Eli5 why dont phone companies make smart phones harder to break?
In: Economics
The majority of “broken” phones just have a cracked screen.
They crack easily because they are made out of harder materials.
In the past they made them out of softer materials, but over the course of normal use these screens would become scratched, and people didn’t like this.
So now they make them out of hard, non scratchable materials, so they don’t scratch, but break if you get really unlucky and drop them in the wrong way.
This is because harder materials fracture instead of bending.
As for the rest of the phone if they made it tougher, it would be heavier, bulkier, and more expensive.
Someone who wants a lighter, slimmer and cheaper phone would not want to buy it.
The person who wants a tougher phone can just buy a tougher case.
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