Comment by rchaud

3 months ago

The fashion world's biggest sellers are handbags and shoes, which are practical purchases and tend to feature pretty intricate design details. This is a Speedo for a phone, and it makes Apple's already over-the-top descriptions of its products sound even more absurd.

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reducesuffering  3 months ago

Nothing about the fashion world’s $5000 bags is practical. It’s 99% status signaling

  • bigyabai  3 months ago

    > It’s 99% status signaling

    So is buying a $5,000 laptop. Much like shoes and bags, a kernel of practical demand quickly grows into an unlimited demand for vain materialism.

    • morshu9001  3 months ago

      I don't like either of these two worlds. Yes, plenty of people will buy an expensive laptop/desktop that's only ever used to run benchmarks. If anything I could admire the $5K bag more if it's actually nicer than the cheaper ones, but a lot of the time it's not.