149: Eye Phone

Explanation
In the original comic, the man at the desk was complaining about the changed UI, or user interface, of an app he had been using, which made it harder for him to do things for no good reason. An offscreen character then told him he was going to hate getting older. (The meaning of this is debated and probably outside the scope of this wiki. See the appropriate xkcd Explained article.)

This comic keeps only the first part of the dialogue, and takes advantage of the all-caps text to interpret "UI" as "Ui", and thus a character from the manga and anime K-On!, ''K-On! High School, and, briefly, K-On! College''. The author added a cleaned-up version of the xkcd Phone 4, fourth in a line of joke phones with dubious features (laughable specs, worthless apps, parts better suited to other products), and puts Ui's face on it, but with an arbitrary change: the eyes of her friend Jun Suzuki. He also altered the phone that the man was holding to be an xkcd Phone 4, pretty much just by adding the "wings".

The title is a pun between eyes and the iPhone.

The author writes:
Original xkcd strip: 1770: UI Change. Phone from 1707: xkcd Phone 4.

Transcript
Guy: Ugh, I hate when apps make arbitrary changes to their Ui. {On the screen is a picture of Ui... with Jun's eyes.}