Pretty sure people buy the red iPhone because they want their iPhone in red.

TBF, I'm going to do it because I want my phone in red _and_ because it's literally a free gift to a charity at no additional cost to me.

If that were the only reason then Apple wouldn't associate it with Product Red.

The Red iPhone is signaling and that's the whole premise of Product Red. The charity appeals to vane people who feel the need to show off and exploits them for good.

That's such a false dichotomy. You can want a red iPhone, want to support charity, and not be a brow beater. C'mon.

A bright red phone is attention grabbing, like a loud motorcycle or crazy hair. You can claim that because one person might just like having a red phone, that everyone who has it just likes red phones but the association with and marketing around Product Red all point to the red colored phone being a form of signaling.

That's nonsense. The marketing around Product Red are that you can buy the same product you want in a color that you want and donate to charity without changing your behavior at all. That's the only association being made.

You're projecting right now. So hard.

> The marketing around Product Red are that you can buy the same product you want in a color that you want

So you can buy a space grey iPhone from Apple and support Product Red? This I was not aware of.

Yes: https://www.red.org/donate

My comment was in the context of Apple's Product Red offerings, not the charity itself. You can't buy an Apple product and have proceeds from the purchase go to the Product Red charity unless you purchase a bright red device.

But I appreciate that you're willing to read through an entire thread and then take my last comment completely out of context for your "witty" response.

Honestly, I shouldn't have responded at all. Sorry about that.

I genuinely can't tell if you're being intentionally obtuse or if you're just clueless about your own point...

My comment was in the context of Apple's Product Red offerings, you can't buy an Apple product and have proceeds from the purchase go to the Product Red charity unless you purchase a bright red device.

Yes you can purchase any Apple device you want AND donate to the charity. You can also forgo the device and just donate to the charity, but we weren't talking about either of those scenarios.

Larry David would agree.

I don't understand. Is that something from Curb Your Enthusiasm?