Is the white version of Apple's iPhone 4 larger than the black version? Is there anything else in the world of technology worth talking about? We can't really debate the latter, but we're certainly not the only ones discussing the former.
Apple executives are chiming in on "sizegate," or however you want to refer to the quote-unquote evidence that the white iPhone 4 is all of two-tenths of a millimeter thicker than its black counterpart.
Ernesto Barron used Twitter to send a direct message to Apple's senior vice president of product marketing, Phil Schiller, and inquire about the size differences between the two devices. According to 9to5Mac, which logged into Barron's Twitter account to verify that the conversation took place, Schiller sent the following as a direct message reply:
"It is not thicker, don't believe all the junk that you read," Schiller wrote.
And there you have it. If there was going to be an official Apple response about the relatively inconsequential issue, that's as close as we're likely going to get.
Of course, it's not entirely inconsequential. It's just that the alleged thickness difference hasn't appeared to prove significantly troublesome for anyone out there just yet. Engadget tried wrapping an Incase slider around both a black iPhone 4 and a white iPhone 4, and the site reported that a relatively simple process took a little bit more force in their attempts to slap the case over the latter.
According to TiPB, further tests on a variety of cases have yielded none that won't fit a white iPhone 4 outright. The worst that happens is that some cases, like the Incase slider from Engadget's test, fit a little bit more snugly than what one would have otherwise encountered when putting the case on a black iPhone 4.
Apple still lists both products as having a thickness of 9.3 millimeters on its Web site, and the company does note that, "Actual size and weight vary by configuration and manufacturing process."
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