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Curious to see what happens when the fashion cycle runs its course and skinny jeans are in again and these big phones don't fit in our pockets anymore. Will phones get smaller or will we stop carrying them around and instead use wearables and retinal implants?

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I don’t think that’s going to happen. Fashion, like all other segments of society and the economy, bends around the smartphone, not vice versa. The market decided a long time ago it wants big phones and to get handbags or other accessories if their clothes don’t cooperate.

> Fashion, like all other segments of society and the economy, bends around the smartphone, not vice versa.

Man, I hate my Hanes pajama shorts right now. The pockets are way too shallow. Probably even for the iPhone Mini. My phone falls out all the time. And I’m too lazy/cheap to buy new shorts, because they’re good shorts otherwise.

Whoever designed them definitely did not get this memo.

You can have clothes altered

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