Caseless phones become status symbol for attention-seeking rich
Attention seekers have discovered an exciting new way to broadcast their financial security: raw-dogging their $1200 smartphones.
These brave tech bros are boldly declaring that phone cases are for the poors. "I have expensive pants too, should I wear an extra pair of pants to protect them?" asks startup CEO Yousef Ali, apparently unaware that pants typically cost less than a month's mortgage payment.
The Beeb's Thomas Germain spent a month testing this lifestyle choice, watching his phone bounce off various surfaces like a Trump Jr failing upward. His display survived, protected by something called Gorilla Glass, which sounds like a rejected Dwayne Johnson movie title but is actually some fancy ion-bath science that helps phones survive drops from over 6 feet. That's assuming you don't hit that one magic angle that turns your iPhone into a $1200 abstract art installation.
Germain went back to using a case, presumably because he enjoys having both a working phone and food in his refrigerator.
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Look at me Ma, I'm ahead of a trend.
I got a new-at-the-time iPhone 13, shortly after it came out, and never bothered to buy a case, partly because I'm lazy, and partly because I don't like how they interfere with the buttons, the bulk, the increased friction with pockets.
I have dropped my phone repeatedly, including on concrete a few times, and it is completely fine. Some extremely minor damage to the sides of the phone, but absolutely no damage to the front or back, or to the buttons. Previous iPhones were far more fragile. But maybe cases really aren't necessary any longer?
End stage capitalism sure is a hoot.