Oberhorst
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🤦🏻♂️ Woke nonsense. This mother nature presentation was the cringiest 💩 I've ever seen.
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Hermès Debuts Apple Watch Series 9 Collection Including Leather Bands
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RealPhone
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Non leather accessories manufactured in China with power/electricity from coal-fired power plants. Apple's climate-friendly 0-emissions vision is a charade!
The Hermès watch face is really nice. The band is just so meh though. Looks more like equestrian equipment than a luxury item.
Edit: I followed the link to the Hermès site, and there are more attractive band options than the one featured here. But even if I had all the money in the world, I don't think I could justify buying one just because it's Hermès.
Edit: I followed the link to the Hermès site, and there are more attractive band options than the one featured here. But even if I had all the money in the world, I don't think I could justify buying one just because it's Hermès.
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coredev
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SBlue1
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Why? It would be more cruel to eat just the muscle meat and throw away everything else. Use the whole animal.
Gudi
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And I know what I saw: Mother Nature shaming Rando Guy over there for wearing a leather jacket. "Are they facing you out too?" Followed by an "Oh!" from the employee who almost got fired. Very funny indeed.
RedTheReader
macrumors 6502a
This, but unironically. The Apple Watch is an astonishingly useless product. Waste of space, metal, silicon, and energy.
Move to a different company. Don’t tolerate wOkNeSsSss.
Gudi
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Apple also tried to normalize unhealthy levels of extreme obesity while talking about the necessity to lower one’s carbon footprint by reducing the Watch packaging by 25%. If you yourself weigh twice as much as a normal person of your height, the CO2 shipping costs of your watch become irrelevant.
RealPhone
macrumors 6502
Obesity and diversity counts, but the cost for Apple and the shareholders can be tremendous!
Oberhorst
macrumors regular
Very true, but I wonder – are there healthy levels of extreme obesity? 🤔
RealPhone
macrumors 6502
bryn0076
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Outside of all the anger spewing back and forth over here: it poses an interesting question - now that Hermès are selling watch bands outside of there Apple Store, how will they maintain their watch face exclusivity? Seems like the Hermès watch faces may become available to everyone (a la Nike)
miamialley
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entropys
macrumors 65816
A 15 year old cow would have ground her teeth down to nothing and would not be doing very well at all. if she could actually become with calf, trying to bear and raise it would probably kill the mother, and if in an extensive grazing system with low oversight, then the calf as well. In my country a cow over ten years is probably a pet.
i agree with you though that this move is being portrayed as virtuous when it is in reality margin improving, and that Apple gets away with this claim just shows how the majority of people are these days completely removed from nature red in tooth and claw (if Americans have heard of Tennyson).
jlnr
macrumors regular
If Apple's colored leather really ages like this, then holy moly, good riddance. Reminds me of the "black" iPhone 5 that would turn silver when scratched.
I loved the black leather cases that I've owned, and so far they have easily outlived the phones inside of them (software EOL).
philosopherdog
macrumors 6502a
We shouldn’t be wearing our animal friends in the 21st century in the western world
P-DogNC
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What the hell is that comment directed at Oberhorst supposed to mean!? It sounds like a pejorative anti-German stereotype and would be hypocritical behavior coming from a professed, socially-sensitive vegan. It also does not promote your anti-leather stance.
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coredev
macrumors 6502a
There are various German colloquial expressions around the name "Horst", eg
"Sich zum Horst machen" - looking stupid
"Den Horst geben" - acting like an idiot
"Vollhorst" - A person acting totally stupid
In German the prefix "Ober" means "to a high degree" or "very much",
so you could interpret the word "Oberhorst" as a term for a very stupid person.
I found the name "Oberhorst" for a person calling Apple's sustainability efforts "woke nonsense" very fitting.
btrach144
macrumors 68040
Hermes is considered a French luxury house.
Rolex is considered a Swiss watch maker.
Omega is considered a Swiss luxury watch maker.
Richard Mille is considered a Swiss luxury watch maker.
These are descriptions taken directly from their websites.
Notice the difference? While Hermes does make watches, it is not rooted in it.
Good to know about the availability of these watch bands
Apple doesn't "feel" strong about it. They just do it to boost their ESG scores, to keep their big investors like Vanguard and BlackRock happy. If BlackRock and Vanguard pull their money from Apple, the stock price would plummet.
coredev
macrumors 6502a
You did see me putting "feel strong" in quotes, did you? It was a quote from the comment I replied to.
Gudi
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Yes there are. Body fat is in itself not a health problem. It's the normal energy storage system of the body. But it is a symptom of a developing Insulin Resistance, which will lead to Type 2 Diabetes, Strokes, Blindness, Limp Amputation etc. For as long as the body can store away excess blood sugar in fat cells, the sugar can't damage other tissues in the body. It's when you can't get any fatter, that your health starts to deteriorate quickly. That's why some rather skinny people can already have a Type 2 Diabetes while some fat people are still pre-diabetic. Excess body weight should be viewed as an alarm signal. The real problems are yet to come, when you don't drastically change your lifestyle.