Q: whyis the iphone 6 screen so fragile?

What is it that you are trying not to say?

I'm saying that the durability of the screens are terrible. Most other manufacturers also provide at least one free screen replacement. Apple doesn't. Seems they don't have faith in their own product lasting?

GABKRO wrote:

 

Most other manufacturers also provide at least one free screen replacement.

Please provide citations for that assertion.

If "most other manufacturers " provide one free screen replacement they too have a screen breaking problem, don't they?

And I do not believe that they do.

http://www.samsung.com/africa_en/support/ADH.html

They can put that screen replacement out there, because it won't bankrupt them. They won't have to continually replace screens.

You dropped your phone, in future try not to.

GABKRO wrote:

 

http://www.samsung.com/africa_en/support/ADH.html

How does 1 manufacturer translate to "most"? And, the page you linked to was for a long discontinued phone.

Some manufacturers do offer that feature for specific models.

Meg, the ADH additional coverage seems not even to be Samsung specific.  It looks to be specific to Samsung in South Africa.

Michael Black wrote:

 

Meg, the ADH additional coverage seems not even to be Samsung specific.  It looks to be specific to Samsung in South Africa.

Even less relevant to the discussion, then.

I remember that Motorola offered one time screen replacement for a particular model phone but it was never for the entire line. There are some phones that are advertised as having shatter proof or shatter resistant screens.

Actually, I didn't drop it, it was in my pocket. Here's a thought... try reading the post before replying.

I suppose anything that happens outside of the country that dreams up their own sports and then hosts a "World Series" of a sport only they play, can be considered "less relevant", right?

Doesn't take away from my experience, which indicates that this screen is probably the most fragile of all the phone screens on the market.

Due to the lack of available data comparing different manufacturers to one another, I'm conducting my own research. The outcome will simply give the percentage of screen damage per phone manufacturer.

GABKRO wrote:

 

Doesn't take away from my experience, which indicates that this screen is probably the most fragile of all the phone screens on the market.

No, that's not what your experience means. Your experience, which I am not discounting, simply means your phone broke, It says nothing about iPhones as a group.

GABKRO wrote:

 

I've had multiple smart phones including Blackberry, Nokia & Samsung and I have not cracked one screen in over 10 years. These phones have traveled with me over the bulk of Southern Africa and have come out in perfect condition.

 

I've had the iPhone 6 (not my choice) for two weeks and the screen cracked to the point where it cuts my fingers. I didn't drop the phone either. It went into my pocket in one piece on the drive to work and came out the other side shattered without any noticeable impact that I can remember, like bumping into a disk or similar scenario.

 

Now thinking back, I've not ever seen any of my friends with an iPhone that has a screen still intact?

I can claim just the opposite. I have dozens of friends and colleagues with iphones and many have used iPhones for years. Yet I have seen only a single instance of a broken or cracked screen in many years, and that one fell down a staircase onto a concrete floor. So neither of us can actually say anything at all about how prevalent iphone damaged screens are, relative to the many millions of iphones in use around the world.

You say they're fragile, I disagree with that assertion. And neither of us can prove the other wrong without actual numbers relative to total units sold.

You say other manufacturers offer free screen replacements, but only offer as evidence a single manufacturer's program in a single country, and then only for limited products (does that mean they were just acknowledging that product was likely to be prone to screen breakage?).

So none of this is going to sway anyone from their predilections as it's all based on opinion and limited personal experience.  So this whole discussion is fairly pointless.