Every year (and it’s worth remembering, not exclusive to Apple devices) there’s reports of how easily scratched the screens, and/or, backs of devices are.
Personally, I’ve never experienced this problem to any great degree. Sure, after a yet or two of use there’s a few micro-scratches, totally unavoidable unless you’re all cased and screen protector safe.
But, as I often say, no-one should base any decision on what they read in forums/Reddit/Facebook/Twitter and so on. For one simple reason, people like to have a bloody good moan about things.
It’s an undeniable fact that you will always hear significantly more complaints about any product, from any company, than you will the good things.
Simply because, if you’ve nothing to complain about, you're less likely to go to one of these places and say, ‘Hey, I got the new iPhone and there’s nothing wrong with it’. Just count, if you could ever be bothered, the number of posts/threads of people complaining about something, for any product you like, and you’ll find that the complaining posts far and away outnumber anything else. It’s just human nature.
If I based my purchasing decisions on the feedback I read on the internet, I’d never buy anything. There comes a point when you just have to accept that problems with any product are an absolute possibility - no-one can achieve a 0% failure rate.
So, there’s always going to be faults, there’s always going to be minor issues and there’s always going to be people who are perfectly happy with their purchases.
Take some solace in the fact that while the number of complaints you’ll read about far outnumber the non-complainers, the people who are happy enough with their purchase actually significantly outnumber them, just look at the sales figures. If people weren’t happy, they wouldn’t buy them, they wouldn’t upgrade to newer models.
At the end of the day, buy from someone with a good returns policy. If you’re not happy, take it back, no harm done.
Jeeeezzzz, I waffle on when my meds kick in
