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Why didn’t Apple release a gold (champagne) iPad?

27th October 2013

My answer to Why didn’t Apple release a gold (champagne) iPad? on Quora

According to John Gruber: http://daringfireball.net/2013/1...

One other thing the 5S offers that the new iPads do not: a gold option. My understanding is that they tried it, and it just didn’t look good bigger. It works on the iPhone because the iPhone is so much smaller — more like jewelry.

Posted 27th October 2013 at 5:50 pm · Follow me on Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter or subscribe to my newsletter

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