Noooooo, people could then see the repairability before buying it. We can’t have that!!!
Is it just me, or are transparent cases more brittle than opaque ones? Like more prone to shattering.
Opaque ones have a wider range of materials to choose from. Plastic is pretty unlikely to break, though. Glass is the only other transparent case and that would be brittle (guess which one modern phones use)
Pretty disingenuous comparison to make. Phone screen glass is much more resistant than normal glass and is much more touch sensitive than plastic.
I’m talking about the back, they do it for wireless charging
could’ve used plastic, but I guess that isn’t “premium enough”
based lemmy echochamber post :D
I’m pretty sure the animal they used to make transparent stuff went extinct, like the one they used for the original McRib.
Okja?
Sail into that gentle sea, the majestic Translucent Bison
You are correct lmao, they do it from plastic with is made from petrol which was made from dinosaurs.
Vast majority of petrol is dead pine trees but a good effort
Fun fact: Transparent electronics are a thing because prisons require radios, TV, etc to be able to be seen inside and companies later realised they looked cool.
Why did they end up deciding it’s not cool or worth doing anymore?
The marketing team realized that society isn’t cool enough to buy enough of them to reliably profit off it.
Fashion
Thanks criminals (?)
IMO it’s more “thanks prison industrial complex”.
The prisoners are just there to satisfy the funding.
I thought they’d also test the moulds with clear plastic so it was obvious if there were internal defects due to things like poor flow into part of the mould
I have my transparent purple Gameboy tucked in a safe place. My husband had me get rid of my Nintendo 64 a few years ago, and I’m still not over it.
Who makes someone get rid of a gaming console?
Seriously, why?
It was because we were moving, donating items we didn’t use as often, and I have other gaming consoles. He’s a great husband.
Blink twice if he’s making you say that. Kidding! It was just the wording that made it sound weird. All good!
hit the husband, delete lawyer, up the gym
Delete the husband, hit on the lawyer, call the gym
I’m sorry for your loss, I hope you can find a new one that doesn’t control you like that.
Why didn’t you tell him no?
transparent purple
Atomic Purple
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Not even transparent. Colorful design, actual individuality, recognizable imagery, etc.
Now, everything have to be like “a letter or two in one color, inside a flat geometric shape in another color”, and the most exuberant logo you can find in a well known product is like the firefox icon that just moved from an actually colorful and detailed fox on a clean blue planet like earth to a 3 and a half color based orange circle and blue dot.
actual indviduality
I can’t even remember how many different shells i had for my Nokia 3310, but damn was it fun to change those around based on the mood of the day!
i like that the PlayStation 5 isn’t a literal box
actual individuality
Man if you think buying a product is what makes individuality, you’ve got bigger problems than a lack of colorful electronics.
They brought this back for the Xbox controller https://a.co/d/4PlCsxi
I got one it’s so sweet
It’ll work, just shove em full of RGB lights and they’d fit in perfect with modern builds.
steam deck has it, steam deck fixing society
To be fair tempered glass is still going strong among gaming PCs.
I miss this asthetic so freaking much…
It’ll probably make a comeback when they realize how much they can profit from the nostalgia towards it
Nothing Phone
noPhone
You can see all the working bits!
I love bits!
Bits please!
bytes even!
Bits please, can bytes even?
Yes, bytes always even.
I love when technology looked like candy. Now all we get is these boxes
I kinda want a smartphone that is made of the same plastic that a gameboy was made of. Something like the iPhone 5C, but with a rougher texture.
