By valentin86 on Skatehive
Gold Above, Air Below - When Caviar Luxury is Thinner than Common Sense. Let's be clear. We're not talking about Caviar here. We're talking about CAVIAR 😁(in capital letters), the company that plates phones. And they just released a titanium and gold iPhone Air. Well, "customized." a screenshot from the official website of the Caviar brand _ My amazement is genuine, not at the gold itself, but at the aesthetic audacity. Taking a gadget that costs a fortune anyway and putting it in a case that costs as much as an apartment is an act of art... but a very stupid one. It's a demonstration of engineering prowess, because it takes precision to put a mechanical watch on the back of a phone or to carve a 24K gold dragon on a piece of glass. Wow. Congratulations. However, the question that haunts me is - Who uses a 40,000 $ phone? A collector? A bored oligarch? A man who has completely lost the meaning of utility.....whoo buy it?? This is a phone that, if you drop it from a height of 10 centim