"The design drew inspiration from the concept of "a piece of cloth"

top 50 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] 175 points 8 months ago* (6 children)

Inspired by the concept of “a piece of cloth,"

Looks at URL.

Born from the idea of creating an additional pocket, its understated design fully encloses iPhone, expanding to fit more of a user’s everyday items.

“The design of iPhone Pocket speaks to the bond between iPhone and its user, while keeping in mind that an Apple product is designed to be universal in aesthetic and versatile in use,” shared Yoshiyuki Miyamae, design director of MIYAKE DESIGN STUDIO

Looks at URL.

When stretched, the open textile subtly reveals its contents and allows users to peek at their iPhone display...

This can't be real. Checks URL again.

Phone Pocket features a singular 3D-knitted construction that is the result of research and development carried out at ISSEY MIYAKE. The design drew inspiration from the concept of “a piece of cloth” and...

iPhone Pocket in the short strap design retails at $149.95 (U.S.), and the long strap design at $229.95 (U.S.).

...What the fuck? This has to be hack or something. There's no way a human being wrote that article, and didn't know what they were doing.

  • source
  • hideshow 10 child comments
  • load more comments (2 replies)
    [–] 130 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Here I thought it was going to be a small screened cheap iPhone and I was excited for a minute.

  • source
  • hideshow 5 child comments
  • [–] 61 points 8 months ago (7 children)
  • [–] 32 points 8 months ago

    I mean, they have done it. When I was looking at phones a few years back, it was genuinely a toss up between a Pixel 4a and an iPhone SE. If all you need it to be is a cameraphone, then both were good options.

    Even now, the iPhone 16e is a relatively inexpensive phone when considering its featureset, but I would prefer a "mini" or newer SE variant instead.

  • source
  • parent
  • load more comments (6 replies)
  • load more comments (1 reply)
    [–] [S] 90 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Personally, I'm saving up for the "Apple Stick and Bindle", the nouveau-hobo accessory of the season.

  • source
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 26 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    I thought it was going to be a new form factor iPhone that could fit comfortably in your pocket.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 4 child comments
  • [–] 82 points 8 months ago* (2 children)

    We've come full circle.

    Also, I wonder if this is some kind of scheme to park the "iPhone Pocket" name for a bit in case they want to make a phone called that in 10 years.

  • source
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • load more comments (2 replies)
    [–] 53 points 8 months ago (1 child)
  • [–] 13 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

    I've commented on here before how women's clothing generally doesn't have large-enough pockets for smartphones. A lot of modern women's clothing is form-fitting, and has small pockets.

    So either you revise the clothing or add some kind of wearable bag/pocket.

    Used to be that women wore dresses, had slits in the skirts that they could reach through, and then had sorta wearable pockets on beneath them. But full skirts are pretty dead now, so:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocket

    By the 17th century, pockets were sewn into men's clothing, while women's remained as separate tie-on pouches hidden beneath skirts.[5][6]

    In the 17th to 19th centuries, women's tie-on pockets—mentioned in the rhyme Lucy Locket—often carried everyday tools like scissors, pins, needles, and keys.[7][8]: 113 

    In modern fashion, men's clothing usually includes pockets, whereas women's clothing often has smaller or even fake ones, sometimes called Potemkin pockets after the concept of a Potemkin village. A 2018 study by the Pudding found that fewer than half of women's front pockets could fit a thin wallet, let alone a phone or keys.[9]

    When I first ran into this, I thought "well, put the phone in your purse then, dammit, you're already carrying that for feminine hygiene products". Problem is that women don't haul (bulky) purses everywhere


    walk into the office, say, set down the purse at the desk, and it's mostly staying at the desk. I don't know any women who wear their purses around the house. But they do want to keep the phone available all the time.

    And the smartphone is a pretty ubiquitous item to want to carry around now.

    So unless women's clothing changes to have large pockets and somehow deals with not messing up the body's silhouette or whatever makes that a problem or the smartphone form factor changes ("big smartwatch?"), I expect that people have to wind up with some kind of mini, wearable container. Like this.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 4 child comments
  • load more comments (2 replies)
  • [–] 52 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

    “a piece of cloth” huh

    borat wearing very little

  • source
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • load more comments (2 replies)
    [–] 45 points 8 months ago* (1 child)

    Like many, I thought for a microsecond that they actually brought out a phone that will fit in a pocket.

    But no, of course they didn't. Because why the fuck would anyone want that.

  • source
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 15 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    I'm so sick of this trend of trying to make the phone as thin as possible and then the camera bump has prominent as possible, completely negating any benefit. My partner would definitely like a thinner phone and would probably buy a phone that didn't have the camera bump because it didn't have any camers, if it meant a thinner phone that would actually fit in her pocket.

    Either that or keep the camera bump and just thicken the whole phone out and give me a larger battery and the apparently too big to fit 3.5mm audio jack.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • load more comments (1 reply)
  • [–] 39 points 8 months ago

    Oh God I feel dumber having read this. How is this not the onion?! A 3D knitted construction? Really?

  • source
  • [–] 37 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    It’s the iPod sock of the 2020’s

  • source
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • load more comments (1 reply)
    [–] 30 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    People thinking this is a joke or laughing at this don't seem to remember when Apple released what was essentially a sock for your ipod video. or how about the $1000 monitor stand? or the wheels for your Powermac that cost hundreds of dollars.

    This is Apple folks. If they can find a way to nickle and dime their gullible cultish user base they will do it. They've been doing it since...well since the company was founded.

  • source
  • hideshow 5 child comments
  • load more comments (5 replies)
    [–] 29 points 8 months ago

    It looks like the bathing suit that Borat wore to the beach.

  • source
  • [+] 29 points 8 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)
  • [–] 29 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    I love this. This is perfect for Apple people.

  • source
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • load more comments (2 replies)
    [+] 24 points 8 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (10 children)
  • [–] 12 points 8 months ago (12 children)

    Well, not a fan, exactly, but I am forced to be fully engulfed in the apple ecosystem.

    I don’t hate them more than Dell, Asus, Sony, or Microsoft. Not everything they make is a ripoff.

    • the $10 A/D converter in the headphone adapters is a steal
    • the mac mini with base config is a good deal
    • the macbook air is worth the money and best in class
    • ipad — no worthy competition for most users
    • M-series chips and their energy consumption
    • savvy users avoid all the upsell ripoffs like storage upgrades and displays and sock slings
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 12 child comments
  • load more comments (12 replies)
  • load more comments (9 replies)
    [–] 23 points 8 months ago

    So, a knee-high sock with a slit on the side. For $230 US.

  • source
  • [–] 20 points 8 months ago

    Apple users are so fucking stupid.

  • source
  • [–] 19 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    does it bother apple that it is compatible with all other phone brands?

  • source
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 18 points 8 months ago*

    How are we getting so dumb? Worst of all, notoriously dumb. A bit of "under the surface stupidity" is tolerable, however, we're well beyond the rubicon of stupid.

    The boomers were on to something when they called us "darn idiots".

  • source
  • [–] 18 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    So a typical cross body bag?

  • source
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 18 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Many years back, I kept my ipod classic in an old sock to protect it while it banged around inside my bag. My buddy made fun of me for it, little did he know that my sense of fashion was just far ahead of its time.

  • source
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago*

    Tangentially related. I used to go out on boats a bunch meant years ago. Lost a moto Razer when they were still kinda new. Was bummed, but learned. So I bought what at the time was a kinda nice Nokia(one of the first bar phones with blue tooth) and put it in a condom and tied it off. Could still use it fairly normally, and there was enough air to keep it floating the few times it fell in. Caught on with some of my cohorts, others got a very expensive lesson in laughing at me.

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 17 points 8 months ago*

    A sock with straps for ONLY $229.95!

    They know exactly how to price products for the Apple gang, any cheaper and no one would buy.

  • source
  • [–] 16 points 8 months ago*

    checks date

    not April 1st

  • source
  • [–] 14 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    It's pathetic that they couldn't refused to offer more than a handful of colors for their "piece of cloth". And "3D-knitted construction"? Fuck off.

    Also, that thing looks like a pickpocket's wet dream.

  • source
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 14 points 8 months ago

    A literal fucking pocket, as I expected. SMDH

  • source
  • [–] 13 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    I bet the $9.95 is the production cost.

  • source
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • load more comments (2 replies)
    [–] 12 points 8 months ago (3 children)
    load more comments (3 replies)
    [–] 11 points 8 months ago

    It'll just make idiots even more identifiable

  • source
  • load more comments
    view more: next ›