On flip side, spend $1299 on a sleek design phone, have to put it in a bulky case worth <$20 because they cannot be bothered to make phones durable anymore
The casing isn't the expensive part of the phone. The screen and internals are. Hell, even the expensive parts don't justify the crazy price. Still, if they built the phone to survive drop tests the cost would go up significantly.
Good analogy, but not how you think. They are extremely expensive when you get good ones. A much, much higher percentage of the total vehicle cost than the housing of an iPhone is to the total iPhone cost. If the housing of an iPhone carried the same percentage cost of the phone, you would be paying much more, as I said. At this point, it's accepted that the majority of people will purchase a case for a phone. If it became common practice for everyone to change their tires immediately after purchase, you would see even cheaper tires being put on initially than currently are.
They'd just look cheap as hell and eventually overheating issues would arrive because these phones generate a hella lot more heat than the older plastic phones. There's really no solution other than getting a case. There's no reason not to anyway, they're cheap and preserves your phone and its value.
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u/HearTheEkko 19d ago
Spends $1299 on a phone but doesn’t bother to buy a case, even a cheap one.