Q: Iphone built quality
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Oct 21, 2016 11:13 AMby Michael Black,Other than the thickness of the aluminum itself, there is very little difference in the iPhone or laptop cases, so I am not sure what your hoping for? Both are milled from aluminum although I understand somewhat different alloys. Are you saying you wish an iPhone case milled to the same edge and corner thicknesses of a MacBook Pro case, with the added weight and bulk that would inherently add?
They are both aluminum, an inherently fairly soft metal which is easily scratched by anything harder (like a lot of jewelry, silica sand and grit from pockets and purses, etc). If people handled and carried their MacBook Pro's around they way they do their iPhones, I can assure you the two would be equally prone to scratches. You just can't jam your MacBook into your pocket though.
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Oct 21, 2016 12:29 PMby Beezy21wr,It would just be nice for apple to develop a phone where you would not need to purchase a case for it. Having the same built quality as the MacBook Pro would be nice. Maybe they can even have some sort of a rubber inside the phone that prevents the screen from shattering. All these new iphones with their sleek and nice designs are useless because when you throw a case on it, it looks like any other phone....
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Oct 21, 2016 12:45 PMby Michael Black,Short of one of the big, bulky and awkward "ruggedized" smart phones, there is not a single smart phone on the market that I would not put in a case. Anything slim/thin and covered in glass (even the toughest glass) with expensive electronics in it is inherently somewhat easy to break. Thin, slim, light weight and feature packed means compromises in robustness.
But I hardly consider them useless just because I feel I need a case on mine. It is, in the end, nothing more than a telephone with some additional communication and computation features. I only own one at all because I need a phone (my iPhone being my only phone), not to make some kind of fashion or artistic statement. Function trumps form 100% of the time when it comes to any tool, and as nice as I think my iPhone is, it is ultimately just a communications tool.
But, compared to handsets of the 1990's, things have already come such a huge way, its anybody's guess what some engineer or company will come up with next year, or sometime later?
