It is easy to misread.
Did you watch the vids.. oy.. total cringe.. freaked me out watching them again before I posted.. especially that last one where he tears the phone to shreds.
It took me almost 3 months to recommend the 15 Pro Max because it is more fragile than the 14 Pro Max. But, it is such a nice phone that it overcomes that issue.. just don’t flex it between your fingers.. it will crack.
You probably couldn’t tell from my post, but I was most aggrieved with the damage to my phone because of my OWN stupidity, not the phone itself.
There is that old story about the Scorpion and the Frog is foremost in my mind. When the Frog was stung by the Scorpion and is baffled by what it had done by killing him (and the Scorpion replied saying You knew what I was, and stinging Frogs is what I do, it is in my nature)
There is a parallel for me: I knew it was in the nature of these phones to break if they land right on a corner in a short fall to a hard surface. Yet like the Frog in the story, I thought I could ferry it across the waters of buying a case for it, because it was only a day or two I would be without a good case, and I could manage the risk.
Accepting, of course, that an iPhone breaking on a short fall to a hard surface is what it would do. Except that I didn’t manage that risk correctly.
When I have a phone in a good case, it has friction, so...standing up from a toilet, bending over to pick up a piece of trash, for the prior five years, I didn’t have any worry about the slick phone sliding out, because the case kept it from easily doing so. Heck, the case created enough friction that pulling it out of my pocket was sometimes a challenge.
So, when I bent over as I stood up, the muscle memory of the prior five years kicked in, and I didn’t protect that phone which slid out as if it had a coating of silicone spray on it, and hit the floor at just the right angle.
I couldn’t believe it. And it was all on me.