UPDATE: The trend continues, with Vodafone revealing to Gizmodo
that the (reportedly very fast) sales through their online orders have
had an 80:20 preference toward the black over the white. It seems black
is, as ever, the REAL new black!
It seems Apple’s white iPhone 3G is more white elephant than white hot. At the Optus queue, where at 5.00am the store is closing in on its 300th customer (if not there already), some in the queue have been warned by the time they get to the counter there may only be white left in 16GB.
Given the store had 500 units to begin with, and close to 200 up its sleeve, there is a very clear preference for black over white. Even at a roughly even distribution of 8GB and each of the two 16GB varieties it is sounding like the white is turning out to be very unpopular.
So if you make a play for Hunter St before you head to work, we really hope you like white… and if this trend continues, we could be seeing shortages based more on people’s rejection of the white, and others feeling like they’ve had to settle for second best.
Sean
Friday, July 11, 2008 at 6:23 AMYou could always just buy one from applemacintoshipone.com instead of waiting in a que for hours
natalie
Friday, July 11, 2008 at 10:50 AMI like the white! If I get one, it’ll be the white one.
TeqnoHaxor
Friday, July 11, 2008 at 11:53 AMAfter seeing how badly the grubby finger prints show up on the black I’ll definentely be getting a white one.
Chris
Friday, July 11, 2008 at 3:25 PMI’m going white baby!
Besides showing less fingerprints and scratches, it will look better with a coloured case should you want that, and it won’t show through your white shirts.
Jeremy
Friday, July 11, 2008 at 3:30 PMI want a white one. It’ll take me a couple months till I can get one, but it’s gotta be white. Who’s got a white phone anyway? I think it’ll stand out, even among iPhone owners.
Joy
Friday, July 11, 2008 at 6:00 PMdefinitely not the white one, black is more fingerprint, but rather than getting easily dirty even worse. So my choice wait for they(Black) become avail. if that the case…
Shiraz Salejee
Friday, July 11, 2008 at 7:10 PMI do want Black but the fingerprints thing will get to me so probably will go for white – which is still really cool. I wonder if Apple will release a newer colour/colours later this year with more storage capacity. Definitely definitely definitely would like a RED version with 32GB…… Grrrrowwwwwlllllllll!
Chris Bitmead
Saturday, July 12, 2008 at 1:30 PMStorm Trooper phone!
Angel
Saturday, July 12, 2008 at 4:08 PMI was going to get the white one anyway, so HA!
Laurence
Tuesday, July 15, 2008 at 5:47 PMNo second best for me, white all the way!!!
Kyle
Wednesday, April 22, 2009 at 7:01 PMBut who reckons that the white is more girly. I am a dude but all my friends rekon that I should get the balco becausebi am a dude. So is the white girly
Leo
Saturday, June 20, 2009 at 4:08 AMWho cares what ignorant people think? The guys that say the white iphone is girly are the real ones being girly. I thought girls are the ones that are that concerned about vanity. Besides, white and black are the most neutral colors ever. Pink, purple, or baby blue I understand… But white is girly? When did this opinion start? Weren’t all ipods white at one time? What about macbooks? Sucks for the guy who was so concerned about vanity that he shelled out more bucks for a black MacBook. To take this even further… Does this mean that straight guys shouldn’t drive white cars? What about white shirts? White undershirts? Perhaps we should never wear white shoes for the sake of looking more “manly.” Here is a fact. Girls don’t consider a man carrying a white iphone to be girly. To a straight man, its their opinion that should matter. Who cares what another bloke thinks. Let him be insecure about his sexuality. Its those same guys who secretly like the white iphone, but lack the balls to buy one. They only have to balls to call white iphone owners girly over the internet.