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When people _need_ a case to protect your product from breaking you have a problem. Until the iPhone 5s I never had a case I rarely dropped my phone. The 5s is
by k-mcgrady 13y ago
When people _need_ a case to protect your product from breaking you have a problem. Until the iPhone 5s I never had a case I rarely dropped my phone. The 5s is like a bar of soap. If I were to use it without the case I doubt I'd get more than a few weeks without a smashed screen. It's a major usability issue imo.
- stormbrew 13y agoMy iPhone 4 would literally slide off slightly uneven tables all on its own given enough time (made a great bar trick). I'm not sure how you could have only started to have problems with the 5S. Never buying a phone with a glass back ever again.
- k-mcgrady 13y agoThe glass gripped to my hand better than the metal but I did have the uneven table issue.
- stormbrew 13y agoHonestly I miss plastic. So slandered, but it grips nicely, doesn't tend to shatter, and is really cheap to replace if it does break. It also takes more of the brunt of a fall than metal or glass, saving the glass on the other side more effectively. I am unfortunately still using a glass backed phone (Nexus 4), though. Wish I'd waited for the Nexus 5.
- dpcx 13y agoIsn't that essentially what bumpers on cars are for? To prevent the product from breaking?
- mikepurvis 13y agoYeah, but they come with it. It's not something you have to remember to pick up and install yourself on the way home from the dealership.
- k-mcgrady 13y agoAs mikepurvis said the phone doesn't come with a case and the one Apple offers is quite expensive. I've never used cases with my phones but the 5s really is so slippery I can't risk it.
- canvia 13y agoI use a snap on case so that if I drop the phone or set it on a table the contact/impact surface isn't the glass. If someone put raised rubber bumpers on the 8 corners of a phone it might negate the need for a case for the majority of users and preserve the aesthetics.
- meepmorp 13y agoI didn't need a case for my phone before I had children. Your use case isn't everyone's.
- k-mcgrady 13y agoI think you're missing my point. I've never needed a case for any phone until the 5s. I think the device is just so slippery it's almost unusable without a case. And for a company that prides itself on the design of it's products making it so slippery that a case is necessary is silly. Why spend so much money creating such a nice looking product when your customers have to cover it up?
- meepmorp 13y agoI think we're talking past each other. There's nothing about the iPhone 5s I find especially slippery, but I need a case for purposes orthogonal to yours.
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