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Because anything put on a screen makes it look like shit to me. I didn't pay that much money on a top of the line phone only to make it look like a low-end one.

I don't understand people with screen protectors. Unless they plan on reselling it.

BTW, I think people with iPhone X but with a screen protector are making a fundamental signaling mistake: you show to people that you can't really afford the phone.

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I don't own an iPhone X but I'm fairly certainly there are X owners who don't care about using the device as a signaling mechanism.

I use a leather case and plastic screen protector (7 Plus) not because I care about resale value, but rather because I don't want to coddle my electronics; I want them to be fairly durable. The way I see it, the dividend from the trend of maximally thin phones is the ability to put them in a robust leather case without them becoming too bulky.

My anecdotal experience has been that a plastic screen protector greatly reduces the likelihood of screen breakage, presumably because the soft plastic can absorb some amount of impact force. I've never ever broken a screen, and I drop my phone fairly often.

I also prefer the finger-feel of the Belkin plastic screen protector. And I enjoy replacing the protector every 6 months or so and walking out of the store with an absolutely perfect, scratch-free screen.

(I tried the Belkin glass screen protector once; it cracked within a month. And I disliked the finger-feel.)

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