Apple warns its new credit card shouldn't go in your wallet, pocket, or purse
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This is comical to me, someone cleaning their credit cards.
After like maybe 6 months of just carrying it in my pocket everywhere, the layers start to delaminate and it becomes frilley around the edges which then gets dirty and looks gross.
Anything that isn’t plastic and laminated would be a plus. Can’t imagine the Apple Card could look worse.
Here's a recent one from 8 hours ago, scratched https://www.reddit.com/r/AppleCard/comments/cu88gh/sctaches_...
They're basically saying don't use leather because the dyes can bleed onto the metal and to avoid stuff like denim (which is generally rather abrasive and can pick up and hold random debris which can further scratch). People are acting like it's some conspiracy or that they need to buy some otter box style case Apple is just saying "stop doing this and this or you're going to call us freaking out wanting a new card" (people are already requesting new cards because theirs is scratched...).
It’s a very profitable industry
The issue here is that Apple is telling you not to use the things that are specifically designed to protect cards and such from these kinds of problems.
I use my banks app for loyalty card scanning because it doesn’t work properly in Apple Wallet yet.
This dark titanium card offers an upgrade from the pedestrian titanium card, which brings numerous additional benefits to our cardholders, and yes, of course, including silken pillows (and associated pillow-holders), umbrella holders, and all other manner of servants. Beyond that, you get benefits such as...uh-oh, I'm sorry sir/madam, I just noticed - while looking at your credit score - that you don't qualify to even hear about the rest of the benefits that the rest of the 1%-ers (that's what we affectionately call our favorite customers) qualify for. Good day sir/madam. I said, good day!
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This is what bugs me about apple. I can remember Jobs saying iPhones didn’t need cases and if you put a case on it you’re doing it wrong.
I have used iPhones for a decade without cases. I has one 50$ screen repair for dropping a phone on concrete. That’s less than some cases cost. On top of that you need to buy a new case for each phone generation, so even average cases would have been a net loss.
PS: I get into the habit of keeping keys and phone in different pockets pre iPhone which probably helps.
Unless you do underwater photography or your phone regularly ends up in the washing machine, water proof cases are probably overkill.
Also, one case does not fit 5 phones. Breakeven would be 10$ cases + screen protectors including tax.
Last phone I ordered a cheap case from amazon. For $10 it’s as good as my pelican case or any otter box.
No, I am not a paid shill. I am happily shilling for free. This case is badass and I can't recommend it enough.
I (don't) really feel like I wasted my money. Grip alone makes the case worth it to me!
Happened to me.
Of course any card is going to get dirty, there is literally nothing that can be done to stop it. But some people aren't that bright and would just automatically assume the "Apple" one is perfect and will stay perfect.
What I'm trying to say is, don't hate on Apple. Hate on the users who make running a story like this necessary.
Making it easier to go into debt to buy the next Apple product is a worrying pattern to me.
I don't think so—or at least, other phone manufacturers don't seem to think so, because they're offering up even more expensive phones. For instance, the Samsung Note 10+ is launching any day now starting at $1,100, and the 5G version starts at $1,300.
The first and most important step in the marketing journey is awareness in the mind of the consumer... everyone here is now well aware that Apple just launched a credit card!
And for what? Just writing down in a "support" page what everyone already knows about credit cards: if you put them in your pocket or wallet they will get marked up.
Another step in marketing is product differentiation--why my product is better than yours. By creating a product support page for their card, Apple is implying that you should care what happens to an Apple card--which helps imply that it is somehow better, more valuable, than a boring old regular credit card.
Apple gets accused of being a luxury fashion company. But this card is no more expensive than any other rewards card. It's not actually a luxury product.
I think it's more accurate to say that Apple is extremely good at employing luxury fashion tropes to market their regularly-priced functional products.
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20767618
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20764796
I've observed many, many times that other stories which get repeated are quickly marked as a dupe...but not this one?
(When I started reading your sentence I presumed you were going to dig something out of your prison wallet)
Scrambles to manufacture artisanal bamboo Apple Card covers.