ANIMALS being CUT UP to make Apple Watch straps The Register can reveal that beautiful animals are being cut down in their prime to make Apple Watch straps. We at The Register's nature history desk were upset to discover that creatures such as the majestic ostrich, the noble alligator and the much-maligned shark are being used to make wrist securing devices for fruity …
I heard the bastards are also selling us stuff that is essentially free. There's a trick employed in the Bill of Materials, where they don't truly trace the origins of the materials used. I have done detailed research and I'm aghast to discover if you check really carefully, all the materials used to be FREELY available just lying around in the ground. The bastards are taking stuff that is actually just available for free from this earth we all inhabit, moving it through their "supply chain", which seems to me just a kind of materials laundering scam so we don't properly know where where the materials are from, killing a few miners and factory workers on the way, just so we think it must be a really hard thing they are doing, heating stuff up like a six year old girl cooking a cake with mum, cooling it down, grinding some of it about like 2 year olds with a chalk crayon, and then, hey presto, putting it in a paper box (trees I tell you, freely available everywhere trees!) and after a bit of nancy marketing, charging us a fortune for it.
Also, not sure why they reached out to Apple for comment over a non-Apple, legal, third party product..
Plus these are hardly "exotic" products. Crocodile, shark ('flake' in Australia for example) and ostrich are eaten all over the world. Have had an ostrich burger in many a UK restaurant.
Makes a change I guess from their Android malware FUD that only a braindead cretin would fall for. With over a billion android devices, you would think the chances of actually coming across problems in the wild would be high, yet I have never ever seen a single security problem in real life.
There are LESS windows machines, and its rare to find one without malware...
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Good luck to them, when there's no more creatures about to abuse, then the prices will rocket and everyone will be happy. Of course everyone else can moan about the fact that we can no longer shoot and cut up other anmals to make mindless, expensive shite for rich twats, but rough with the smooth.
I get some of your point, farming gators etc is fine, But how do you farm sharks?
Shark Trust says shark leather comes from a variety of sharks, and some of the ones it lists are on IUCN as endangerd or critical. Obviously we do not know for this companines sourcing, but I might actually email them and find out.
"I get some of your point, farming gators etc is fine, But how do you farm sharks?"
You don't, you fish for them, like tuna, cod, haddock etc.
Fish and chips in Australia is quite often shark, and the ones they go under aren't remotely under threat (Least Concern on the conservation rankings)
They are using lion or tiger skins. Maybe cheetahs too. You do know that so many women like that "animal print" pattern, only because they cannot afford real animal skins.
I know that there are those who say, "If you love animals, don't eat them," but how about taking it further and if you love animals don't wear them either.
Why dont they make straps out of a more sustainable source of leather.
Since this lot are Swiss, they could go and rummage around in the skip behind Dignitas. Theres probably plenty of cheap leather there id imagine.
Incidentally, where was the Reg nature department when Apple started using Gorilla glass? I was recently outraged when I saw an advert for Gorilla glue in the UK recently...have we run out of dogs and horses already?
No. You dont win.
I heard they made their watch straps out of narwhal penises that were cut off living specimens with rusty cheesewire and have been toughened in a bath of unicorn tears, which were extracted by shoving a gauntlet made of carpet tape covered in the broken glass and twisted metal from the road accidents they caused by releasing toddlers into fast moving traffic comprised of nothing but google cars, up their jackseys.
Do I win £5?
Also, if Apple start doing this I'm claiming this as prior art.
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