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Re:Sweatpants Forever: How the Fashion Industry Collapsed by mthoms on Sunday August 09, 2020 @05:22PM (#24103019)
>The whole Apple fashion status trope is tired and has never been true.

I love (and almost exclusively use) Apple products for many of the reasons you listed. But I think it's disingenuous to deny that there is an element of Apple's branding and design that is based on fashion.

Exhibit A: Laptops and phones getting thinner and thinner at the expense of battery life and other features (headphone jack).

Exhibit B: “A computer absolutely can be sexy… yeah, it can” – The glorious ways Jony Ive has described Apple products

https://www.trustedreviews.com/news/sophisticated-intuitive-...

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Re:Sweatpants Forever: How the Fashion Industry Collapsed by sukilot on Sunday August 09, 2020 @06:03PM (#24103333)
There's a difference between fashionable junk and fashionable quality. The difference is what Jobs and Ive call "design".

Spending extra on design isn't the eco disaster that spending on throwaway fashion is.

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Re:Sweatpants Forever: How the Fashion Industry Collapsed by mthoms on Sunday August 09, 2020 @06:35PM (#24103529)
You're preaching to the converted. I only disagreed with the notion that there is absolutely no "fashion" component of Apple's products or branding at all. Of course there is.
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