Having the latest and greatest iPhone can be a bit of a status symbol amongst your peers. And what, you’re going to slap on a $10 case from Amazon? Well, you certainly can protect your investment that way, but some people find themselves going in the other direction. At the extreme end, you can even spend far more on the case than on the iPhone itself.
Custom cases like those from luxury brand Caviar run well into the six-figure range. That’s not a typo; their cases range from just under a grand to over half a million dollars for the diamond-encrusted version. Certainly a $100-ish case isn’t all that extravagant in comparison.
