“Back in 2010, 3G device sales in North America outpaced China and India by 185 million vs. 114 million. That’s when the collective taste of American consumers still mattered a lot. But in 2013, China and India will outpace North America by 256 million vs. 215 million,” Tero Kuittinen writes for BGR. “[The] smartphone market is now defined by Asian tastes. And since they love yellow gold in China, that is a good color for a phone, regardless of whether or not it’s deemed tacky by Americans.”
“This is precisely the right moment to put out a garish yellow gold phone — the zeitgeist is shifting. The 1980s don’t look so bad with the current unemployment and wage growth statistics,” Kuittinen writes. “Apple sometimes has the knack of taking a nascent trend and banking it.”
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MacDailyNews Take: It won’t be garish. Champagne gold done right is not garish — and we know from the white iPhone 4 debacle that Apple, when being run correctly, will do it right or not at all.
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