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.
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, it’s not like people are raising cattle for the purpose of leather. It’s a byproduct of the meat industry for the most part.
Dropping leather isn’t going to do anything for the environment because those cows are still going to be raised and killed for meat.
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.
Leather is absolutely not more environmentally friendly. Did you forget leather comes from cows and doesn’t just appear magically out of thin air?
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.
