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Re: iPhone Pocket

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Post by AlexandrB »

fxtentacle wrote: post #63

Awww... I was so much hoping for an iPhone that will fit into my pocket. The 1st iPhone SE was the perfect form factor. But no, Apple's phones just had to grow and grow and grow like cancer ... In my opinion, the fact that Apple is now selling a bag to carry your oversized phone around in, is an admission that they failed to make phones that are convenient to carry.

The worst part of this is the UI bloat that came along with it. Since there's no longer a need to consider smaller phones, everything got bigger and more padded also worsening the information density on larger phones.

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Post by kenjackson »

craftkiller wrote: post #156
davidmurdoch wrote: post #65

Had to make sure it wasn't April 1st.

> The design drew inspiration from the concept of “a piece of cloth” I'm not convinced this wasn't an April Fools joke accidentally released early.

And they say you can “create your own personalized color combination”. This is just literally just the pairing of the phone color and whatever color you pick for the bag. Who calls this a customized color combination?!

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Post by criddell »

ngruhn wrote: post #68
fxtentacle wrote: post #63

Awww... I was so much hoping for an iPhone that will fit into my pocket. The 1st iPhone SE was the perfect form factor. But no, Apple's phones just had to grow and grow and grow like cancer ... In my opinion, the fact that Apple is now selling a bag to carry your oversized phone around in, is an admission that they failed to make phones that are convenient to carry.

I share the frustration. But apparently small phones don't sell.

> small phones don't sell

It's all relative.

If Google sold five million iPhones Mini it would be considered a smash hit. But because it's Apple it's considered a flop because of the ridiculous sales numbers of their other models.

Re: iPhone Pocket

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Post by stetrain »

throwforfeds wrote: post #64
moribvndvs wrote: post #60

I was out with my young coworkers and was absolutely baffled to see a bunch of them with slings for their phones. That was the only time I’d heard of such a thing until now. I kinda thought I’d drunkenly hallucinated it.

I was just talking to my wife about this, literally 5 minutes ago. I just moved from the 13 mini to the Air and am hating that it doesn't comfortably fit in my jeans, to the point where I might go return it today. My young cousin was wearing her iPhone on a cross body sling, and I was commenting that we've gotten to the point where the phones are so big that you need bags or extra things to carry it comfortably.

For the demographics whose mainstream clothing includes no or very small pockets, this has been true for many years.

Re: iPhone Pocket

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Post by ehzb2827 »

stavros wrote: post #116
stetrain wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a high-end fashion partnership, like the Hermès watches. You could probably argue that high-end fashion is in a constant state of jumping the shark.

But the Hermes watch was at least an Apple watch with some Hermes branding and accessories. This is just... a sock.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication -- Leonardo da Vinci

Re: iPhone Pocket

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Post by akersten »

azmenak wrote: post #141

Seeing all the nerd brains of HN implode trying to understand this. This is what happens when the tech and fashion worlds overlap for a moment.

No one can convince me a $229 sock to hold your phone is comprehensible to the average person, nerd brain be damned
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