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Had to make sure it wasn't April 1st.
by davidmurdoch 11mo ago
Had to make sure it wasn't April 1st.
- RataNova 11mo agoIt reads like satire until you hit the part where it costs $229 and realize... nope, this is 100% real
- manarth 11mo ago> it costs $229 :o Surely it's satire! looks around in amazement
- inshard 11mo agoWhenever in doubt about your product’s acceptance, just jack up the price and keep a straight face.
- birdman3131 11mo agoIts showing as $149 for me. Which still feels outrageous for what is basically a knitted scarf.
- ryanchants 11mo agoThere are 2 different sizes.
- beAbU 11mo agoThere's a long and a short one. The long one costs $80 more than the short one. Jesus.
- btbuildem 11mo agoChecked the ULR twice
- esafak 11mo agoSuttle joke?
- area51org 11mo agoFor all intensive purpose's their one in the same.
- jagged-chisel 11mo agoWith all the things going on in the world, you also had to do this. All of it at once. You’re a monster.
- rpdillon 11mo agoWell played!
- christophilus 11mo agoI once went swimming with some intensive porpoises.
- craftkiller 11mo ago> The design drew inspiration from the concept of “a piece of cloth” I'm not convinced this wasn't an April Fools joke accidentally released early.
- kenjackson 11mo agoAnd they say you can “create your own personalized color combination”. This is just literally just the pairing of the phone color and whatever color you pick for the bag. Who calls this a customized color combination?!
- rtkwe 11mo agoSome poor marketing drone trying to find anything to put on the page for this product.
- lacoolj 11mo agoI'm still not convinced it isn't. Let's wait until black friday and re-assess
- jader201 11mo agoWhen 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 things?
- earlyriser 11mo agoYou're literally describing my thought process, but I thought it was an older April 1st joke resurfacing.
- dpflan 11mo agoAt this point, you may as well get a powerpack for a mini and put it in one of these slings, you could have a crazy powerful machine in your "sock-et" sling thing here... When the iPhone Air was just another huge phone...but thinner...smh. Apple should put up some page to check interest level in a smaller phone, and with enough interest, go manufacture it. If it is more expensive because economies of scale don't work out, but they create one that is small yet powerful, that's what I would buy at premium, because apparently compactness is a luxury.
- 0manrho 11mo agoAny 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"
- brovonov 11mo agoIt's an out of season April fools joke.
- alex_c 11mo agoDo you guys not have phones?
- dustinsterk 11mo agoI did the same. Nope, not a joke.
- jama211 11mo agolol, people on HN learning that fashion is a thing is always hilarious to watch.
- davidmurdoch 11mo agothis isn't fashion; this is status signaling. i would hate to be you.
- christophilus 11mo ago> this isn't fashion; this is status signaling TIL these aren't the same things.
- davidmurdoch 11mo agoYou're right. Fashion is about trends. Being in love with Apple products, especially without considering the need, usefulness or cost, does seem to be a trend.
- jama211 11mo agoYour takes are so hilariously lukewarm
- davidmurdoch 11mo agoLukewarm here meaning just a normal take or something else?
- jama211 11mo agoNormal and pointless. You may as well have just said “people like apple products”. Yeah, duh.
- jama211 11mo agoLol I could’ve asked an LLM to make me a typical HN user response and it would look exactly like this, well done.