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Re: iPhone Pocket

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Post by chaostheory »

bborud wrote: post #745

Objects have to earn the right to exist. We make so much stuff. Most of it unnecessary. Stuff that will soon be cluttering your home and then end up in a landfill. This is not a product that deserves to exist. It is not made from quality materials ( Nylon (14%), Polyester (85%), Polyurethane (1%)). It is not innovative. It is questionable whether it solves its primary use case particularly well. What makes this parti…

> Objects have to earn the right to exist.

Yes, and that is what a free market is for

I don’t understand this either but you and I are obviously not the target market

Re: iPhone Pocket

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Post by WheatMillington »

bborud wrote: post #745

Objects have to earn the right to exist. We make so much stuff. Most of it unnecessary. Stuff that will soon be cluttering your home and then end up in a landfill. This is not a product that deserves to exist. It is not made from quality materials ( Nylon (14%), Polyester (85%), Polyurethane (1%)). It is not innovative. It is questionable whether it solves its primary use case particularly well. What makes this parti…

None of that matters, Apple drones will buy it.

Re: iPhone Pocket

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Post by victor22 »

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…

Who cares, Steve would have hated to sell a sock for $200, really makes you think how much they pay the chinese for the iphone

Re: iPhone Pocket

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Post by bvan »

Pretty much every other Apple product has appeal to every demographic: young, older, professional, student, all walks of life - as long as you can afford it.

This product has a very narrow and limited target customer base.

I’m not going to walk into the office with my fuchsia Apple sock around my shoulders.

Re: iPhone Pocket

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Post by digitcatphd »

bborud wrote: post #745

Objects have to earn the right to exist. We make so much stuff. Most of it unnecessary. Stuff that will soon be cluttering your home and then end up in a landfill. This is not a product that deserves to exist. It is not made from quality materials ( Nylon (14%), Polyester (85%), Polyurethane (1%)). It is not innovative. It is questionable whether it solves its primary use case particularly well. What makes this parti…

Beatifully said and you are right. I will get mine on Temu.

Re: iPhone Pocket

#868

Post by amarant »

taylodl wrote: post #703
simianparrot wrote: post #677

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

Me too! I thought it was an announcement for an iPhone that actually fit in your pocket! The phones are too damned big!

No No, your pockets are too small

-Apple

(See "you're holding it wrong" for an historical reference)

Re: iPhone Pocket

#869

Post by Telaneo »

So phones have gotten so big they nessecitate a whole new type of clothing to carry around.

Maybe, just maybe, the solution is a smaller phone?

Re: iPhone Pocket

#870

Post by Telaneo »

ozim wrote: post #844
andrepd wrote: post #823

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Has there even been a decently-sized phone since the Sony Compacts? And the iPhone minis of course.

Flips? I don’t feel like buying one but those look like they fit pockets easily.

They fit your pockets, but they're just as bad in the hand as any large phone is.
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