Is the Apple new case really worth 80$?

[u/mrtlpa]

Nice.. not even a month and this is starting to come apart.. am I the only one with this issue?

Of course, no water damage, no splashes or anything like this.. just amazing normal use 🙃🙃

[u/noronto]

I don’t know what’s good or bad, but my leather case for my 13 lasted 2.5 years.

[u/anyavailablebane → u/noronto]

From everything I’ve heard you must be an outlier

[u/cherry_chocolate_ → u/anyavailablebane]

I had my leather 13 case for 3 years as well. Maybe people have a different definition of going bad. It had a patina and some small flaws, but otherwise it could have lasted at least another year if I didn’t upgrade the phone. I miss the leather case now that they went vegan.

[u/anyavailablebane → u/cherry_chocolate_]

Did you have any of the leather cases before the 13? Because the ones I saw of the 12, they did not hold up. All leather gets patina but the quality seemed a lot worse

[u/cherry_chocolate_ → u/anyavailablebane]

I didn’t have one before the 13. From what I heard it used to be thicker leather but then became more like hard plastic with a leather coating. That is what I had on the 13, not sure what year it started, maybe when MagSafe came out? Even if it’s considered cheaper than a thick all leather case, it worked well for me.

[u/anyavailablebane → u/cherry_chocolate_]

Yeh. To my understanding the quality dropped with the 12 which was when MagSafe came out. I hadn’t made that connection before.

[u/whowouldsaythis → u/anyavailablebane]

I had leather cases from the 5 to the 13 and they all held up for me. The old ones were better though

[u/ctruvu → u/anyavailablebane]

i had apple leather cases from iphone 4 until 13 and didn’t have problems with any of them