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Captain Mazda wrote:That's because you're an obedient little consumer whore

Chupacabra wrote:

SOAPboy wrote:.

Hey soap. Long time no see.

That's cool you go case-less. I went case-less with my Samsung S3. I figured it'd be nice to have it the way designers intended or whatever. Also I'm not a clumsy guy and I don't use my phone that much. I did however drop it at one point and it cracked my screen. On my new phone (HTC E8) I have a case.

One thing to consider is the frequency of low-probability events. Let's say, I don't know, the chance of you taking out your phone and dropping and breaking your phone is very low at 1% or 0.1% or something along those lines. You figure that you are not a clumsy guy.

The chance you might break your phone is 1 out of a 100 or 1 out of 1000, so you feel fine. But if you take your phone out and look at it 5 or 10 times a day...consider how many times that is in one year. You might very well break your phone even though the chance is slim.

Jared Diamond, the author of Guns, Germs, and Steel, had a good article on this concept here: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/29/scien ... .html?_r=0

Any way, obviously there are other measures you can take like getting insurance on your phone or simply just not caring, but it might be something to think about.

SOAPboy wrote: Its something I've thought about. And its something I used to actually care a heap about. But now that I use my gadget as an appliance, more than as a gadget, I just dont care. Plus I've found that just letting myself use the things as the OEM intended lets me really decide if its a good product or not.