Again: one of my points is making up numbers to support Apple spin. "To my observation"??? Really? So if you only observe 1 person adorning their iDevice in feathers, are 100% of all iDevices adorned in feathers?
"To MY observation" more than 5% make their iDevices thicker by wrapping them in something and many in my observable pool seem to wrap them in something to give them more battery life.
Which "to my observation" is more accurate? Your "less than 5%" or my "more than 5%"?
Here's a bit of actual information: http://www.quora.com/What-percentage-of-iphones-have-cases-or-skins-from-third-parties and here's another: http://gizmodo.com/5420874/forty-percent-of-you-clowns-use-a-case-on-your-phones. One claims 80% and the other 40%. Neither close to <5%.
And no one's doing ME any favor by using a case or not using one. My point was "when is thin, thin enough?" If we keep achieving "thinner" for marketing spin by jettisoning guts (like battery), we increasingly have to make up for the loss of such utility by adding it back in via external gadgets (like battery cases).
As is- in my own situation- an iPhone can't get through a day of use without a re-charge. So minimally (for me), that means carrying along a cable & charger and looking for opportunities to charge. Or, I can wrap it in a protective, battery case to give me a day's use and make it just a bit thicker. The latter works for me. I'm not the only one. And 5% of us are not the only one's either.
Of course, I'd rather have the bigger battery inside instead of the extra baggage of product walls against product walls but heaven forbid that the next iPhone would keep the same thickness in the name of a tangible benefit like more battery life. It must be thinner, d*mnit. Hopefully, Apple just jettisons the entire battery so that the next one can be much thinner (WOW!) and then we can return to a corded phone world (where the cord provides the juice). I want much thinner! Com'on Apple, do me a "small favor" and get rid of everything you can inside the next iPhone so that you can make the case as thin as possible. But keep the price the same of course; it's also very important to "me" that a massive corporation makes as much money as possible (even by jettisoning consumer utility by making us believe that there is some tangible benefit in making these things even thinner than they are now).
You might have a valid argument if a large percent of those surveyed were using cases that extended battery life not just cases that protected the device from harm or, in the case of iPads, held a keyboard. When you can find a survey showing forty to eighty percent use cases that extend battery life, then you might have a valid argument.
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