You're right of course, but I think it misses the point, depending on your outlook.
For me, it's not about whether or not $900 is a lot of money. There's just something perverse about spending that amount of money on something which, intrinsically speaking, is not worth that valuation. There are better products for protecting your AirPods at a fraction of the cost. Hell, buy a second pair of AirPods! I couldn't, in good faith, throw that amount of money down the drain when there are so many good causes it could go to instead.
You could buy an overpriced, statement, protective case for, say, $200 - and give $700 to people who genuinely need it.
Don't mistake what I'm saying though. I'm not saying you should never buy anything expensive. A $930 AirPods case is nothing compared to a new car and I don't see any issue with people buying new cars! But I would see a moral problem with someone buying a Toyota Camry for $500,000 just because another 'high-end' brand had put their logo on it.
Hopefully one day you will be a billionaire. But if I were you, even when money is no object, I'd still object to paying ridiculous sums of money to companies that, frankly, haven't done enough to earn it - and I say that as an Apple user!
You sir, and quite the number of hypocritical commenters, clearly have no understanding of Hermes, the brand, the history, nor the quality. A comparison of Hermes to being a Toyota Camry with another brand’s name slapped on it, is misinformed and misguided. Hermes is the Bentley and better of leather goods. Everything is handmade by artisans particularly trained by Hermes, mostly in France, in the same traditions of 186 years. Hermes owns its entire supply chain of animal farms around the world including premium and prestige farms of cattle and alligators in the USA. Additionally, while yes, many people with rich ambitions and aspirations purchase the brand, though let’s not be juvenile enough to diminish the fact that brands like Hermes are multi-billion dollar corporations because their target and main consumer base are an extremely wealthy customer that has an avg. yearly spend of $250k+/year.
Hermes goods are made by product development and production workers that are paid on average €40-70/hr. depending on experience. All of its leather goods are made in Italy or France from the best leather in the world. If you want cheaper goods then there plenty of options that are actually made in sweatshops, Hermes isn’t one of them. There are also other luxury brands with lower-priced accessories, also not made in sweatshops, but are also not Hermes.
If you don’t understand a price point that’s fine, but don’t ignorantly speak about a brand you know nothing about, especially when it’s a brand that is truely one of the few that maintains the highest standard of quality for the exclusivity of product assortment.
It’s quite strange when we’re all Apple Fanboys/girls here that understand the premium nature of Apple products, though you speak negatively about Apple’s choice in partnerships that are in line with the highest standard of product assortments that Apple provides you. If you don’t like it, or can’t afford it, then move on, but don’t diminish the caliber and quality of a product you clearly know nothing about, period.
I was raised as a luxury consumer; which is why initially I became an Apple customer 26 years ago, at 17. I am also a techy, and that merges my interests because while Apple may not be the most innovative in some aspects, it is the premium experience in all aspects, which is why it’s luxury. If we as Apple customers wanted the cheap, fast version of everything, we’d get Androids, just as if I wanted cheap sweatshop leather, I’d buy an accessory on Amazon. Buy what you like, if it provides value that you understand, otherwise, it’s ok to be quiet when you don’t have the right information, thank you.
