Also, on the iPhones it has actually made the device more annoying because of a very simple thing: the back is not flat! This creates a very bad experience when the phone is on a table or any surface. So
the ideal phone would not be an iPhone SE as many suggest this week, it would be an iPhone SE with a flat back, whatever the camera is.
Oh, I don’t know - I treat it like the $1K device it is and I have only ever broke one screen in over a decade. Stuff happens - oh well. I love the thinness and weight of the iPhone and detest the bulk and weight added by cases. Just don’t toss stuff around haphazardly.
Also, the Apple Watch has dramatically cut down on the number of times I have to fish my phone out of my pocket; usage patterns shouldn’t be discounted.
If I had kids using my phone all the time or was constantly juggling it I might feel differently, but I reject the notion that everyone should just put their phone in a case and that be considered the norm.
It has nothing to do with Steve Jobs or Apple. I've never owned an iPhone. Every single Android phone I've owned, I used a case. Same with pretty much everyone I know who has moved beyond the flip phone. It's just a fact of life for pretty much everyone.
I never used a case, ever on any iPhone, and never broken any. I still have the non flat back issue. Does that mean I must buy something more to my x00$ phone to make it behave "normally"?
Not only are there cases, which resolve the issue, but most people use phones while held in their hand, so the bump doesn’t lie against anything. The problem with the bump is purely aesthetic.
Why should a phone be required to lie flat on its back? And if raised a little by a bump, how does that impair usage? What’s the defect? The bump, if anything, is a feature, because it prevents the whole back of the phone from being placed against a surface and possibly being scratched.
It's not a defect. You want the phone to work differently from how it was designed, and you have a tool to achieve that (a case). You can use the tool, or rage at something you don't have the power to change.
