Re:Apple iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max
by kaba0 on Tuesday September 10, 2024 @12:46AM
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> Next time you’re on public transit, or in line at a restaurant, or somewhere else people frequently use phones, take note of how many have cracked screens
Cool anecdotal evidence, it does actually seem to be correct based on my experiences as well.
Though imo a screen protector is very little price (in terms of losing out on stuff, not monetary wise) to pay to have that scratched instead of the screen.
Re:Apple iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max
by vladvasiliu on Tuesday September 10, 2024 @02:27AM
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I think it depends a lot on how you handle your phone. I used to have screen protectors, which would always end up scratched, coming off, etc. It was a total PITA to replace them. The last one I had was on my iPhone 7. Took it off for the last 4 years of use I've got out of that phone. The screen is still like new. For mew new phone, I didn't bother with a screen protector. It's a year and a half old now, and no scratch to report.
Re:Apple iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max
by salad-tycoon on Friday September 13, 2024 @09:56AM
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Screen protectors have gotten much better and much cheaper, especially for anything other than the latest model.
In any case, sounds like you have a lifestyle that doesn’t require one.
I depend on them. Really can’t tell a difference anymore with regards to feel, hue/light etc.
The reason screens scratch more now than in the past is the tradeoff between shatter resistance and scratch resistance. Generally speaking, it’s very hard to make glass that is both resistant to scratching and shattering at the same time - you can trade off one for the other, but you can’t have both. (Of course as material science progresses the baseline improves - I’m talking about a given point in time at a given price point). In general, it’s much easier to live with light scratches in a screen than with a shattered screen, so the majority of mid-to-high-end phones make the trade off to favour shatter resistance over scratch resistance.
Next time you’re on public transit, or in line at a restaurant, or somewhere else people frequently use phones, take note of how many have cracked screens. Compare that to a decade+ ago where it was fairly common (for me at least) to see broken phone screens. Obviously anecdotal, and could be due to a number of compounding factors, but I very rarely see broken phone screens these days.