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Comment by criddell | Hacker News Reader

Why not just put a case on it?

Billions of dollars in research and industrial design, thousands of man-hours sourcing the perfect materials, hundreds of thousands of hours of engineering that give a device a most perfect feel.

Only to be placed in a $10 case with bunny ears so it won't crack if you accidentally drop it.

Exactly!

Slim sleack shiny phones which break when dropped. Easily dropped because of shiny slippery surface.

What to do? Put some cheap something around it.....

And I'm wondering why people ask me why I don't have a case around my phone.

I don't get the thin phone to have more space for the plastic protection that's why...

Frankly I think it makes perfect sense that a phone come without protection built in so that I can swap out the protection myself and, after a couple years, I'm not stuck with a banged up device.

This doesn't seem weird or contradictory to me at all. Nothing seems cheaper to me than my girlfriend's Android phone with rubber bumpers built in. Meanwhile my iPhones with cases look brand new when I'm ready to sell them.

I agree with you. I was just saying that if you want a rugged phone, then you can accomplish that with a case.

I'd prefer that the ruggedizing were built into the phone itself, they could probably space components out a bit better for heat dissipation and add maybe add a second port.

It is sort of hilarious that miniaturization has gotten so far that we purposefully de-miniaturize miniaturized goods.

$10 case? Brother if I drop $1,899 on a tablet it's going in a $130 Otterbox Defender and I'll consider it money well spent.

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