I’m 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 the new ones look great and I’m happy they’re doing this. There’s 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, so not a big loss there if you ask me.
Leather is far more environmentally friendly. Slightly more CO2, but zero plastic, micro-plastic, and PFAS pollution. Properly cared for and produced, it also lasts a lifetime. Apple’s leather products of late were awful quality.
Nice try, but it most certainly isn’t. Especially compared to recycled materials such as their new one:
The FineWoven material was also designed with the earth in mind — it’s made from 68 percent post-consumer recycled content and significantly reduces carbon emissions compared to leather.
I’ve 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 I’m concerned.
I’ve 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.
