Why has the color of (PRODUCT)TM phones changed?

That [is not a desirable state of affairs in a free country]*.

* Plural of "draw into the mouth by contracting the muscles of the lip and mouth to make a partial vacuum."

EDIT: update from my wife; I explained, "They change the colors every year" and she opined thus:

"Aargh", that's aargh as in "oh, I see" as opposed to, "aargh" as in pirate.

At least for those of us who are trichromats it is a completely different color. I didn't bother to pantone match it; it is self evidently different even though I used a digital camera (the results are approximately correct, within the limits of digital photography color matching).

It might be that your monitor is defective; the hue shift IRL is towards orange, which is a yellow shade of red, which is why I said the shift was to green (green is the primary in this context), so it is not just PINK (which is a saturation shift of red), it's a yellow shade of pink, itself a white shade of red; a pale version of the original color.

Snarky, snarky, snarky; I was quoting my wife, hence the CAPITALS. The 12 is unsaturated. I admit had the 12 actually been a true pink I would have probably argued in its defense. Had it actually been green I would have done so also, but as it is it is just a horribly bright puce.

Curious that everyone wants to argue about the color (cyan anyone?) and not about the change; the fact that Apple advertised a phone as one color, one they had established with the XR and maybe before, and sold one of another. I asked a question about the change, I know way too much about color to ask about color.

You are apparently an Apple lawyer, I suspect unpaid; your lawyerly argument lacks merit (see the picture below, I did use your own argument, your picture). The point is it was a color named "PRODUCT(TM)" - there was no other identifier of the color so far as I can see (be a lawyer, find the precise place where Apple define the color; not the place you quote, see my refutation below). Apple changed it, gratuitously; we don't care enough to return the phone, we've already done that with the mini (which turned out to be illegible).

So colors aren't well defined if you are looking at them on the Web; check out any number of Amazon retailers who are forced to say "it might not be exactly this color" (normally paraphrased in a limited explanation of why colors on a monitor change with the colors outside the monitor). So here we are, wait for it, wait for it, duh duuh:

Yeah, right. If anyone replies to this without reading these paragraphs I will, for certain, report them as Troll. So I tried my best to match the illumination (which is supposedly to be a 6500K flashlight) to the monitor (which is set to Dell's "standard" so is 6500K; I admit I didn't get that detail in the picture, but you can see the ID of the monitor.) So we are matched, right? It doesn't matter what else happens outside that; the monitor and the flashlight are in sync as is the luminance level.

So we see an XR which I think ended up matched accurately and a 12 which is decidedly more orange.

But wait; this is the point to which you must read if you want to reply without me IDing you as a troll... This isn't the point; the point, as proved by the post to which I am replying, is that the color changed.

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