There will be tons of cheap clones in 3...2...1....

This was one of my first thoughts. Could have knock-offs made for probably $10 landed cost, and put them on Amazon for $99.

My mom knitted a bag for my niece's iphone in 2024, so there already was a trend.

I'm sure there will be, will be interested in how many people who want cheap clones want ... that.

I'm not sure there's a sure crossover of big numbers.

This makes me wonder how strong this thing is because on first sight it just asks for being cut by a random thug. Same goes for this strap thing they introduced.

I thought I won't be seeing anything else more ridiculous this decade regarding phones than people talking on speaker and holding them like piece of pie and here we are. There's no practicality whatsoever - I'd rather buy a strong case, probably that would cover both screen and cameras and a good urban backpack where I can put other stuff like physical wallet and a bottle of water, some charging cable.

It's more a gadget sold as a status symbol - bit like some cases had that small rounded window for apple logo.

The classic is two guys on a moped in Marseilles. The passenger cuts a pedestrian purse strap (or iPhone strap) and they vanish.

One could embed an invisible security cable, but then...

Give it a week and you will get all colors from aliexpress or shien for $5.

> It might be dumb, but at least it's expensive.

Just realizing that the reverse could be a selling point for a phone here: It might be expensive, but at least it's dumb.

Haha, before looking at the price, I joked "I'm not going to buy this if it's only $99 or less."

I sure didn't get disappointed.