tst123Apple Announces 'FineWoven' Material, Will No Longer Make Leather Accessories
soren446Rip the Hermes line. Gonna miss the horsey face š„²
OnseBut they also announced new, non-leather HermĆØs bands? I would assume, the horse stays?
Omg wait did I miss that? I didnāt get to watch the stream because Iām in meetings all day but couldnāt find anything about new Hermes watches on Appleās site for the Series 9.
And then thereās this:
Interesting. Tbh Iām honestly a huge fan of their non-leather Bridon options this year. Not surprised at the creativity with materials and colors coming from HermĆØs.
But we get Double Tour on the 45mm leather finally?! Black only for now but maybe theyāll drop an Orange or Bleu Navy leather DT. Ya know. To go with the orange horsey face. Why do I love that damn face lol.
There will be an infinite number of 3rd parties making leather bands and I will get one of those. Appleās facade of ācaring about the environmentā is hilarious though. That mother earth video is cringe as fuck. How does Apple feel about all their customers who buy a new phone EVERY YEAR? Is that good for the environment? Itās certainly good for Appleās stock price.
At least they are doing something. Why not complain about companies who donāt give a shit and continue to poison the environment?
thehatfoxWas there much leather left in many of the accessories anyway? The iPhone 13 and 14 leather cases Iāve had or seen have worn out really quickly, they donāt seem to last anywhere near as long as the leather cases I had in years past.
I even used to be able to sell my old leather cases in the 4/5/6 days because people wanted the built up leather patina.
PoggervaniaIt comes down to the kind of leather used. Most manufacturers will say they use āgenuine leatherā, which is technically leather because itās the scraps from other leather products glued or bonded together. You also have pleather, AKA fake or synth leather, which iirc if itās 100% pleather itās actually good, but anything less than 100% and it becomes absolute shit.
The older leather stuff and modern premium leather will usually be full-grain leather, which is the actual good leather we know and love.
fer0nIām sure people will disagree, but it has increasingly felt odd to me that Apple was still selling leather accessories with their environmental attitude. I think they look great and Iām happy theyāre doing this. Thereās still more than enough leather accessories from third parties.
Also, the iPhone leather cases I had wore off quite quickly and looked terrible after a while.
Leather is far more environmentally friendly. Slightly more CO2, but zero plastic, micro-plastic, and PFAS pollution.
Nice try, but no. It most certainly isnāt.
DeceptichumIāve had a leather belt for over 20 years and wear it every day.
Beats the crap out of any other material in the longevity department as far as Iām concerned.
Iāve had a leather iPhone case for almost a year and I use it everyday.
It definitely does not beat the crap out of any other material. It looks like shit. Not even a good patina - it just looks like ass.
For a premium brand selling itself on premium quality, their leather stuff sucked pretty hard.
Some sort of woven material is exactly what I suggested when the rumors were first brought up. There are absolutely things in the canvas neighborhood that have a lot of the traits decent leather does that apply to phone cases. I think it has a lot of potential.
Eh, itās not like people are raising cattle for the purpose of leather. Itās a byproduct of the meat industry for the most part.
Dropping leather isnāt going to do anything for the environment because those cows are still going to be raised and killed for meat.
Leather is more of a coproduct than a byproduct, because it makes meat cheaper than it otherwise would be. Which means more people are buying meat and therefore more cows are raised.
Whatās the bet thisāll be some synthetic shit thatll shed micro plastics everywhere.
Iām guessing itās mostly recycled polyester? They only state it [reduces carbon emissions]((apple.com/ā¦/iphone-15-pro-finewoven-case-with-magā¦):
Made from durable microtwill, the material has a soft, suedelike feel. The FineWoven material was also designed with the earth in mind ā itās made from 68 percent post-consumer recycled content and significantly reduces carbon emissions compared to leather.
Iām guessing the main plastic issue isnāt coming from relatively small items that you keep using for years and rather from the infinite amount of packaging that we throw away daily. Not sure what the āidealā material would be, but whatever it is, if itās 70% recycled thatās probably a good start.
And post customer recycled sounds impressive too if its not just marketing wording, cause most ārecycledā plastics just recycle as part of the manufacturing process, but still create all new plastics
That makes sense, I wasnāt sure why they called it that
vitriolixYou are probably right that industrial and packaging are probably major sources, but microfibers in clothes is a big problem too
www.unep.org/ā¦/fashions-tiny-hidden-secret#:~:texā¦.
Laundry alone causes around half a million tonnes of plastic microfibres to be released into the ocean every yearāthe equivalent of almost three billion polyester shirts.
Fashionās tiny hidden secret
Fashion today is about obsession with outward image and appearance. Rarely do we as consumers consider whatās on the inside: the hundreds of thousands of fibres that make up our clothing which have led to an estimated 1.4 million trillion plastic fibres in the ocean.