If they design a thin phone that requires a case, anyone can choose any case they wish to make the phone look any way they wish, and to make it as resistant to falls as they wish.
If they make the phone thicker (a "built in" case, if you will) a consumer's choice is actually restricted. Then there is of course that 10% of people who won't actually use a case served also.
Would you sue a wine glass maker too? A much more fragile handheld object, but expressly designed also to be handled by drunk people?
Re:No Cutting Corners on the iPhone X
by GhostVII on Thursday February 01, 2018 @11:23PM
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Why would you sue someone for offering a breakable product? If people don't want it, they don't have to buy it. Seems like a pretty bad precedent to set.
In England the sale of goods act specifies that products should be “sufficiently durable”. Personally I feel that dropping a phone from a few feet and having to replace the glass screen fails that test
I don't use a case for mine and have had it slide out of my pocket while driving, had to fish it out of the crack between my seat and the center console. This was with normal pants too. To be fair my old iPhone7 had the same problem, but it still amazes me they could design it to be _that_ slick.
Re:No Cutting Corners on the iPhone X
by always_good on Friday February 02, 2018 @01:58AM
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Phones are of course more slippery than ever as they've grown and slimmed and've developed a whole touch screen on one side.
But I also wonder what material you'd manufacture right onto a phone that doesn't just cheapen it to most people, like the lame helmet they give you when you rent a motorcycle. A cool brushed metal feel vs the cracking rubber and yellowing rubber on my girlfriend's cheap android.
Either way I'm not sure why one wouldn't put it in a case. It's like 10 years too late for anyone to be marveling at it.
What's so infuriating about this is that it seems like they go out of their way to make the back of the phone slippery. The metal back of the iPhone 6 and 6s is like teflon and the glass on the X is almost as slippery. Why? I have an old iPhone 4 sitting on the shelf that I occasionally pickup just to marvel at how it sticks in your hand. They proved it could be done years ago.
I don't find the glass back on the X to be very slippery at all in hand. My fingers stick to it quite well. It does slide on furniture, but in hand it feels pretty secure, especially relative to older iPhones. The 4 was easier to hold because it was just so small.
But it's no nice looking they would say while buying a cover to promptly cover it the moment they unbox it. The idiocy of modern day smartphone culture boggles my mind. Ironic that it reminds me of apple's 1984 commercial in a bad way.