I use to waste my money on these things until one day I came to my senses. One, I spent more money replacing these things than I ever wanted. Two, they were actually taking money from me base on a false sense of security, because in reality they did absolutely nothing to further its use or enjoyment of it, in fact in most cases it dumbs down the users visual experience.
Everytime I got a scratch on the screen protector it rendered the screen visually usless. Also too I thought to myself "wow, good thing I had it on otherwise that would have been a scratch on my physical screen" and off I went to purchase yet another package of'em.
Lesson learned? After many phones over 3+ yrs I found that the screen is more resistant to scatches than the plastic film. Where the plastic fails the screen endures which means your phone will look worst more often with the plastic film applied than without.
Lesson two? Its just a phone that I will one day replace, probably sooner than later so why in the world would I settle for inferior looks through a scratchy/ orange peel etc film so that I can sell it to someone else later to finally enjoy what I refused myself of. Does that really really make any sense?
Have we really arrived to the time where we humans deify small hand held electronic devices that goes obsolete faster than most our attention spans....?
Yeah I believe so...