.
I'm thinking older iPods will age about the same as 1970's mall designs, with the extravagant plastic and overblown wall art.
I'm thinking older iPods will age about the same as 1970's mall designs, with the extravagant plastic and overblown wall art.
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If I recall right they are next to each other in MoMa.
The technology is quite outdated but (contrary to 70s malls) the aesthetics are not.
(Some Apple designs do age. The early plastic iMacs but not the eMac or the lampshade iMac or the Cube. I also think that the fat iPod nano and pretty much every other iPod nano won’t age well. I think that the early iMacs were never intended to be timeless. They were designed to be flashy, to show that Apple is still alive.)
I wonder if it's because we're exposed to these designs, and that's why they look old? (We're familiar with them, we know they're old, therefore they feel old). It'd be interesting to see two models of something that you're not very familiar with, and see if the same phenomenon occurs.