Why phone screens aren’t made of plastic or another transparent, hard-to-break material?

Question

My issue is with glass smashing into pieces under the smallest falls

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Answer 1

Hard to break isn’t the only thing you have to take into consideration. You want the material to be scratch proof or scratch resistant as well. The best material that is really hard to break and hard to scratch is glass, or whichever gorilla glass version they use in phones currently; plus it’s thin enough and much more responsive.