I thought this satire at first.
Steve would have fired everyone involved in this stupidity.
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#332Could this be some sort of joint venture? In other words, is Apple being paid to promote this in some way? I realize this is a “limited edition” item but it seems to me as being way off brand.
apple x designer fashion has been around a while https://www.apple.com/apple-watch-hermes/
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#333Earlier quoted context omitted.
What “the market wants” is a maximally addictive device. It’s a really low bar even if highly profitable. Bigger screens make it more exciting and addictive. Just profoundly weird to me that small manufacturers can’t make small phones because they’re small and can’t pay for it, and large manufacturers can’t make it because…(checks notes)…they’re large and don’t want to pay for it even if there’s demand.
My guess would be that all those people that wanted small phones had an iPhone SE and now all their data is locked into Apple's walled garden and that's why they will begrudgingly buy a larger phone, even though they would have preferred a smaller one. In short: Apple can get away with ignoring what those customers want.
Not hard to take your data anywhere you wish.
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#334Awww... 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.
This isn't a pragmatic item though. It's a fashion item. Similar to when Apple made the real gold Apple Watch. It's not a statement on the broader market, it's Apple associating its brand name with high fashion and prestige. They've done this for many years.
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#335Wait this thing is like $150? It's got all of like $2 worth of yarn and plastic.
A sucker is born every minute, clearly.
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#336Earlier quoted context omitted.
Maybe there's room in the world for a device people want, even if it's not the device the majority want? I mean I know Apple is just a small startup company with only a $4 trillion valuation, but maybe they could just do one thing that isn't maximally profitable once in a while.
>maybe they could just do one thing that isn't maximally profitable once in a while. They tried that this year and called it iPhone Air
Right, forgot to mention it should also be somewhat practical.
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#337Ha, I bet the muggers/phone thieves will have a field day. I find it interesting that anybody is that surprised. Remember, this is the company that overcharges for SSDs (no they're not magical super SSDs that only Apple can make)/extra ram. They charged $1000 for a monitor stand that's pretty much just a thin block of aluminium.
I guess it works as a really expensive lasso/strangulation device.
I assume the sort of person who buys this walks from the chauffeured car door to the door, not down a regular high street.
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#338Earlier quoted context omitted.
The pants cost around 500 bucks? I don't necessarily believe that a priori spending $500 on a pair of pants is irrational, but I really struggle to imagine any pair of pants being worth that much money unless they are lined with gold or something. I usually buy cheap clothes and mend them and ten years for a pair of pants isn't unusual for me. I probably haven't spent $500 dollars on clothes in a year ever in my enti…
$500 for something you might wear for a decade straight? A brand-new pair of Levis at JC Penny is gonna run you like $90 anyways. It's not that much more expensive. But also, quality has diminishing returns in basically every category. At the low end, it's extremely efficient to improve the quality of your product and charge a bit more. At the high end, you can't make any more inexpensive moves to set yourself apart,…
> $500 for something [...] run you like $90 anyways. It's not that much more expensive.
To be honest, I did abandoned school as quickly as I could and my math skills aren't that of my peers, but 5x times as much is pretty "much more expensive" for most people out there, not sure how someone can say else with a straight face. $100 vs $500 would easily be a "Can I eat properly the entire month?" decision for a lot of the population.
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#339Earlier quoted context omitted.
Maybe there's room in the world for a device people want, even if it's not the device the majority want? I mean I know Apple is just a small startup company with only a $4 trillion valuation, but maybe they could just do one thing that isn't maximally profitable once in a while.
>maybe they could just do one thing that isn't maximally profitable once in a while. They tried that this year and called it iPhone Air
I get you're referring to the profitability, but the iPhone Air is just thin, not small, which is where this conversation started.
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#340Reminds me of the iPod Socks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPod_Socks
People were home knitting them anyway at the time. Some still do.