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This is one thing I absolutely don't understand. Phone makers should be sued to oblivion (and I'm saying this someone who is not fond of the litigation culture
by tmd83 9y ago
This is one thing I absolutely don't understand. Phone makers should be sued to oblivion (and I'm saying this someone who is not fond of the litigation culture of US in general) for making a portable device that is essentially designed for failure .. a fall. A phone that is meant to be held for hours, to be placed in all sorts of surface, giving it a slippery back is willful negligence for me.
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.
- saagarjha 9y agoQuite literally any smartphone on the market would break if it fell. Are you suggesting that every phone manufacturer should be sued?
- CaptSpify 9y agoWat I've dropped plenty of phones plenty of times and they've never broken.
- powvans 9y agoWhat'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.
- dpark 9y agoI 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.
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- rland 9y agoIf 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.
- GhostVII 9y agoWhy 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.
- justinhj 9y agoIn 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
- ggg9990 9y agoWould you sue a wine glass maker too? A much more fragile handheld object, but expressly designed also to be handled by drunk people?
- trevor-e 9y agoI 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.
- always_good 9y agoPhones 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.