From Apple
If you're frustrated at the prospect of cramming a giant iPhone 6 Plus into your pocket, you may want to consider buying your new phone in China, where a telecom operator has hired a tailor to alter customers' pants to accommodate the phone.
Shanghai's China Unicorn offers its customers the pocket-expanding service for free. The tailor 'very strategically' stands outside the Apple store, according to International Business Times.
China Unicorn isn't the first to offer this service -- Amsterdam tech store KPN also had a tailor offering to adjust pockets for iPhone 6 Plus owners, International Business Times reported.
The size of the 5 1/2-inch iPhone 6 Plus vexed tech writers even before the device was officially announced in September. Forbes' review gave the iPhone 6's design the leg up on its larger brother due to the bigger size being too awkward to hold securely. Wired questioned whether growing phones will signal the end of one-handed games. And Business Insider pointed to a few reviews that suggested iPhone 6 Pluses were too big for women's hands and pockets. (Of course, as Marketplace has pointed out, women's pockets are rarely big enough to carry even smaller smartphones.)
Complaints haven't kept people from buying the gadget. Apple sold a record 10 million iPhone 6s and iPhone 6 Pluses the first weekend they were available, according to CNN -- although an analysis by analytics and marketing firm Localytics suggests the iPhone 6 is outselling the iPhone 6 Plus.
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