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Title reads like an onion headline.

What happens if I use it on an Android phone? Will it burst into flames?

Is it certified for clockwise wiping only, or is it bidirectional?

I had to Google this because I didn't believe it was a real product.

Why on Earth would you buy one of these? You can literally wipe your phone screen with a microfibre cloth and you can buy a bunch of them for about £2.

Phewww.. I thought I have to buy the iSwipe Pro Max 27 for $1,000 to clean my new iPhone

Apple assures us that this cloth, with its supple “nonabrasive material,” can “safely and effectively” clean any Apple display, even the high-tech nano-texture glass of the Pro Display XDR.

If the insinuation is that the Pro Display XDR has glass that needs special care, that sounds like a product that many would not consider a good choice for "pros".

This article is really trying for an eye-rolling kind of tone while at the same time, literally just being an advertisement for new Apple products.

Don't know why but polishing cloth strikes me as slightly dirty lol

Exit: would also accept "rubs me the wrong way"

This is why I like apple.

I just updated the firmware of my apple cloth and now it cleans 10% faster.

Though soon it will be transitioning to a subscription based model.

Knowing Apple, they must have thought about a way to make old polishing cloths specifically incompatible with their newer screens.

Slow news day?

I'm surprised they didn't mention it during their totally not cringeworthy meeting with mother nature

But does it still support the first-gen iPhone?

This is the thing about Apple and why this sort of thing doesn't bother me. Overall, their hardware, at least their phones and notebooks, are relatively similarly priced to the competition with similar hardware. Then they charge buckets for all the accessories. But if you pay for those accessories, that's on you. It's not an Apple Tax, it's a Stupid Tax.

This felt like a The Onion headline, i love it

And of course sold at a vastly inflated price.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

It’s that time of year again — the time when millions around the world nail their eyeballs to the Apple Store website and wait, unblinking, to find out whether the new iPhones and Apple Watches are compatible with the $19 Polishing Cloth Apple launched in 2021.

After all, you bought the cloth as soon as Apple announced it, and you know all about planned obsolescence.

That brings the grand total to almost 120 supported devices, per my quick count.

Apple assures us that this cloth, with its supple “nonabrasive material,” can “safely and effectively” clean any Apple display, even the high-tech nano-texture glass of the Pro Display XDR.

Apple launched the cloth alongside its M1 Pro and Max chips and third-generation AirPods, and in the two years since, it’s no doubt cleaned countless Apple screens the world over.

To save you a trip to its product page, the Apple Polishing Cloth now supports:

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