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Re: iPhone Pocket

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Post by Razengan »

bigyabai wrote: post #587
kylehotchkiss wrote: post #483

Hacker news is probably not Apple's core audience for this product. I recently saw in Southeast Asia everybody had their phone with a strap going around their neck. Which is why Apple made a first party case recently that does this. Apple's making products to cater towards international trends. People paying a lot of money for a fabric product is not unheard of, simply take a walk around the nicer mall in your area w…

Apple is a tech company. Their last two tech products (Vision Pro and iPhone Air) were colossal and unexpected failures. The industry is holding it's breath. We already know Apple can manufacture lifestyle products and market fashion to fashionable people - that's not the issue. We're starting to turn the corner on Apple's true desire to stop competing. They can't innovate like they used to with the iPad and the Appl…

Ah this year's "Apple is dOoMeD"~ get yours in while November lasts!

Re: iPhone Pocket

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Post by perihelions »

dang wrote: post #603
perihelions wrote: post #171

> "Greater China" Irredentist pro-war language, Tim Cook? I am so done with Apple. They knew what they did when they chose the words; they certainly spent thousands of hours deliberating them. This is Lebensraum with Chinese Characteristics. > "The term is often used to avoid invoking sensitivities over the political status of Taiwan.[16] Contrastingly, it has been used in reference to Chinese irredentism in national…

" Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents. " https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

With respect, this topic is of immense interest and significance to a large number of us on HN. The many engaged and enthusiastic responses attest to that.

Is it off-topic to talk about the adversarial role of tech companies in a potential war, one that would be devastating to many of us? About the entanglements of their supply chains? Have I truly, in your judgement, derailed this thread away from curious discussion? Because, this subthread looks to me comparatively thoughtful (if mildly heated), while the more narrowly-construed topic of discussion is a polyester fashion accessory.

To paraphrase Anakin Skywalker: "from my point of view, it's the iPhone Pocket that's generic and uncurious".

Re: iPhone Pocket

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Post by znpy »

umpalumpaaa wrote: post #416
nathan_compton wrote: post #73

Earlier 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…

I never knew what a difference good pants can make. I usually just bought my pants from H&M/other retailers or Amazon. I usually bought what I considered good value pants for like $30-80. I then, out of curiosity, bought pants that were 2-4 times as expensive (~$150) and it really made a difference. I never really liked the pants I had… they never fit right… they felt very uncomfortable. The new pants I got about 2 y…

> I never really liked the pants I had… they never fit right… they felt very uncomfortable. The new pants I got about 2 years ago (the more expensive ones) were very very different. Very comfy. They also had a lot of nice features that I never knew I needed but that I now want by default…

I managed to get the same experience for free by losing weight.

I lost around ~9-11 kilos over the last year and a half and went two sizes down in pants (went from european size 50 to size 46, with a few more kilos to lose until i can wear 44).

It's incredibly nice to be able to pick pretty much any pair of pants/jeans my size and have it fit pretty much perfectly.

The pants I wear are still usually either from OVS (https://www.ovs.it) or from Doppelganger (https://www.doppelganger.it/it/uomo/abbigliamento/pantaloni....) but they fit me almost perfectly.

Re: iPhone Pocket

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Post by thenthenthen »

jajuuka wrote: post #319
sneak wrote: post #267

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The CCP has Apple hostage. Their products are (effectively) all made there. China has more control over Apple than the US does, at present. They are, of course, in crash override priority mode trying to change that, but nowhere else on earth can manufacture (on average) 20,000 iPhones per hour, 24/7/365. (TBH it’s probably closer to 50k per hour in the months up to release day.) The iPhone is a Chinese product, made…

US government has FAR more control over Apple as a company. China only has control of the Chinese operations. The president is personally beefing with companies and buying stakes in them. The tariffs alone could have severely hurt Apple, but Apple bent over backwards to appease the president. The US government can simply request an app be removed and Apple and Google will do it worldwide. China does not have that pow…

Apple has to comply by Mainland rules. In addition to the supplychain that is slowly getting diversified, all Mainland customer data is handled by a co-owned (not sure %, or if it is 100% outsourced) datacenter in Guizhou.

Re: iPhone Pocket

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Post by parsimo2010 »

GaryNumanVevo wrote: post #229
parsimo2010 wrote: post #178

I’m so glad there are some people willing to pay over $200 for “a piece of cloth” which I assume is a translation issue but it sounds uninspired- who knew your inspiration for a bag could be the material that most bags are made of? I especially like how it’s sized to fit almost any iPhone ever made. So not only are you getting a bag made of cloth, for over $200 it’s not even custom fitted! Anyway, this product isn’t…

This is like complaining about the $400 Hermès band. The "iPhone Pocket" is obviously a luxury item from a high end designer, of course it's going to be expensive.

Oh, I think those are ridiculous too, but they aren’t quite the same thing. All of Apple’s Hermès bands have “Hermès” in the name: https://www.apple.com/shop/watch/bands/apple-watch-herm%C3%A...

With this you don’t even get the designer in the name.

Plus, I can see spending money for things that are nicer or specially designed. There is a huge quality difference between a Loungefly bag made out of synthetic material and a Coach bag of leather (or even Louis Vuitton, although that is a big step up in price). But this iPhone bag isn’t that- 3D knitting isn’t even that special, you could just as easily put a cheap Android phone in this bag, and I don’t think it’s going to be any more durable than a moderately priced crossbody or small purse.

Re: iPhone Pocket

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Post by RandomBacon »

kwanbix wrote: post #619
tempestn wrote: post #610

Had to double check the date here. This really is indistinguishable from an April 1 post.

$149.95 (U.S.), and the long strap design at $229.95 (U.S.) plus tax. What a joke.

It's a joke even before looking at the price. "3D-knitted" WTF is that? Isn't all knitting in "3D"?

It's a crappy handbag, and it's just for a phone.

It looks like they had to use models to advertise it because they couldn't use "everyday people" in "everyday situations" to advertise because it looks like it would be garbage in that scenario.

Is Apple expanding to the "luxury" fashion market?

Re: iPhone Pocket

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Post by tempestn »

RandomBacon wrote: post #627
kwanbix wrote: post #619

Earlier quoted context omitted.

$149.95 (U.S.), and the long strap design at $229.95 (U.S.) plus tax. What a joke.

It's a joke even before looking at the price. "3D-knitted" WTF is that? Isn't all knitting in "3D"? It's a crappy handbag, and it's just for a phone. It looks like they had to use models to advertise it because they couldn't use "everyday people" in "everyday situations" to advertise because it looks like it would be garbage in that scenario. Is Apple expanding to the "luxury" fashion market?

My favorite bit is right before that,

> Inspired by the concept of “a piece of cloth”

Re: iPhone Pocket

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Post by jghn »

tempestn wrote: post #610

Had to double check the date here. This really is indistinguishable from an April 1 post.

I've been seeing the headline going around today and have been assuming all day that it's some trending joke post. Nope!
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