Apple hit with class-action suit after girl drops, breaks iPhone 4's glass

Apple Insider ^ | Thursday, January 27, 2011 | By Slash Lane

[BigCinBigD]

I don't think he understands...The gravity of the situation.

[4rcane]

sue for false advertising. Apple is definately guilty of it. Its no where strong/durable than plastic. It does break fairly easy when you drop it

[4rcane]

i held off buying iphone4 specifically because I knew the glass is not as good as advertised. You could very easily, pay $900 for the phone and then break it the next day

[seton89]

He didn’t install the iLevitation app.

[Doomonyou]

It’s a phone for crying out loud. You need to take care of it. Don’t drop it dumb ass.

[Swordmaker]

sue for false advertising. Apple is definately guilty of it. Its no where strong/durable than plastic. It does break fairly easy when you drop it

This glass is... it's Corning® Gorilla Glass... have you ever dropped a Corning ware bowl?

[publana]

Replacement glass only costs around $15. Doesn’t the eejit know how to wield a screwdriver?

[PA Engineer]

More specifically, LeBuhn said that he paid over $250 in September for a new iPhone 4 only to have it rendered essentially useless after his daughter dropped it from a height of roughly three feet while attempting to send a text message.

At 40mph I got asphalt burn. Kid. Car seat. BS.

[thecabal]

Only if the "eejit" was lucky enough to get his hands on one of Apple's proprietary screwdrivers.

[teletech]

I don't think he understands...The gravity of the situation.

It wasn't the fall that killed his I-Phone, it was the sudden stop!

[publana]

Dunno what type of screwdriver my husband used to replace his glass. He said it wasn’t a big deal to replace.

[James C. Bennett]

Glass is the one of the main reasons why I prefer Apple’s wares over that of the others.

Combined with the advantage of a beautifully flat, glossy, scratch-resistant screen, the optical clarity is unbeatable. Plastic simply cannot match. These advantages alone are significant enough to persuade an owner to take extra care of such glassy products.

Plastic displays may accommodate a more diverse variety in terms of shape, but the crisp, neat and clean bevelled edges of the glass that Apple uses more than makes up for the inability to sculpt glass into funky, tacky shapes.

An additional disadvantage plastic poses is the formation of moulding artifacts - this is clearly visible when you hold any plastic screen product in polarised light. Glass doesn’t suffer as much, if even.

If Apple switches over to plastic because of this stupid lawsuit, it will be a loss for excellent functional and industrial design.

[Doomonyou]

No he’s too stupid, he’s just a loser who is looking for $$$$.

[publana]

Aaaah.. just read about the screwdriver. I ordered that screwdriver when I purchased my 2009 macbook pro. I suspect he used my screwdriver. I paid $6 for it; so make that $15 + $6 = $21.

[freekitty]

Sounds like another tort lawyer at work.

[PA Engineer]

You could very easily, pay $900 for the phone and then break it the next day

Where does one pay $900 for it. Do you have a link. I call BS.

[BigCinBigD]

Yup. A case of...Cement poisoning.

[earglasses]

Dropped my (first generation) iPhone in the toilet the other day. Immediately pulled it out, shook out whatever water would come out with a tapping, and taped the bottom of the phone to my shop vac and let the sucker run for twenty minutes.

Then stuck the phone into a bag of rice for several hours. Yes, I discarded the rice after I pulled out the phone.

Even though the phone’s screen was blinking like it was about to explode after I pulled it out of the loo, and even though its screen showed evidence of water between the glass and the lcds for hours after insertion into the rice, I am pleased to report that it now works like nothing bad has happened to it at all.

I love my iPhone. And I’m a PC desktop kind of guy...

[Bullish]

Why the heck in this day and age would they make a breakable friggin’ screen?

They can't be that stupid, can they?