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To be fair, scratches and scuffs on the outside of brand new iPhones have little to do with build quality, just shoddy quality control at Foxconn. I assume Appl
by w0utert 14y ago
To be fair, scratches and scuffs on the outside of brand new iPhones have little to do with build quality, just shoddy quality control at Foxconn. I assume Apple will take responsibility for iPhones that are damaged out of the box.
Wear and tear on the outside of the phone after using it is normal, if you really want to keep the thing in pristine condition, either put it in a case, or don't use it at all. There really is no difference with other phones here.
> And here I thought Apple's main selling point (at least to justify the price) was this hard-to-quantify "build quality" meme.
You don't honestly want to say that you see no difference between the build quality of iPhones compared to most cheaper phones, right? IMO there isn't much 'hard to quantify' about the build quality of iPhones.
- josteink 14y agoThe only people I see with cracked screens are iPhone owners. No Android-phone owners I have ever seen has been using a broken phone. So no, I don't buy that Apple has some sort of magical build quality-property which can't be had in better (and cheaper) phones made by significantly less evil vendors. All Apple has left is full platform lock-in and a church.
- tnorthcutt 14y agoThe only people I see with cracked screens are iPhone owners. No Android-phone owners I have ever seen has been using a broken phone. The plural of anecdote is not data.
- thehigherlife 14y agoFour people I know specifically have broken android screens. Only one person I know has a broken iPhone screen. Android phones are 4x more likely to have broken screens...
- potatolicious 14y agoThe majority of Android phones are also made of plastic. It should come as no surprise that a Casio sports watch has a higher survivability than, say, a metal and glass Swiss timepiece. Build quality is not isomorphic with survivability.
- jrockway 14y agoI've seen a Galaxy Nexus with a cracked screen. Everything breaks.
- sjs382 14y agohttp://imgur.com/tL47Z http://imgur.com/tL47Z -- This was after about 1.5 years and 100+ 4ft drops, though. I had a habit of letting it vibrate itself off my dresser many mornings when using it as an alarm.
- mtgx 14y agoIt has nothing to do with the quality control. It's the whole idea of putting a coating over the aluminum that's wrong.
- incision 14y ago>To be fair, scratches and scuffs on the outside of brand new iPhones have little to do with build quality, just shoddy quality control at Foxconn. Quality control would seem to be a subset of build quality to me. How do you mean to separate it?
- w0utert 14y ago> Quality control would seem to be a subset of build quality to me. How do you mean to separate it? I think it's pretty easy to separate the two things. Shoddy build quality means every single instance of the item is built badly, uses low quality materials and breaks easily. Shoddy quality control simply means the ratio of good items vs. lemons is too high. As long as the manufacturer takes responsibility for sold units that are defective or damaged, shoddy quality control does not necessarily mean a bad product.