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iPhone X iPhone X get scratched extremely fast, even with a case
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What on earth are you on about? If you realised what you are talking about then you'd know how silly that sounds. Stainless steels simply gets micro scratches, it is part of the charm and ageing process. Heck my childrens climbing frame is made of wood, it changes colour and opens up and displays cracks, its is part of the material - or should I go complain with the trees?
This has nothing to do with quality control, it is the characteristic of the material that is being used...Don't like it then don't get it. I love it...And from a normal distance you simply can't see it...A normal microfibre eCloth is all it takes to wipe it clean...
Makes me think that none of these yahoos ever took shop class in high school.We are trying to defy physics in this thread, it's fun to watch and read.
If you read my first post you'll understand I said this issue of scratches reminded me of the staingate issue with Macbook screens, because apart from scratches, the iPhone X screen is also getting stained.
Apple doesn't work with glass as if it were putting it in your new house window. It has the technology to adapt it to its products needs, just like it made it adapt to their new campus.
As for what I expect these things to be made from... the best quality and the most innovative technology. Don't you expect the same things from Apple? If I didn't care much about having a premium phone, I'd be buying an Alcatel.
Apple doesn't work with glass as if it were putting it in your new house window. It has the technology to adapt it to its products needs, just like it made it adapt to their new campus.
As for what I expect these things to be made from... the best quality and the most innovative technology. Don't you expect the same things from Apple? If I didn't care much about having a premium phone, I'd be buying an Alcatel.
It would be funny if it wasn't so sad - I bet its the same kind of people that do not know that pork sausage are made from a cute pink pig
There is a concept here in the UK under the Duke of Edinburgh initiative, it gets urban children into the countryside. Always very entertaining when we are walking our dog, or have the horses out. It is like some have never seen an animal in their lives, or that thorny bushes prick your skin...Reading some of the comments here really does make me wonder how some manage...
Unnecesary comparison between wood and the steel/glass materials Apple works with.
The funniest thing is fanboy consumers commenting on other people's education.
It is called drawing a parallel of inherent characteristics of the material being used.
Polished steel is friggin' sexy, and it can last for a long, long time (past the useful life of the phone's technology, for that matter).
So what should they use instead? Go back to al-yoo-min-ee-um? Maybe step up to tungsten carbide -- super-hard, but even heavier than steel? Or maybe make the whole thing out of sapphire like those crazy-expensive Hublot special editions (but then you really wouldn't want to drop it)? Or rubberized plastic like a Zune?
Unless you have a solution, you're just whining. Little kids do that.
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I remember a story here in the US about a similar thing. Urban kids would go on a field trip out to the country, and they'd be frightened of a butterfly.It would be funny if it wasn't so sad - I bet its the same kind of people that do not know that pork sausage are made from a cute pink pig
There is a concept here in the UK under the Duke of Edinburgh initiative, it gets urban children into the countryside. Always very entertaining when we are walking our dog, or have the horses out. It is like some have never seen an animal in their lives, or that thorny bushes prick your skin...Reading some of the comments here really does make me wonder how some manage...
There's two aspects to be worried about -- that they never were able to see enough of a natural environment to be familiar with insects, and that, at the rate things are going, all the butterflies might be gone by the time they grow up anyway.
Maybe they should make the next iPhone out of Duranium?
Water is pretty scratch proof and self-repairing as well...
True! Apple could also work with those cheap 3rd party Amazon case manufacturers who create self healing cases. This seems like an obvious solution. Make the whole phone out of the cheap 3rd party self healing cases on amazon.
Then people can buy machined steel bumpers to make their phones look "premium"!
Let me know when Apple calls you, and I'll let you know when they give me a ring. We obviously have this figured out.
We'll make BANK. I can keep holding onto my 0.0004 BTC in case this doesn't work.
Have you ever looked at the bottom of a display phone at an Apple store? Or anywhere else? They all look like that - Samsung, Apple, LG, etc. People slam them down on the docks or other forms of abuse hundreds of times per day.
Not something you're likely to do to your own.
Do you blame GM or Ford when someone pushes a shopping cart in to your car and damages the finish?
That’s what I did, worked like a charm. I do it every month or so.
Same here. Despite the fact that the stainless scratches easily, when you can easily just polish it off and make it look brand new again it doesn't matter. On all of Apple's previous phones, once you've got a scratch it's there forever.
I polished mine the other night after 6 months and now it looks like I just pulled it out of the box. I hope future generations have the same finish.
I still Expect Apple to offer the iPhone X with the surgical stainless steel bands and space gray again, maybe blush gold being an option that was rumored last year. I know many don’t like the scratching issue, but its a very well-built iPhone and stainless naturally will accrue scratches.
Apple doesn’t build a iPhone for durability it’s really built for technological convenience
As mentioned buff out the scratch on the stainless steel with a cape cod cloth
Is this what we're reduced to? Picking a phone colour based on scratch potential? This thread all sounds a bit mad until u remember some of us have tiny humans or cars that we can't stick a case on and we're not treating them like some are treating a new iPhone
You’re not factoring that an iPhone thread is a small *minority* of individuals who are more particular than the average consumer. You have to have the mindset to expect those who will look at things differently or be more sceptical on a tech forum versus the every day consumer does.
Resale value is important on a 1k+ device...Also a lot of us still use cases so the color isn't that important aesthetically.
I would say your post is kind of confusing. When someone decides to sell a device, you’re selling the device in the current condition, color and storage. So color _is _important in a sense of what somebody is attracted to in some cases and resell value on $1000 device will drop in price no matter what. And when a new model iPhone is announced, the price drops significantly.