What are Apple stickers for?

Hardware
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With the reduction in packaging and drive to environmentally friendly packaging, what’s the reason for the continued use of stickers?

Does anyone ever do anything with them?

2

I’ve never put an Apple sticker on anything. Before the iPhone an Apple sticker on a car was like a Diver’s Flag sticker, a signal to thieves that there might be expensive equipment inside.

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From the title I thought you meant the pictures you can put on messages :joy:

In both cases I do nothing with them.

I have seen the odd person put an Apple sticker on their work Windows laptop, presumably in quiet protest.

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4

I assume the stickers are for marketing purposes. I see students put stickers on lots of things including laptops and water bottles.

5

My kids usually steal mine and plaster it on their notebooks or whatever.

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Yes! I collect them!

I’m not sure where they are currently, but I do covet the gold ones I got with the 12" MacBook I bought in gold.

Oh, I’ve never actually stuck one on anything.

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They are for collecting and reminding you of how much you’ve spent on Apple gear over the years.

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I once put one on my suitcase so that I could more easily identify it at the baggage claim carousel but then found that I was no longer able to open it.

(Seriously though, that has been my only use for them)

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Count me as one of the odd people. But it was just for fun. I was doing it before I ever owned any Apple product. Not a protest as I was an enthusiastic MSDOS/Windows user.

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10

I know what Drax could use them for.

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I suppose you’re one of those “right to unpack” people, huh?

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I used them on black cards to gift my kids an Apple share. They have to keep it for 5 years and then do with it what they will. I’m hoping it will have gone up enough in value that Apple will split them as they did a few years ago. Doesn’t look like it at the moment though :man_shrugging: