lulzfish
Pandora Defense Squad
Sitwon mentioned this in another thread:
My original DS is actually silver, and my laptop is silver with white trim and black metal on the bottom.
And my badass laser printer is black, but I can't really program it.
My Palm is closed at the operating system level, about as open as a stock iDevice, and has a white bezel with a blue back.
Thoughts?
And it was way off-topic, so I thought I might fork it here.Sitwon said:Also, I don't know if other people have notice it or not, but it seems to me that there is a correlation between the color of electronic devices and their "openness". Closed platforms tend to be white, open platforms tend to be black. I wonder why that is...
Examples:
iPhone <- White (sort of)
Android phones <- mostly Black
Freerunner <- Black
MacBook <- White (usually)
ThinkPad <- Black (Reasoning for calling them "open": They publish the full maintenance manuals and sell almost every part as an FRU, offer Linux on some systems)
iPod <- Mostly White
Sansa <- Black (Reasoning for calling them "open": They somewhat cooperated with Rockbox, and they sell user-replaceable battery kits for their PMP)
Nintendo DS <- White (originally)
GP2X/GP2X Wiz/Dingoo/Pandora (soon) <- Black
Nokia N770 (Linux-powered tablet) <- Black
Linksys routers (at least the GL) <- Black
Netgear routers <- White
Amazon Kindle <- White
B&N Nook (Android) <- It's got more black than white if you include the back side.
Anyways, it's not perfect (there are lots of exceptions) but it seems like a trend. I have a lot of linux devices and most of them are black(-ish) compared to the more popular closed-platform counter part.
This might be way off topic...
My original DS is actually silver, and my laptop is silver with white trim and black metal on the bottom.
And my badass laser printer is black, but I can't really program it.
My Palm is closed at the operating system level, about as open as a stock iDevice, and has a white bezel with a blue back.
Thoughts?
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