It was challenging,” Apple senior vice president Phil Schiller said during a joint interview with CEO Steve Jobs on Wednesday. “It’s not as simple as making something white. There’s a lot more that goes into both the material science of it–how it holds up over time…but also in how it all works with the sensors.”
Schiller said that it turned out there were a lot of unexpected interactions between the color of the device and various internal components. Also, like fair-skinned humans, white iPhones need a little more UV protection from the sun.
“We thought we were there a year ago, or less than that, when we launched the iPhone 4, and we weren’t,” Schiller said. By waiting, he said that the company was able to deliver a product that will live up to expectations.
Offenbar dachte Apple im Jahre 2010 ein weisses iPhone sei grundsätzlich das Gleiche wie ein schwarzes, war dann aber von den Problemen überrascht und musste verschiedenste Dinge neu designen. Bereits jetzt ist klar, dass das iPhone 4 in weiss einen neuen Annäherungssensor und ev. auch ein verbessertes Antennen Design besitzt.
