I swear only Apple brings out comments where people will insinuate a whole nefarious conspiracy over phones being sold in different colors.
I'm an Apple fanboy, and I think OP is probably right? Having a distinctive colour that marks a phone as being the latest one is definitely a great marketing idea.
Yeah it’s just not nefarious conspiracy some people are just anti-commerce
99% of people put their iPhone in a case that covers up the color. This is not something anybody actually thinks.
Sometimes I tell my teenage daughter “stop inventing things to be mad about”. Good advice for HN commenters, too.
I don’t know, in both the USA and Vietnam I see a massively disproportionate amount of people with the orange iPhone 17 Pro. Personally I like the orange color, but based on how ubiquitous the color choice seems to be, is does look a lot like conspicuous consumption to me.
And even in a case now that they have those huge camera plateaus you can still definitely tell what color iPhone someone has.
Oh my god, I think you might be on to something. If you follow the evidence, it does in fact seem like people like color. Of course Apple would exploit this by offering colored phones!
Yeah I had a pink iPhone 13 for ages when my 15 pro got stolen.
Mine is in a blue case. My last case was black. Only when my cases wear out do I remember that my phone is actually white.