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Re: iPhone Pocket

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Post by BJones12 »

stackskipton wrote: post #392
kulahan wrote: post #312

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$500 for something you might wear for a decade straight? A brand-new pair of Levis at JC Penny is gonna run you like $90 anyways. It's not that much more expensive. But also, quality has diminishing returns in basically every category. At the low end, it's extremely efficient to improve the quality of your product and charge a bit more. At the high end, you can't make any more inexpensive moves to set yourself apart,…

What in Silicon Valley salary is this statement? Median weekly salary is 1159 according to BLS. That’s 7% of weekly salary vs 43% of weekly salary.

I think it's implied that one would need to buy the cheap pants several times to match the lifespan of the expensive pants.

Re: iPhone Pocket

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Post by keybored »

45764986 wrote: post #685
nimbius wrote: post #298

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of the 193 members of the UN, only 12 (6%) recognize Taiwan as a country. the Kuomintang lost the war. its effectively the same as if the confederacy retreated to the Florida keys and China maintained a policy of deliberate ambiguity.

Why is UN recognition the metric here and not, like, idk the fact that Taiwan is a liberal democracy with the rule of law and freedom of speech and not a hypercapitalist dictatorship that disappears dissidents?

Neither are the real metric here. Taiwan is a US ally, China (mainland) is not, this is a US board. The reasoning goes backwards from that point.[1]

You have to be on the level of Israel’s aggression to lose the “liberal democracy” cover that most US allies get (or similar great titles).

[1] Enough to start a subthread with a very confident and polemic phrasing anyway. There are plenty who disagree with the OP here. I’m not saying that this place is an echo chamber on this point at all.

Re: iPhone Pocket

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Post by tomaskafka »

mgh2 wrote: post #966
vessenes wrote: post #853

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Exactly my reaction. I hate this. I hate that someone thought of it and that it exists. I have no idea if it will sell, but I was like "no way, that cannot be a real launch from Apple"

Like anything newly launched, this is a test product. Just be happy that Apple is keeping innovation and experimentation alive.

Yes, it’s a financial engineering and pricing test product.

I would much prefer them to test the technical product.

Or at least fix Xcode or SwiftUI bugs.

Okay, guess I can buy a sock.

Re: iPhone Pocket

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Post by 0manrho »

jader201 wrote: post #296
davidmurdoch wrote: post #65

Had to make sure it wasn't April 1st.

When I clicked the link, seeing it so high on the FP, I was 100% convinced they were finally re-releasing + rebranding the Mini. Then I saw what it was, and was like “ah it’s an April Fools joke — but wait, it’s not April 1st”. So now I can only assume people are upvoting it because it’s so ridiculous? Are there people (on HN) that seriously think this is a good idea/are considering getting one of these hideous thing…

Any tech focused social media site (or tech subcommunity on one) are having a fieldday poking fun and/or expressing how baffled they are.

In the tech world, this is a laughable proposition to most people even at $22.90 (though an order of magnitude more palatable at that price).

In the fast fashion world, this is pretty typical pricing for a seasonal trendy item with a "premium" brand/designer attached. Of course, that's predicated on the trend actually taking off, which isn't guaranteed. But all this social media activity around it in the tech circles is certainly boosting it's visibility to people in the fast fashion world that have iphones, which - going out on a limb here - wouldn't surprise me if it were a not-insignificant number.

Besides, at this price point vs what it is and what it costs to manufacture, even if it "flops" it's unlikely to be a big expense to write off.

Whether or not this tarnishes the Apple brand by shear ridiculousness of it remains to be seen, but Apple's general strategy in the post-Jobs era seems to be "Enshittify, just not as much/fast as everyone else and people wont want to leave even if they complain because we're still not as bas as everyone else"

Re: iPhone Pocket

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Post by thisislife2 »

fakedang wrote: post #912
thisislife2 wrote: post #887

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What I am curious about is whether women in France, Greater China, Italy, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, the UK, and the U.S (where this product is going to be launched) don't use hand-bags? If not, do they hold the phones in their hands or keep it in their pockets? In India or the middle-east, I've never seen women carry their phones in anything but their hand-bags / clutches.

Parisian pickpockets gonna salivate over this.

Had the same thought too - it's like an advertisement to phone thieves, "Look I have an iPhone!".

Re: iPhone Pocket

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Post by keybored »

yeahforsureman wrote: post #702
kossTKR wrote: post #285

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Your comment is the actual prowar propaganda though in my europeean eyes. The US is worse than China in many aspects, from forever wars to climate over colonialism to fascism and support for an ongoing extremely violent genocide on over a hundred thousand civilians, - where is China geonociding hundreds a week right now? Yeah nowhere, but the US is doing that every decade. Incredible to see this angle that 'the good…

Looks like you almost have this habit of explaining/talking about things 'as a European', particularly when bringing up USA in the context of international relations like now... I guess it's OK — I'm European too, for example — but it does seem like you're doing it to imply that your views are somehow (at least relatively more) popular among, or representative of, well, Europeans. But now that we're making such massi…

Us Euros here are all terminally online^W^W well-educated English-speaking citizens. Reader discretion is advised.

Re: iPhone Pocket

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Post by DavidPiper »

loloquwowndueo wrote: post #960
DavidPiper wrote: post #891

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I got my 13 mini battery replaced the other day, instead of upgrading. No regrets, and saved $1800.

Why did you save $1800?

A new iPhone is $2000 here, a battery replacement for my current one cost ~$200.

Re: iPhone Pocket

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Post by bigyabai »

jama211 wrote: post #903
bigyabai wrote: post #750

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> Why do y’all care so much My pension. When "jokes" like this hit the frontpage of HN, I am reminded that every dollar I put into my 401k will never see the light of day. The FTC should be mauling Apple for resting on anticompetitive laurels, but instead they're letting them grow fat and become a high-risk business. If you're not filing for retirement tomorrow, you should be considering the consequences this will ha…

I’m sorry but you can’t expect me to take you seriously if your position is a small collab with a Japanese design studio to make an iphone accessory is a sign of them tanking the economy…

It's okay, you don't have to understand the economy to be effected by it.
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