What killed clear shell electronics?
Taste
The 21st century
>>54679036
Trends. But it's not as if it can't be brought back. 2005 was the year of white. Apple, Microsoft X box products was white then black became the colour.
fug, i want one of those digivices but they're expensive as fug and there ain't any good chinese clones
>>54679091
now its gay ass ROSE GOLD
>>54679054
>It's the 21st century
>>54679036
People realized that immobile circuit boards aren't very interesting to look at.
>>54679205
There is nothing wrong with rose gold.
>>54679205
They're luxury products. Poorfags wouldn't understand
>>54679282
9 out of 11 terrorists agree.
>>54679236
>2106
>Posting women bashers. Scum..
>>54679036
Minimalism has been really popular for the last 15 years. Everyone wants their technology to be visually featureless. Transparent cases where you can see the complex circuitry is the opposite of that. I think what happened is the dirty look of cyberpunk got old so scifi movies flipped 180° and real life followed.
>>54679036
clear shells were used a lot when we had nokia brick phones with exchangeable covers.
until the moto razr released and then the sony ericsson brick phones with better camera and then nokia n95 and that shit. that's what killed custom clear see through cases!
>>54679050
literally my first thought
Sunlight
>>54679971
I think minimalism is the default, but we had minimalism forced onto us as a species for hundreds of thousands of years, we went a bit nuts in the 20th century, and we're just now slowly returning to normal.
Personally, I try to be minimalistic, because otherwise I just end up living in a sea of clutter.
>>54679036
Good design
it's harder to pull off
>>54679036
>>54679050
>>54679054
>>54679271
>>54682375
the fun police
>>54682264
>Minimalism is the default
>>54682427
Hello, shit taste
>>54679236
But it is. 2000-2099 is 21st because 0-99BCE was the first, under the system
I'm a little nostalgic for stuff like this, the old G3 iMacs too.
>>54682498
>giving an example the likes of which 99.99% of the contemporary world would never have been able to experience
>>54682498
Also,
>>54682264
The default is ornate.
Minimalism is for massproduction. More detail just brings a higher chance visually displeasing flaws. Smooth metal, ceramic, plastic, glass, are perfect for that.
>>54682764
Also, ornate works brings on a heavier workload without actually improving practicality of the item. So you just pay more for the same but potentailly prettier. I mean nice knife handle doesn't actually improve the quality of the nice. A red car doesn't automatically go faster than other cars and so on.
>>54682764
But we have presses and dies to to stamp out ornate things at a mass scale. We have moulds and patterns. We've had these things for quite a while, too.
>>54682504
>freeze scumbag this is officer buzzkill youre under arrest for see through consumer electronics crime
>>54682411
make the shielding clear and wa-la!
>>54682878
>wa-la!
jesus is /g/ full of cretins?
>>54682829
Ornatation is useless when the scale of mass production is either on that of a house or on a cell phone. Either you just spend way more on the house than you actually need to, or the cell phone just ends up looking ornate but since it's a mass produced model you end up with an item that only appears unique but you can very likely meet people with identical products. It's like wearing a t-shirt and you see people on the street wearing the same t-shirt and you might go "hey nice shirt" or just realize hat you futile attempt at standing out through clothing isn't unique.
Being ornate for the sake of being ornate is not the case, the key is that your object is ornate in a unique way.
>>54682878
It's Voilà you uneducated swine
>>54682732
What if they're on mobile?
It's either quote all or nothing.
>>54682559
2001 - 2100 actually
>>54682987
>It's either quote all or nothing
>>54682987
>What if they're on mobile?
Works as well.
>>54682987
whoops sorry
>>54683007
>>54683013
>>54683021
Maybe on browser?
Because on clover I would have to remove what I don't want.
>>54682498
that's so ugly
>>54683047
wow you're telling me a mobile application developed by a 4chan user is shit?
that's weird. let me try and wrap my head around that. i'll be back when i've come to terms with this.
>>54679036
IC packages and shielding, there's nothing to look at anymore.
Don't know I think the stainless design and the iPhone 2g may have been a factor.
Me and my sister had GBA that was transparent and I still get a smile when I look at it.
Also to the person that told me to shove the game cartage up my ass in the /CSG/ I have not forgotten .
OLO
(o)
Time.
>>54682411
I agree with this. A lot of phones are just too compact. Half the reason transparant looked good, was that it didn't actually reveal a lot.
>>54679036
The fact that they need to hide that everything is held by glue nowadays
>>54679036
Wouldn't UV light fuck up modern circuits?
>>54683321
shove that gba up your arse
>>54683564
?
Light can fuck up circuits?
>>54685109
https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/xenon-death-flash-a-free-physics-lesson/
>>54685493
>stick shitty, low quality chink shit in your board
>light affects it
Brah.
Apple, as usual.
>>54685505
Don't complain to me about it, I'm just answering the question.
>>54679236
>>54679726
retards lol
A B S O LU T E P R E T T I E S T
>>54685493
this will also happen if you tear the tin can off an old transistor
you can detect all kinds of weird particles IIRC
>>54685709
Also, that's basically how solar panels work.
Bare semiconductors in the light tend to do this
>>54683003
thank you. this is one of my more autistic pet peeves, but one of my favorites.
>>54683003
>>54685805
No, it's 2000 - 2099.
They live still in Japan
>>54679726
>6201
Posting the wrong year
Designers realized that by making things as plain and uninteresting to look at as possible, they could sell it as "minimalism" and avoid having to take bold design risks that people might find distasteful.
Now you have people who defend minimalism as the only acceptable design aesthetic, because they're so unimaginitive that anything with distinguishing characteristics, they find ugly.
>>54679971
>minimalism
>decorative shit
pick one
