I was tweeting with friends about the beauty of Apple's first generation designs. Although we agreed that the iPhone 4/4S design is the sweetest iPhone design, we also appreciated the first gen gorilla-back iPhone. Much better than the plastic back 3G, 3GS that followed. The first iPod is a work of art, and I'd like to add to that the one and only iPod mini (I still miss my stolen silver one), the first iPod nano, the first iPad, and the one and only G4 Cube. Yes, there are exceptions. The second gen sunflower or E.T. head iMac is arguably better designed than the Bondi Blue iMac. Though those original iMacs make for better fish tanks or objets d'art (bustin' out the Francais, yo!).
Eh hem, sorry about that.
Anyway, the original iMac (love it or hate it) remains iconic today, so my point still stands. Everyone's clamoring for an all new iPhone 5 design but how much do you want to bet that it's going to look like a miniaturized version of the iPad 2? There's a point where cost and features trump form and there's only so much minimalism that even Apple can do before the aesthetics suffer.
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