The Last iPhone
What if you are holding the last iPhone ever made?
What if the 3G-S looked no different than the 3G?
What if the 4G looked no different than the 3G-S and so on...?
What if all iPhones looked the same from now on?
What if it didn't matter that the iPhone could be made 1/16" thinner next year?
What if it didn't matter that the iPhone could be produced in a host of different colors and metallic finishes?
What if the design could not be improved upon?
What if Apple stopped releasing new iPhones?
What if you could expand the capabilities of the iPhone infinitely through software?
What if there were a billion different apps available to download instantly?
What if you could plug-in new hardware modules to extend the capabilities even further?
What if you could send in your iPhone to have the internal components upgraded each year?
What if you subscribed to the iPhone instead of owning it?
What if the iPhone was guaranteed for life?
What if you never bought another phone?
What if Apple really decided to think differently?
(What would you be willing to pay for a Continuously-Upgraded-iPhone-for-Life? I would love to hear your answers...)
Robert Fabricant is the VP of Creative at frog design
Ha...until AT&T gets better service up here, very little.
ReplyDeletehaha yea but i kinda mean it in a more provoking way of how we use and interact with products giving them a longer use time before being shipped off to landfills... kinda a death of the form factor as well. puts me out of a job, but i think it is where a lot of new design is headed
ReplyDeleteit would do more than put you out of a job. if this model became the new mission for designers entire markets would be controlled by only a few companies. innovation for new products would no longer occur, most effort would be put into improving the current flagship technology in as many ways as possible. everything would be so different. bizarre to think about.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I was pretty much joking before (although they really do need to expand their service), but I agree with what Jake said. It would pretty much flip the design and product development worlds on their heads. I'm not even going into what it would mean economically. It really would be bizarre.
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