Grandpa Nokia: "Pah, when I was young, we didn't need any coat!"
this post was submitted on 16 Oct 2023
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"Did I ever tell the time when your uncle 6310 got dropped on a tile floor, and the floor broke?"
If only modern phones would made out of proper shock resistant plastic, instead of bendy metal and brittle glass, we wouldn't need extra case.
I've heard the glass is also quite bendy, compared to normal glass.
Plastic is usually scratchy. Glass is much better about resisting scratches. I believe you're, right, modem phone glass is pretty flexible. It's also (usually) coated with something that prevents finger oils from building up easily.
modem
A good old keming issue in the wild!
Still, the choice of glass is clearly cosmetic (less prone to scratch, nicer look, premium feel), buy technically plastic presents more advantages, it is lighter, absorbes shocks, fairly durable, much cheaper. To make for the most reliable device it would be better, but we know that's not a priority for any of the manufacturers, and propably also for many customers.
Eh, I would argue that having a scratched screen goes beyond a cosmetic issue. It tangibly downgrades your experience.
Plastic scratches much easier than glass cracks.
I have nothing against glass screen, but glass back-side I find rather stupid, and pretty standard nowdays.
Gimme a plastic screen and I'll put a glass screen protector on it.
I managed to bend an iPad trying to pull it out of a case, can confirm it’s got some flex to it
The metal is okay, it's the glass that's the problem.
Ah, the good old days, when only the screen was glass.
Depends on alloy, some are more brittle or prone to deformation than others
I want a nice solid core of 1/4" plate steel for my phone's structural skeleton. Wouldn't that be cool?
Wrap the rest of the phone in shock proof plastic and glass screen.
Honestly, modern phones are pretty durable and screen replacements are pretty cheap.
My complaint is that the glass backs are slippery as fuck. My iPhone was constantly sliding off of tables and shit until I bit the bullet and got a case for it.
I do not agree, owned like 3 phones all of them ending up in cracks, yes I am a clumsy person but I also work in a hangar where at one point my phone screen cracked due to carrying something.
Thanks to apple and it's fanbase we don't have that luxury
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I can't put my arms down!
You'll crack your screen, kid!
I am 25 and I have one of those boomer cases on my phone. (a flipcase) I've bought it in August 2019 and it still doesn't even have a scratch on the screen. Don't care if I look like a boomer, that thing did cost me about 1000€ and I ain't gonna replace it just for being careless.
Looks down at unprotected phone
Tis only a matter of time you poor bastard.
One of friends back in the day would lecture me on having a phone case. "why don't you just not drop it?" I was like, dude, accidents happen. "I've never dropped my phone he'd say." I swear, like a month after that happened, his friend stepped on his phone and a month after that he dropped his phone when taking it out of his pocket outside a burger joint.
I didn't have a go about it. He's not one of those that takes those types of jabs well.
Some people have to learn about best practices the hard way.
The scary thing, then, is lessons like “Look both ways before crossing the street”. You fail that sort of lesson the hard way, and you don’t get a chance to learn anything.
All people
Humans are unique in their ability to learn from the mistakes of others and their blanket refusal to do so.
Yeah. I know people who say stuff like that. I know someone who wanted a convertible car (they were 18). Someone mentioned the greater danger of they flip, and this person said "well I'm not going to flip a car". We all gave them a hard time about whether they thought everyone who flipped a car did it on purpose. The next year, this same person flipped their car several times (and walked away OK somehow).
Some people can't comprehend that bad stuff would happen to them.
It is unlikely that an average person flips their car. You have to weigh the pros and cons of it. We take risks all the time, but if we think it's more beneficial we take them. Just driving a car is pretty dangerous alone. Personally, I don't think a convertible is worth the risk or the cost, but I won't say no one should get one.
Yeah, only the people who don't flip their car should get one.
I have zero problems with owning one, and have owned them in the past. We knew this person was a crazy driver and that it was a bad idea.
History repeats itself: the Titanium version of the PowerBook G4 was also prone to basically falling apart, now the iPhone 15 Pro does the same thing
Yep. Thin bits of titanium are brittle. Apple should spend more time in knife communities so they can get learned.
knife communities
like London?
I took my phone out of the case after a while, but the stupid screen goes all the way to the edge, so I keep accidentally tapping things just by holding the phone.
I took mine out of the case recently and it's almost unusable. The screen goes to the edge like you mentioned. It's paper thin so my hand doesn't fit around it nicely for my thumb to swipe around. Lastly it's slippery as fuck.
My phone case isn't for protection. It's for making the phone usable.
The main reason I dgaf about phone aesthetics. That baby's going into a thick af case asap.
Also, unintentionally appropriate user name?
Yep, fun coincidence I guess 😄
I had a coworker who was constantly buying new phones. I didn't know why until I realized that he didn't use a case. He didn't like how the phones looked with a case on them.
Man I have a $25 phone clear case and I've dropped my phone on concrete, hardwood floors etc... Not a scratch.
Same. I suggested that to him, but nope. Phones also seem slipperier than they used to be, so I feel like the case lets you hang onto it better, keeping you from dropping it in the first place.
Doesn't help that they're so much bigger now
I don’t understand why phone makers don’t design the phone with the cover in mind. Make the cover a part of the phone. Nokia had interchangeable covers and it was awesome! There were whole stores with different covers to choose from. I had 2 or 3 different ones and would swap depending on my outfit.
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