“It Looks Like My Stove” – Social Media Users Cringe As First Images Of “iPhone 12” Leak

Fears the Trump Administration mightinadvertently kill Apple’s China business by banning US companies from working with WeChat have mostly abated, not that they ever really had much of an impact on Apple’s share price. As the ‘work from home’ frenzy drives Apple’s market cap north of $2 trillion (cementing the consumer tech giant’s status as ‘the world’s most valuable company’), Wall Street analysts are apparently too preoccupied with the fate of the app store to worry too much about sales projections for the upcoming handset upgrade cycle.

And with September just around the corner, the first images of the upcoming ‘iPhone 12’ have leaked, and they’ve sent Twitter aflame with laughter as users bashed the four-camera layout that gave the phone’s facade a sort of eerie aspect.

Some even complained that the arrangement triggered their “trypophobia,” an irrational fear of holes drilled in the following pattern (sufferers claim that images like this one make them nauseous).

By Monday morning, users got “iPhone 12” trending on Twitter before the official launch, which isn’t expected for a few more weeks.

Apple RELAX I JUST GOT THE 11 Smh pic.twitter.com/aGAkoBJ1GF

— INSTAGRAM @S.GRATE_ (@sgrate__) August 23, 2020

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iPhone 11 users after iPhone 12 news… pic.twitter.com/ve3V7gNDDf

— 🐱🎶👅🎤 (@D1aphanousBTS) August 24, 2020

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The same ones clowning the iPhone 12 design will be the first in line to buy it pic.twitter.com/oRQ7CFFF32

— Brent Burns (@brentwood03) August 24, 2020

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THATS LITERALLY MY STOVE IM SOBBING WHY DOES THE IPHONE 12 LOOK LIKE THAT pic.twitter.com/sarUrjXSyD

— ⛓🖤 AJ 🖤⛓ (@aydenzabelle) August 24, 2020

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The iPhone 13 showing up two months after the iPhone 12 with 6 cameras and a working stove pic.twitter.com/kuAg5gqZEG

— ✨🌞 (@jcmg2800) August 24, 2020

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Damn the iPhone 12 is kinda ugly…… still gonna but it though pic.twitter.com/lndfNBwm5e

— BLM (@cowilcox95) August 24, 2020

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I was hoping the iPhone 12 would look different but all it did was trigger my trypophobia

— cam🧜🏽‍♂️ (@pradanotes) August 24, 2020

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Possibly the new #iPhone iphone 12 has 4 camera.

Trypophobia triggered pic.twitter.com/HOmuyU0hm1

— T H A N D O K A Z I (@ladynamedthando) December 17, 2019

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But this isn’t the first time users have lambasted a new feature, whether it was killing the headphone jack, or the home button. And if the past is any guide, we imagine Apple will accept this criticism with the same inscrutable equanimity it has shown while introducing past models.

Everyone: the cameras on the iPhone 12 Pro and Pro Max look like a stove top

Apple: pic.twitter.com/7oUlV0myZx

— Kathiana (@iconkathiana) August 24, 2020

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