While I much prefer real leather, I think Apple should have opted to use vegan leather in their products over fine woven.
I have to imagine there were many internal folks who said the case isn’t durable and looks awful after a few weeks of real-world testing
I’ve had two vegan leather Tommy coats ova the yrs and they Jst don’t withstand me or the elements. I’m very heavy handed, I was a product testa in anotha life -__-
I really, really hope they pull it and kill it. Not just for customers, but for my former retail colleagues who need carefully tap dance around what a miserable product it really is.
Apple absolutely should have just gone to plant based "leather" as a replacement.
Vegan all day but fine woven must’ve really just been the best they could come up with at the time?…that plus the bottom line combined for the perfect storm?..
Vegan leather is a feel-good travesty. I much prefer full grain leather to some 100% man-made concoction straight out of the IG Farben recipe book. It would have to be proper leather, though, not this paper-thin leather veneer over a plastic shell that Apple used to sell as "leather".
And no, not a single cow has ever died for its skin. I eat beef, and I'm all for nose to tail utilisation of the animal.
Feel good travesty?…hmmm. I don’t disagree completely (vegan leathers are environmentally toxic no?), but at the end of the day, striving for the “lesser of two evils” is still striving for good…cows aren’t just stock as Texas farmers would have you believe, no, these are sentient beings with friends and family and a deep seeded need to not want to be executed for any reason…yeah animal chain right? Ok, where are our canine teeth and claws and short length intestines, then??…not to derail at all, only to address this egregious mentality of “using all of the animal is nobler than you give me credit for”…
While I think of it. Did Apple ever announce why no leather aside from “environmental” (if they even said that much)…
Finally, vegan is the truth….it really is, Mother Nature has all the answers/cures…meat and dairy and fish…those are all nerves and blood (essence) and tissue and etc…animals don’t need to cook it just hunt it…
Quite the pickle Apple are in after going to such lengths to trumpet moving away from leather. Any move back to leather (which would be the obvious thing to do) is now off the cards as it would be a PR nightmare. But then, dropping Finewoven would pick a big dent in their revenues from people paying $59 for an iPhone case...
Vegan leather could be an option although it's leaving the door open to complaints that $59 is too much for polyurethane. I wonder if that mushroom-based leather is durable enough and has scaled-up enough to be used...
Mushrooom based??? Ugh so awesome. What a time to…
Finewoven is plastic. 'Vegan leather' is plastic. There is no improvement going from one to another. Plastic degrades, and is just as disposable and non-recyclable when glued to other plastics, regardless of how 'vegan' it is. Calling plastic 'vegan leather' is the attempt to re-brand disposable, non-recyclable, degradable plastic I've encountered.
Just use leather. The animals are getting killed for their meat anyway, might as use all of their parts. It's much more environmentally friendly. Apple absolutely has the resources to dictate what tanning chemicals and procedures occur, and how any potential waste is managed.
See my reply to dotnet…vegan the only way
My wife has one of these cases and it looks terrible after only a few months, with light usage. The silicone cases are garbage, as well. I'm on my second silicone case for my 14 Pro & won't be purchasing another.
Durability issues with your silicone case or something else?…
I could not understand how people defended this case honestly
See above your post, ppl saying they don’t get the hubbub as theirs are not that bad plus they like the look and feel of em..
Leather made from pine tree oil. It doesn't contain eggs or dairy.
So cool…what a time to….
Vegan plant based the best ppl! Get w the program!!!!
There are vegan leathers made from agricultural sources, but it's the same stuff in the end as if it was made from petroleum. Both sources are hydrocarbon strings at the base level, and crude was originally plant material.
Source: Organic chemist for years, before moving on to pharmacy.
So you’re saying they both break down real real slow but are a natural source and so not harmful to the earth really or am I reading too much??…
The mob hate for Fine Woven is wild. Maybe the cost isn't cheap, but I've had a Fine Woven on my 15 pro for about a year now and it's by far the best case I've ever had. I hate leather, silicon, hard plastic.
Wow see posts like this are very fascinating…how did you keep it from looking so grungy as ppl are saying?…why do you hate leather etc?…
