The solution is obvious.
Introducing the iPhone case case. The best way to protect your gorgeous Apple FineWoven case. MSRP $99.
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iFixit Gets Closer Look at Apple's Maligned FineWoven iPhone 15 Case With Teardown
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Introducing the iPhone case case. The best way to protect your gorgeous Apple FineWoven case. MSRP $99.
Something is wrong with the numbers, I agree. But the case is definitely not 170mm. Perhaps they meant its 1.7mm thick? This would potentially accommodate two layers of the weave plus the filler
On the other side of the equation, it's also not environmentally friendly by getting a new iPhone each year 
Ah you haven’t heard about my new business selling case cases!
Obviously there's a hole in the market for people that want leather iPhone cases for some enterprising company(s) to fill (guessing solutions existed prior to Apple dropping their line).
Will be interesting to see if Apple keeps selling these for more than a year.
Will be interesting to see if Apple keeps selling these for more than a year.
The old leather cases often wound up in landfills too, along with the negative environmental impacts of leather.
Instead of producing fully new plastic to create this case, they recycled existing plastic. Out of the same plastic they got two products instead of “one” (hypothetical, obviously the recycled plastic came from many different products). It still ultimately cuts down on the amount of plastic going into landfills, and at least part of the case could also be recycled, although plastic cannot be recycled indefinitely.
In any case, any bit of new plastic reduction at scale really helps.
One of the reasons I use a case is that the naked iPhone is too slippery in my hand. The case gives me a better grip.
One could argue that a reduction in leather usage will make cattle farming less profitable. This leads to increased beef prices, which leads to decreased beef consumption. More of a long-term thing though.
Make the iPhone out of depleted uranium and cases are instantly obsolete.
I'm glad theyre switching away from leather. it always seemed odd an environmentally conscious company would promote leather...although they did have great leather products. this new material is interesting, it feels great, dont know about longevity but its not bad. they can possibly learn from car manufactures on other synthetic materials like synthetic leathers. the VW synthetic leather isn't bad but I'm not familiar with its components if theres anything terribly bad (partial leather or plastics). but so far I like the fine woven material...might not be better than leather product wise.
Nah, shareholders and Apple will twist it into an environmentally friendly initiative to replace your devices, all of them, every release cycle.On the other side of the equation, it's also not environmentally friendly by getting a new iPhone each year
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Shareholders don’t care about sustainability and planet. Why would they?
A case to protect your phone, and a spray to protect your case? Really??
Good leather that is maintained will outlast these plastic cases.
As far as sourcing the leather it’s most often a byproduct of the meat industry.
While I am a vegetarian and hate the idea of killing an animal I am not in favor of legislating the meat industry out of business nor am I in favor of lab grown “meat”.
If Apple was truly concerned about the environment they would provide software updates or at least security updates for the hundreds of thousands of pieces of functioning hardware that they have deemed obsolete.
Furthermore more they could significantly reduce electronic waste by selling user upgradeable hardware.
It’s the gift you will keep on giving as it will be considered a consumable.
I think they will discontinue them as soon as they see return percentages, although that will result in a major loss of face for Apple. Unfortunately, these days ideology and groupthink often prevail over common sense and reason.
You need a case for this case cause breathing on it will damage it.
Another alternative is they reduce prices drastically -- perhaps as much as 50 percent -- to stimulate sales. Then, after stocks are depleted, this execrable product is silently discontinued.
