retarded design

In this morning's browsing I came across an interesting observation.

If you don't have any white plastic on your consumer device, apparently you are some kind of retarded

This quote is from Penny-Arcade in reference to nintendo's new video game controller, dubbed by many as the magic wand, which will of course be white.

On reading the article I realised that yes indeed, people are making white devices to be cool. I am of course referring to everyone except for apple. This article on engadget, entitled "Analyst: sales weighted heavily towards black 4GB nano", tells a different story.

We're not about to knock Apple’s white plastic gear-hey, it's now officially entered the realm of generational iconic classic-but it looks like the other model in the other color-that-goes-with-everything is heavily outselling its white counterpart

Perhaps apple have the right idea. They introduce something that's new and cool. By the time the sheep catch up with them they switch to doing something old just to be original