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Blame YouTubers/Influencers for that, they constantly push for uniformity with "comparisons". Samsung released a new phone? Top phone YouTubers will quickly compare how they like the feel of iPhone or Pixel vs Samsung and how it holds on their hand, how it's matte, how it's sized and companies want to win those points. So satisfying them is a priority. So we end up with matte black, thin, rectangles.

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This just signifies that we have got the design right. I don't go out and compare this years models of bicycles, because the design has been perfected for decades. The ones selling now look the same as my 5 year old bike.

Rapid change and improvement just means an immature product.

But the bicycle design wasn't determined by influencers. It was defined by years of design improvements by multiple innovators. Influencers bought us phones with glass backs, no battery, non existent headphone jack. Weird hole on the screen, curved edges, camera bumps. The design is definitely not right, okay they didn't bring it but they normalized it so much that companies are in pursuit of their requirements.

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