Love that old 1st-gen iPhone. I read in the Steve Jobs bio that he thought that a stainless steel finish (like the back of the iPod line) aged really well over time. That scratches & dings in the material really added to the device’s character, and that covering them up with ugly cases stopped that from happening.
Can’t help but think that the current line of iPhones has no way to age well that I can see; there’s no finish that is really susceptible to aging like the iPod & original iPhone. Even the newer plastic-based 3G/3GS models don’t age particularly well.
(via designmind)
