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I refuse to use a case on principle. The idea that you need a case to protect a phone from everyday use is so ass-backwards it hurts my brain. (and was not always the situation!)

It would be so much more space, weight, and cost efficient to simply engineer in the durability provided by a case through the use of proper materials and construction. But apparently marketing thinks nobody would buy a phone that looks and feels out of the box the way a phone with a case feels. So we end up with these thin, elegant, glass and polished aluminum devices… that most of the population has to immediately hide inside a bulky plastic/rubber case to have a chance of surviving 6 months.

Imagine if a carmaker sold a premium vehicle with a polished metal and glass exterior that you had to protect under a vinyl wrap to keep it from rusting and chipping under normal use… they’d be a laughing stock!

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rekabis@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Imagine if a carmaker sold a premium vehicle with a polished metal and glass exterior that you had to protect under a vinyl wrap to keep it from rusting and chipping under normal use… they’d be a laughing stock!

tesla cybertruck wanders into chat, spots comment, slinks quietly back out with a red face

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Robust_Mirror@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
A phone doesn’t break under normal use. It breaks under rough use. If you treat a car rough it will get dents and scratches and rust etc.

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HatchetHaro@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
even better yet, make that durable phone shell user-replacable! you can even have those shells in different styles and colours so users can accessorize their devices any way they like! this would also give birth to a thriving industry of aftermarket shells for your phone cases, where small makers can even 3D-print their own shells for sale.

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- Acters@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  I am thinking of the nothing CMF phone 2 rn
  
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MiddleKnight@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
In my experience iPhones (12 and 14 specifically, are the ones I have had) are plenty durable that you can use them without a case.

I do and only have some slight scratches in the screen. Nothing noticeable during normal usage.

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Acters@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Wait doesn’t the cyber truck had an issue where it was possible for it to rust? Not to mention the unreasonably large glass windshield that would be expensive to replace?

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