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Re: iPhone Pocket

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Post by morshu9001 »

craftkiller wrote: post #210
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…

I bought my current phone for $94 brand new. It can communicate with other devices over the air through literal magic. It has 2.5 million tiny lights, each independently controlled to be any color I want. It knows where I am anywhere on the planet. Through it, I can access an essentially infinite pool of entertainment, hail life-saving emergency services, perform monetary transactions, acquire food, etc. This piece o…

Green bubbles though

Re: iPhone Pocket

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Post by morshu9001 »

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.

That's all fine, the problem is the product looks cheap and dorky

Re: iPhone Pocket

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Post by Animats »

humpty-d wrote: post #833
jlaternman wrote: post #803

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It does initially look like a stupid and Insanely Facile fashion statement, I agree, but I think the iPod sock v2 could be one of the most practical and cleverly designed products Apple has ever released. It's clearly intended to be used as bait for phone snatchers. That iPhone dangling loose a foot below your arm in free air is just too tempting… no thief can resist. But, then! You start swinging that motherf*cker,…

> phone snatchers largely don't exist because you can't do anything with the phone without the owner's password to reset it

Nope. See this article in the Economist, "Grand Theft Global".[1]

What happens to the stolen phones? They're shipped in bulk to Huaqiangbei market in Shenzhen, there to be taken apart, reset, repaired, parts replaced, and resold to people in China who can't afford new phones.

The amusing thing is that the phones were probably originally built in Shenzhen.

[1] https://www.economist.com/leaders/2025/08/21/britain-leads-t...

Re: iPhone Pocket

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Post by throwaway290 »

shermantanktop wrote: post #377
booleanbetrayal wrote: post #177

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am wondering what you call consumption that feeds $499 designer margins on polyester like that, while so many people can barely afford to scrape by day to day.

Income inequality is a phrase that pathologizes what appears to be a universal truth. In all types of economic and political systems (after we left the forest, and probably while we were still in the forest), some people have been desperately poor while other people are not. What would be interesting is a single counterexample of sustained "income equality." That said, our current degree of inequality and the particu…

> In all types of economic and political systems (after we left the forest, and probably while we were still in the forest), some people have been desperately poor while other people are not.

citation needed. inequality was very low for thousands of years. not just "in the forest" but even with pretty large settlements.

Re: iPhone Pocket

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Post by throwaway290 »

OJFord wrote: post #613
tacker2000 wrote: post #197

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Sorry but 500 eur for polyester pants? Not even cotton?

You misunderstand, it's 20EUR for the trousers; 480 for the name printed on them. (And why you even want a name/logo printed on them...)

2 euro for cheap jogging pants, 488 euro for a license to wear them in nice places.

Re: iPhone Pocket

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Post by morshu9001 »

crazygringo wrote: post #110

It's kind of hilarious to me when the tech world collides with the high-end fashion world. On the one hand, I get how absurd this seems from a tech perspective. On the other hand, dropping a couple hundred dollars on a fashion item that will be trendy for a season among a certain group... it's no different from any other high-end fashion accessory. It's just that the two worlds so rarely overlap.

These always overlap in dumb ways. Had to microwave my $400 Ferragamo wallet to kill the NFC chip inside that kept making my phone buzz.
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