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Disguising One Apple Design Icon as Another

By Rain Noe - February 7, 2012

in Object Culture

At first I thought these were just a Photoshopped gag, but nope, these are real and for sale. A company called Schreer Delights is selling a line of iPhone cases that reference Apple's design history, printing visual elements from the original Mac, the original iMac and the original iPod directly onto the case. Each runs a little under 50 bucks.

It's kind of a weird commentary on what exactly is cool about retro styling; if you make your iPhone 4S look like a 3G, that's dumb; but make it look like the first iPod of ten years ago and that's cool.

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M. Steele

12 years ago

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Still looking. Can anyone actually order these things?
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Miguel Octavio

12 years ago

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I went to their webpage and found nothing that looks like the above, but everyone seems to be reproducing it. Seems like a gag to me.
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Len

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*Now* I have a reason to buy an iPhone... Unfortunately, given Apple's stance on protecting their trademarks, these won't last long.
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