Sources| Southern Metropolis Daily, 21st Century Business Herald, and Netizen Comments
Recently, the reporter found that Apple's polishing cloth priced at 145 yuan was replenished on the shelves again, but just one day after the shelves, the product was sold out.
From Apple's official website, the description of this polishing cloth has no more powerful functions and uses than soft texture. On the shopping platform, a casual search, the price of ordinary wiping screen cloth is only about 10-40 yuan.
It is no wonder that many netizens have questioned: outrageous, can this be rubbed out of the flowers?
"Affordable" netizens said: Cuffs and corners are not much better than this?
Some netizens pointed out that the most difficult to clean Apple screen is grease and grease, in fact, a small piece of alcohol cotton plus a little alcohol, the cost of 2 cents to get it done, the screen antivirus is clean and shiny, leaving no grease grease on the screen.
However, the direction of the plot is even more surprising.
Polished cloth, though outrageously priced, was surprisingly popular, going on sale in October last year and quickly sold out on the first day of sale, before postponing the delivery date to January this year.
However, some netizens pointed out that this polishing cloth was not originally used to wipe the screen, but for Apple's Pro Display XDR display worth nearly 50,000 yuan, compared to the price of the display, the price of the polishing cloth is not expensive at all. After disassembling the polishing cloth, the well-known foreign dismantling website iFixit found that it was made of two pieces of cloth, so it was equivalent to only 72.5 yuan per piece.
Previously, Apple responded that the company was not surprised by the demand for this $19 accessory, which is "very useful" at work. In fact, there are currently 24 kinds of accessories browsed by category on Apple's official website, including tripods, protective cases and various woven straps.
After Apple's "sky-high rag" was launched, many netizens complained, and Tesla CEO Elon Musk even shelled Apple on social platforms, saying that polishing cloth was an IQ tax. For example, on the Bilibili website, some netizens made a video to connect the polishing cloth with the iPhone and iPad, so that the mobile phone displayed the animation "not your polishing cloth". Some netizens commented, "Bought a thousand pieces to prepare to be knitted for curtains" and "just used polishing cloth to wipe the table after eating tonight."
The reporter browsed and found that after Apple put on the shelves of polishing cloth, the current major e-commerce platforms have appeared in the same polishing cloth with a price ranging from 9.9 to dozens of yuan, taking Taobao as an example, the highest sales volume of 16.8 yuan polishing cloth in the Shenzhen Qihang digital franchise store has been 6,000+ people to receive goods.
On Apple's official website, the reporter noted that the polishing cloth is displayed in many stores, but it can be ordered for delivery, taking January 12 as an example at the time of publication, and the estimated delivery date is 2 working days.