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The Apple Polishing Cloths compatiblity has been updated for iPhone 16 (www.apple.com)

submitted 2 months ago by simplejack to c/apple_enthusiast

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[–] gibmiser 8 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Why is this posted, much less upvoted?

Who gives a fuck about a polishing cloth? Sounds like a joke.

[–] simplejack 53 points 2 months ago

Sounds like a joke.

You might be on to something

[–] Mbourgon 42 points 2 months ago

Oh, I think we’re all laughing at the inanity of it

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I appreciate the randomness and the fact that the polishing cloth is only backwards compatible to the iPhone 5 and iPad 4th gen. No mention of any other devices prior to like 2012 which is kinda funny honestly. It is a polishing cloth. I could use it to dust the display of my Philco Predicta and it would do just fine 😂 (not that I have one…just providing a ridiculous example).

[–] acosmichippo 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

I think this is just a result of the apple store's accessory recommendation system. Probably so few people use anything older than iPhone 5, it doesn't make sense to include anything before that.

[–] simplejack 5 points 2 months ago

Yeah, they put product compatibility for everything on the site. But we also enjoy shit posting about this over priced microfiber cloth every year.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Oh I know. It is just a ridiculous oversight. Compatibility could have easily been hidden for the page and it would have made more sense lol. This is just poor website implementation. Harmless but also makes them look dumb and pretentious 🤣

[–] Tarquinn2049 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's intentional design, search engine optimisation.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Invisible text can accomplish the same thing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Are the models prior to the iphone 5 even viable? 3G network is long gone at this point, I don't think they had 4G capability until the 5. They'd be entirely wifi-bound

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What are you saying? That the polishing cloth needs at least 4G?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

At this point? 6G at minimum, with no backwards compatibility.