The new iPhones, Google’s Pixel 3 XL have also, and also for the upcoming spring announced the Samsung Galaxy S10 will you have the right eye-catching large recess in the upper edge of the screen, called the Notch. According to common opinion, it allows the manufacturers to increase the surface area of the Smartphone Displays, without having to use the camera and different Sensors without.
That may be true. But even this very significant Change in the Design of the new and high-priced Smartphones goes beyond the purely Technical, purely Functional. The Notch makes all the other phones in the sense of the word. It shows clearly who can afford the latest Smartphone. She is the character that makes a Smartphone a status symbol.
so Far, the technical obsolescence is especially true as a big Problem. If manufacturers want to force the customer through new connections, adapters and accessories to buy at the latest after two years, a new Smartphone, even though the old one still works flawlessly and the equipment changes, for example, in the case of storage space, pixel count, the camera only marginally. So Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak recently said: “We now have to work a forced obsolescence in technology, in the case of the parts because the connections change. So the Business works. I like the not a bit.”
the effect is at least similar to the psychological or aesthetic obsolescence. Manufacturers, it is possible by to leave, even if only small Changes in the Design of the Smartphones, the devices are also optically yesterday’s work. Apple, Samsung and co. taxes expertly this process. Change the slot for the camera is vertical, it is mounted horizontally, the side speakers are installed, other Times the top and Kaçak İddaa the bottom of the screen.
The Smartphone has replaced the car as a status symbol
And many customers want to have always the latest and the most beautiful model. Even if you don’t want to admit it, often and for rather technical reasons why it is now the outrageously expensive iPhone Max must be why you have to have every two years a new device. And, of course, it scolds easier on the manufacturer than the own aesthetic self-concept.
Technical need or the characters for the New? The Notch in the newest Apple phones. Photo: Reuters
Rolf Küster, head of the Design lab at the University of Lübeck and the author of the book “principle of beauty” plays the Smartphone as a more or less clear sign of belonging to a group an important role. “In the younger Generation, it has replaced the car as the main status symbol.” With the cell phone to sort. It belongs to Apple or Samsung-stock or you don’t want to show with a Chinese cheap phone, that are interested in all of this? And with the Fairphone, and that a just world economic order is more important than technical bells and whistles.
What I expect from me? What I think others expect of me? With a Smartphone, these images can be taken of the Self to the outside world, arguing that Sexton. With a brand new 1300 Euro expensive iPhone, you would like to make their own financial power and its modernity. That one actually has the latest model, recognize the other in the Notch – a distinction of profit for the owner, all very subtle.
The Smartphone has not replaced with its staging value but only the car, but also the flashy watch. It shows the economic opportunities of the owner, but not-so-bold-obvious as a Rolex. The precursor to this development of technical devices such as the Walkman or the iPod, according to Sexton. Also, you should show that the owner can afford new technology.
in addition to these more positive concepts, to Express their personality, the latest Smartphone Sexton, however, of the shame-avoidance. If, at a meeting with business partners, all your mobile phone on the table, then an older model can be one or the other ever embarrassed. That is with a High-End device, of course, avoid.
What good is the most beautiful phone if it’s
But what is the way out of the consumer could be the case? Perhaps the most durable and beautiful Design, this has the makings of a classic. The convinced similar to vintage cars in cars-even after decades of the buyer and its value increases with the years possibly even. As nice as the majority of people feel the clear and simple lines and the so-called minimal surface design, i.e. for example curves, such as soap bubbles.
Because what is the most beautiful mobile phone is not longer in use, if it supply the manufacturer after a few years with the necessary Updates?
As a Design model for Smartphones, Apple and its head designer, Jonathan Ive, which was based in turn on long-time Braun Designer Dieter Rams and his ten principles to good Design was considered for many years. Therein it means among other things, that Design should be innovative and a product useful. More Aesthetics, comprehensibility, unobtrusiveness, honesty, and longevity. Good Design should be environmentally friendly and consistent to the last Detail. Because: Good Design is as little Design as possible.
Has the iPhone so it takes to be a Design classic? For Rolf Küster, the model 5c comes primarily out of the question. It was released in 2013, it was a bit thicker than its predecessor, it has rounded corners. And there it was in pink, light blue, green, yellow, or white. The latest iPhones, the jump in Design will, however, Olympus tend not to succeed. The famous Designer Hartmut Esslinger, who developed in the 1980s, together with Steve Jobs of Apple for his Design of the famous Apple IIc Computer, the Notch just ugly. “And ugliness, I will not accept that.”
anyone Who wants to escape the aesthetic obsolescence with an older Smartphone, but around back with the help of technical obsolescence. Because what is the most beautiful mobile phone is not longer in use, if it supply the manufacturer after a few years with the necessary Updates? (Editorial Tamedia)
Created: 29.11.2018, 18:19 PM
