CNET discussions: Is the new Crossbody belt from Apple a great idea or a terrible idea?

One thing you can make sure of it through Apple It is that he will generate huge amounts of speech between veteran obsessive in CNET – nor, we do not always agree with each other.

Is iPhone Air? It has no meaning and no justificationOr The best design innovation Since baking very thin slices? Both can be true, depending on who you ask.

Among the many ads on Tuesday that sparked conflicting opinions, it was a belt across iPhone. After returning to the recession, my colleague Zak McColev decided to present our views and allow you to be the judge.

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Great idea: Katie Collins, the main writer

Have you ever been on the street to meet your friend, and move with Google Maps and your text messages to inform them that you are working late, when it is suddenly: BAM! The dressing on a bike may fade at a high speed and remove your phone from your hand before you have the opportunity to achieve what happened?

In London, this style of stealing the phone is daily, and although it has never happened to me, every time I have taken the streets of the British capital, I warn immediately and maximum.

Earlier this year, Guardian She mentioned that the survey data from the American insurance company Squaretrade showed that 39 % of all European phone theft occur in the United Kingdom, and that 42 % of the British phone theft occurred in London. It is very common for your phone to be grabbed by someone on a bike or bike that the Capital Police in London is making special guidelines to prevent, which shows advice such as: “(when using your phone, on the side of the road, near a building or wall, so no one can come out behind you.”

I get that Crossbody is not a failSafe method to prevent iPhone from stealing. I will never recommend a person to wander around a city in a state of amazing ignorance while his phone flies without bodies. But I support her as a way to repel the opportunists in two wheels.

I can see at other times that the Crossbody Belt will also be within reach. Often on my trips, I find myself on a boat, hold handrails and take pictures on my phone while the world passes me. Always in these situations, I am concerned that a single clumsy slip can see my precious phone on the path of the ocean’s heart in Titanic. Crossbody belt will provide peace of mind in such moments for my protection from my enthusiasm.

As a clinical person who fears their phones, I will invest in one of the Apple iPhone Crossbody belts at the moment when it becomes available. Personally, I can only see the benefit of paste my phone on my body, as well as my hand.

A terrible idea: Zach McCleve, the chief of staff

When I saw the new Apple CrossBody belt for the iPhone, my first idea was, “I bet that someone could cut this real easily and steal the iPhone for someone.”

But Apple definitely thought about it and chose a resistant belt made of something like Dyneemaright? no. according to appleThe tape consists of recycled pets (polyethylene terefiti). If you are not aware of this type of yarn, they are artificial fibers made of recycled plastic bottles.

If you have a shave or something likely, you can cut the tape like a hot knife across the butter. Then there is nothing to prevent you from taking iPhone. The decision to recycle a thousand dollars from an unarmed plastic bar gives me a lot of anxiety.

Some people are on I responded They said they got their cross and stolen bags because someone cut the tapes and ran or rode, so this happens. You were given, as well as someone who kidnaps the phone from your hand. But if I wore my iPhone as a bag, I announce that I have the iPhone and all you have to do is follow me for one second in order to cut the tapes and take off with it.

In addition, if my iPhone is linked to me with a belt, I may be more categorical with how to deal with it. The tape and the corresponding state aim to maintain the device’s safe, so I may consider the things that may cause it to be destroyed in the world. What if the car kicks a rock and hit it, or collided with a slightly metal railway or any number of things that occur and iPhone gets a new scratch or breaks?

No, the best grip of my iPhone like my life depends on it when the device is in my hands. Then I will slip on the iPhone in my pocket to keep safe like Bilbo Baggins after he finds one episode.

Crossbody belt is a bad idea. I know people have things that are taken all the time, but the tape is similar to wearing a mark about your neck that you have the iPhone and with you quickly can be for you! We hope that Apple will make a future resistant belt.

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