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This phone includes many user-hostile design choices. These show that Apple continues to put profit over UX and the environment. :(

- Glass on the back

- Missing no lip to protect the camera and screen when the phone is dropped or placed on on a surface with abrasive particles. Even worse, the camera and screen actually protrude from the case, increasing the chance of damage.

- The edges are not shock-absorbing

- The finish is slippery

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Glass on back is stupid trend. It's fragile and weighty. I suspect that they can't use metals due to Qi support but don't like plastics. I prefer plastics.

Who doesn't use a case? Especially with a $600+ device? Everything you mentioned are the same for the Galaxy phone I just replaced with an iPhone Mini 13.

Well, this isn’t a $600+ device, for starters. :)

$470+ incl tax :)

$459.03 where I’m at.

Yeah, my bad, but my point still stands, no?

Yeah I agree with you. I do sometimes wish that phones were made of ugly textured injection molded nylon or ABS so that we didn’t have to buy cases. Nobody needs a case to protect the finish on their power tools or their remote control or their key fob. But phones have to be pretty to sell so we get delicate shiny designs instead and basically everything needs a case by default.

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