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Re: iPhone Pocket

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Post by t-writescode »

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?

They didn’t buy Beats by Dre for the sound quality.

Re: iPhone Pocket

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Post by ZephyrBlu »

theF00l wrote: post #487
sincerely wrote: post #442

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in my experience as a tech guy who got into fashion and then after several years went back to not caring: Sneakers are the product category with the least differentiation in value-for-money between the high end (especially designer, but also not-designer-but-still-expensive like common projects) both in terms of aesthetics and quality/durability. You're paying $300 more for a 10% better product. Jeans, outerwear, kni…

As a tech guy who found an interest in design and ancillary fields recently, I am curious to know more. I assume leather, merino wool, cashmere do provide extra value. But other than that I have no knowledge. Eg why would 500 pants be better?

Material and cut/design.

Material is not just about quality, but rarity or uniqueness. For example, japanese denim can get very expensive in part because it's very low volume. For dress pants, it might be a particularly interesting fabric.

A lot of more expensive pants also have interesting designs or proportions that are very unique or hard to find elsewhere. There is a lot of cool stuff you can get for under $500 USD though, that is still pretty expensive.

Some examples around that price range:

- https://stoffa.co/collections/trousers/products/lavender-woo...

- https://www.lemaire.fr/products/twisted-belted-pants-bl760-d...

- https://www.blueowl.us/collections/pure-blue-japan/products/...

Re: iPhone Pocket

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Post by criddell »

999900000999 wrote: post #440
diddid wrote: post #398

I had to check the calendar to see if it was April 1. If Apple can sell a sock to put your iPhone in for 150 bucks… I wish I had the skills for that.

I just can't. This is 150$ and probably cost 5 to 10$ to make. You can ask a traditional crafts person in most the world to make you a custom one with traditional patterns and it would be significantly better. Then they can feed their family for a least a week. Apple isn't the only one who can make a giant sock!

Apple selling this validates the idea. Those traditional crafts people now have a bigger market to sell their unique variations into.

Re: iPhone Pocket

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Post by peterspath »

philipallstar wrote: post #33
peterspath wrote: post #12

Reminds me of the iPod Socks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPod_Socks

That was actually quite a nice product, though. And 6 for $29 was pretty good.

yeah, I loved them. Still have a couple of them with one of my iPods. Still going strong after all those years.

Re: iPhone Pocket

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Post by rinze »

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?

Could be AI-knitted. They lost an opportunity right there.

Re: iPhone Pocket

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Post by ireflect »

AEVL wrote: post #61

Just some trivia (and an aside): The collaboration is with Issey Miyake. Steve Jobs black turtlenecks was Issey Miyakes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jenniferhicks/2022/08/10/heres-... (As an aside, I swear by pants from the Issey Miyake Homme Plissé collection. Since investing in some pairs about 10 years ago, I have hardly worn anything else—no other pants match their comfort. The iPhone Pocket is of course ridicul…

These ones, right?

https://us.isseymiyake.com/products/hp56-jf362

Re: iPhone Pocket

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Post by mobiledev2014 »

elboru wrote: post #128
noir_lord wrote: post #79

It gets really difficult to parody apple (and some of their customers) when they do things like this.

I sincerely believe one day we'll get an official release of one of those Airpod straps: https://www.yahoo.com/news/hilarious-accessory-reminds-us-at...

Wow, that article is wild! Talk about "aged like milk." I'm not saying iPhone Pocket will be a hit as big as AirPods, but it goes to show how unimaginative early reactions can be.

Re: iPhone Pocket

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Post by pndy »

brk wrote: post #101

It might be dumb, but at least it's expensive. This looks like it would make basic interaction with your phone highly cumbersome. It also looks like an easier target for thieves.

This makes me wonder how strong this thing is because on first sight it just asks for being cut by a random thug. Same goes for this strap thing they introduced.

I thought I won't be seeing anything else more ridiculous this decade regarding phones than people talking on speaker and holding them like piece of pie and here we are. There's no practicality whatsoever - I'd rather buy a strong case, probably that would cover both screen and cameras and a good urban backpack where I can put other stuff like physical wallet and a bottle of water, some charging cable.

It's more a gadget sold as a status symbol - bit like some cases had that small rounded window for apple logo.

Re: iPhone Pocket

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Post by tavavex »

walletdrainer wrote: post #530
nathan_compton wrote: post #73

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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…

> but I really struggle to imagine any pair of pants being worth that much money unless they are lined with gold or something. It depends on how much you earn. I don’t mind spending tens of thousands on Loro Piana cashmere because it’s really nice, but at my income level the price difference between that and Zara is pretty much immaterial. Keep in mind that HN is packed with people with salaries above $1M/yr and entr…

> Keep in mind that HN is packed with people with salaries above $1M/yr and entrepreneurs with way higher income levels.

Is it really packed with those people? I know there's some, but I imagined that the average user here is probably some senior engineer in his 40s making six figures - not an executive or some industry-leading employee, and not the top <1% entrepreneur who manages to walk away with multimillion dollar profits. If that really is the common audience here, then I'm living in a whole different universe from what the average would work out to.

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