Khoi Vinh:

To me, the most dis­ap­point­ing thing about this is that, as beau­ti­ful as objects in this mode can be, over time they inevitably begin to look worse than they did on the day they were pur­chased. Some objects look bet­ter when you use them more, but not Apple stuff.

I don’t know, I find this aged iPhone quite beautiful:

Unfortunately the touch dis­play stopped work­ing after only three years for this par­tic­u­lar exam­ple. So maybe there is some­thing to this not built to last the­ory, but I still use my iPhone pur­chased on June 29, 2007. I don’t use it as a smart­phone, but as just a phone it’s prob­a­bly the best there is. Another oldie is my mid-2009 17-inch MacBook Pro I use every­day as my main com­puter. The thing is a beauty to behold, still. Contrary to Vinh, I believe Apple has built beau­ti­ful prod­ucts with designs that will last the test of time. Another great exam­ple of an endur­ing design is the orig­i­nal iPod.