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Re: iPhone Pocket

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Post by mmooss »

nathan_compton wrote: post #73
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…

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…

They save you from buying 10 pairs at $100. They not only are durable, including not fraying, etc., but keep their form and color, and they have a beautiful form and color to begin with. You get what you pay for (if you buy the right $500 pants).

Someone outside IT might say, why pay for a Macbook when you can buy a $100 Chromebook? Why use Vim or Emacs when you can use Notepad/TextEdit (though those all cost the same!).

Re: iPhone Pocket

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Post by ssharp »

tempestn wrote: post #610

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

I get the sentiment but was this actually some big launch announcement? When I look at the store online, you have to dig a bit just to even find the product.

Re: iPhone Pocket

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Post by lvl155 »

I do wish they sold a double-side magsafe that you can put on your shirt/jacket so I can just clip my iPhone on my chest. Pro Max is too big for my pockets.

Re: iPhone Pocket

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Post by volkl48 »

fxtentacle wrote: post #83
rekoil wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wish the iPhone 12/13 mini had been a few mm thicker for a bigger battery, and had been in the Pro class of devices. As it stands they didn't have a good enough battery to last a day, and most people interested in smaller devices had probably just picked up the new SE that was released just half a year earlier.

I believe the issue is that with Jobs gone, Apple's design team is now apparently unable to continue their job. Instead of developing their own UI paradigm for small screens, they keep copying from Google Pixel both the UI ideas and the screen size. And now that they ran out of useful ideas, they turned everything transparent. Why make the iPhone look more like Apple Vision when people so obviously hate the latter? […

As someone who's spent a while playing with one (that I didn't buy) and who hasn't picked it up off the shelf in months:

I don't think most users were returning it because they hated the UI or even the device in the usual sense. (There are certainly issues I could detail, but they don't feel like the core problem).

The core problem is just that it just doesn't really....accomplish anything.

Once you get past treating it like an expensive Google Cardboard ("neat tech demo") - it's very hard to figure out what the point of the thing is. What problem does this actually solve for you/what thing is it actually better to use this for than other existing solutions.

Extremely high price tag with no "killer app"/function that makes anyone who tries it "get it" quickly and want one, is a pretty impossible sell.

Re: iPhone Pocket

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Post by ttkari »

Oh my... I'm just left wondering if Apple releasing a giant sock for your phone equals to the proverbial moment of your taxi driver giving you advice on stocks to buy.

Re: iPhone Pocket

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Post by rvba »

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.

I imagine that a lot of poor people will pay this, in order to try to show off as rich

Re: iPhone Pocket

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Post by simianparrot »

I got excited for a moment, thought it was a new line of iPhone Mini -- you know, the actual handheld iPhones. I still use my 13 Mini.

This was the biggest letdown of clicking a link since my last Rickroll in the early 2000's

Re: iPhone Pocket

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Post by jsheard »

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?

> Is Apple expanding to the "luxury" fashion market?

They've been flirting with it for a while, remember they made a $17,000 solid gold variant of the first gen Apple Watch (which is no longer supported lol), and today they sell luxury Hermès edition watches at a 2-3x premium over the regular titanium models.

Re: iPhone Pocket

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Post by rvba »

mmooss wrote: post #671
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…

They save you from buying 10 pairs at $100. They not only are durable, including not fraying, etc., but keep their form and color, and they have a beautiful form and color to begin with. You get what you pay for (if you buy the right $500 pants). Someone outside IT might say, why pay for a Macbook when you can buy a $100 Chromebook? Why use Vim or Emacs when you can use Notepad/TextEdit (though those all cost the sam…

Someone in IT will probably say "why pay for a Macbook, which is a toy, without even real MS Office, when you can buy a chinese configuralble laptop for same price that will have 256gb of RAM and a 5090"

Re: iPhone Pocket

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Post by [deleted] »

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?

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