Well, I'm not at the leading edge but I finally decided to get sort of caught up to telephone technology and got myself an iPhone 5. Quite a nice technological doodad. And even though the YouTube drop test shows it to be well nigh indestructible, I decided to get a case anyway. And it's a case that some will hate and some will love, that's for sure. But if you've got an appreciation for the quality of the past married to the technology of today, you might just like it. I sure do.
It's called a BookBook and it's made by a way cool company named Twelve South. So called because they've only got twelve employees and they're located in the South. Heh. The first one in my family to purchase one was my cultured son. It looked nice and smelled good (seriously). Then I got my iPhone and, of course, got a BookBook for myself. I was oh so very taken with the packaging and presentation, not to mention the object itself. So when my wife decided she wanted one as well, I took the opportunity of creating a little photographic striptease.
So let's start. Here's what the little item looks like when you pick it up from the store:
The ones that will hate that case — which I think is absolutely beautiful — are also the ones that will explode in disgust over the skeuomorphic design of the iPhone’s icons. These are the ones who will hold up the execrable Windows 8 “Modern UI” as a paragon of minimalist virtue. Yuck.