Since Jobs died there have been countless stupid things people have pointed to as evidence that Apple has changed since then. This is the first one I actually buy, this is the exact type of thing Jobs would have flipped the fuck out about.
I see people already joking that the C stands for Clown Phone.
First it was Cheap, then it was Crappy, now it is Clown? I mean, the idea that there will be a real, actual funny joke around what the "C" stands for seems only real in the sense that people are talking about how there is going to be people talking about what the "C" stands for.
I agree that there's too much absurdity around these types of product launches in general. That being said, Apple has always enjoyed lambasting the competition as being aesthetically challenged. Apple has probably more than earned the blow-back for this rather lame design.
Wow yeah, that is very unlike Apple. Especially if you choose the same color case as your iPhone, the black letters really stand out. With case, it looks like ‘non’.
I was thinking exactly that. I don't think Jobs with his extreme perfectionism would've let this come out to the market. It's so "un-Apple".
There we go again with the Jobs reference.
This is the man who wouldn't put a speaker hole in the case of his computer because it ruined the looks. He also called Google to have them change the color of their logo because it didn't fit with the iPhone style.
With that in mind, would he have approved of holes in cases that only partially obscured the logo?
Just because it's been done before in a silly fashion doesn't mean this case is silly. You need something more detailed than just "People have talked about Jobs before about completely different things, so your reference is wrong."