Take a import to look at your stupid iPhone , sit there being all stupid . for sure we can all agree it is a very flawed gadget that no one should own . No one could argue with that .
Yes , Fast Company ’s Mark Wilson is backyetagainto tell us how seriously Apple absorb . What would we do without him ?
love our devices in peace and restrained ? Yes , that does vocalize decent . No , there is no style we can stage that . Sorry .
“ Why Wo n’t Apple Fix The iPhone ’s One Huge Design Flaw?”(Tip oxygen ’ the antlers to SamT. )
Hey , the Macalope went to high school with a Hugh Dezineflaw .
[ rimshot ]
Sigh , OK , Mark . We came all this way , so … What is it ?
The iPhone [ 7 ] will still have a glass screen that will shatter if you throw it faulty .
Wilson understands the trade-off here , noting that more undestroyable screens exist but are either plastic or thick . Still , he wants Apple to do something so he ’s asking for one of two thing :
1 . An iPhone that does n’t find as estimable or is thicker .
2 . Magic .
Apple wo n’t do the former and ca n’t do the latter .
Nooo , it reallycan’tdo the latter , no matter what you ’ve heard .
The company has made all kinds of improvement to the iPhone over the eld , all of which seem to make Wilson crazy because Apple prioritize them over the very easy solution of making the screen out ofpure transparent aluminumand merchant vessels client a replacement iPhone every 40 femtosecond when the screen door evaporates because it ca n’t agree its molecular structure any longer than that . sluttish peasy . But Apple wo n’t do it . Sad .
A magnetometer measures the Earth ’s magnetic field to point you in the right direction , and a gyroscopic sensor can measure the gadget ’s pitch , roll , and yaw .
Boat terms . Can you name them all ?
speak of boat terms , Wilson does n’t mention the improvement Apple quietly made to the inner components of the iPhone to make them more water - tolerant . No , the iPhone is not waterproof , but here ’s an representative of the troupe improving iPhone durability and not even saying a word about it .
But none of these problems is as devastating as the one problem we already cognise about : the cover , that touchy , delicate silver screen .
Made of naught but the gossamer wing of faeries ’ tis . One dare not wait at it too hard for awe it shall shrivel to ash .
Apple has prioritized the iPhone ’s aesthetics over UX , and tenner of millions of iPhone users sustain as a result .
Ugh , using this really nice gadget every twenty-four hours is such a burden .
Apple sure be intimate how to sell a product . But does it get how to build one ?
Dude .
According toSquareTrade , 25 % of iPhone users have broken their screenland at some point …
That ’s a link to a two - yr - onetime study by SquareTrade , a ship’s company in the business of sell warranty . Which is a worthful service , you should probably have some kind of warranty on your iPhone whether it ’s from Apple or a third - party like SquareTrade , but it ’s indecipherable if their solvent touch to users’currentiPhone or just an iPhone they once owned . If only a quarter of people have ever cracked an iPhone screen ever , that ’s probably pretty good .
The problem may be that we , as consumer , have n’t sound off aloud enough about their shatter iPhone screens .
Quick ! To the Open - varsity letter - To - Tim - Cook machine !
Apple ’s fetish for delicacy …
Yes , it ’s a fetish for fragility , not design . Mmm - hmm . Indeed .
… is n’t just a laughable oversight on an otherwise well - designed product .
It ’s also a stick we can apply to scramble Apple over the head ! Because surely no other premium smartphones have cover that are less than perdurable because no other manufacturer would make such a laughable-
“ Samsung Galaxy Note 7 and Gorilla Glass 5 scratch quite easily . ”
Huh , well will you look at that article the Macalope found quickly when trying to discover another smartphone made with Gorilla Glass which is not at all severely because most of them are . The funny thing about that is the rationality Gorilla Glass 5 scratches more easily is because it ’s softer to make it more shatter - repellent .
WHY WON’T APPLE PRIORITIZE SCREENS THAT ARE SCRATCHED TO HELL OVER ONES THAT SHATTER ?
Other than the fact that Gorilla Glass 5 only just hail out . It ’s a mystery .
It in reality makes the iPhone a unsuccessful person when it ’s pulled from an Apple Store to face up the rigors of existent - world UX .
The iPhone : The failure that 50 million people every quarter keep purchase into for some ground . Why do they keep bring in poor choices ? credibly market . Could n’t be they like the look of the thing . It certainly is n’t that .
Keep wait for people to see the light and go all - in for phat plastic phone , Mark . Should happen any sidereal day now .
