iPhone 5s design analysis: Apple’s attention to detail is astounding

13 years ago

“Apple launched its new flagship smartphone this past Friday and three short days later, it was safe to call it a smash hit,” Zach Epstein writes for BGR. “Apple didn’t report the mix but it said it sold 9 million new iPhones through the end of the handsets’ premiere weekend. By all accounts, the lion’s share was the iPhone 5s.”

“There are many things that make the iPhone so appealing to consumers, not the least of which are the surrounding ecosystem, the software, the user experience and Apple’s marketing machine.,” Epstein writes. “But it’s also something more — Apple’s attention to detail is unrivaled in the consumer electronics industry and its new iPhone 5s is a great reminder of that indisputable fact. Well-respected designer and Svbtle founder Dustin Curtis recently posted some initial thoughts on the iPhone 5s on his blog…”

The outer part of the new home button is exactly the same size as the Phone app and passcode keypad number circles in iOS 7, which are in turn also identical in size to the holes in the back of the new iPhone 5c rubber case. The inner part of the new home button is exactly the same size as the circle template for icons (e.g, the circle around the “A” in the App Store icon), minus the exact size of the button chamfer. That is, you need two widths of the chamfered border, plus the icon circle, to be precisely the same size as the outer part of the home button. — Dustin Curtis, Svbtle founder

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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Sarah” for the heads up.]