Because how fragile the new titanium body is. Like fragile enough to be able to break the glass back with no tools (you just have to press a little hard with your thumb).
Holy fuck. Warn me before you do something like that. I almost punctured a lung laughing at that.
I can only apologize from the deepest recesses of my cold and dead heart. Here, might I offer a link to a fantastic Star Trek podcast with John de Lancie? It is over an hour long! Boop
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.
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.
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.
This was my experience lately when visiting downtown Vancouver (Gastown) for parking. Like 3-4 signs per post that somewhat contradict each other on times of day for parking.
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.
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.
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.
The good thing about the glass backs is it’s quite sticky on your fingers, which is nice. I’d still take plastic or something else instead, but hopefully also sticky. I’d rather not drop my phone at all, but if I do I don’t want it to crack.
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