We love our devices, don’t we? Our laptops, and smartphones,
and tablets. I have all three, and I marvel at how well they work.
Also I marvel at how pretty they are. Every evening I plug
my iPhone in to charge, and it lies there pulsing with green light like a
fragment of kryptonite, and I think: how lovely!
But how fragile also.
A few weeks ago, I was taking pictures in a field of weeds
with my iPhone. I leaned down for a closeup of some Japanese knotweed, and –
Oops! Flip! Crash!
I’ve dropped my phone at least a dozen times before, and
I’ve always been lucky: it always landed on a soft surface. This time, it
landed on a jagged-edged paving stone.
The phone itself was unfazed. The glass covering, however,
was shattered into a million pieces.
They can be fixed. Mine was an iPhone5, so the repair was
not cheap. Luckily it was a business phone, so the company paid for the repair.
But – still!
Since then, I’ve ordered a nice smothery cover for my phone,
which will enfold it like a mother’s love.
Why do companies make beautiful slim little phones that slip
right out of your hand like baby eels? Everyone buys a rubber/plastic guard for
his/her phone. I hate that – why have
a beautiful thing and disguise it? – and kept mine in a kind of holster. The holster
didn’t protect it from that damned paving stone.
Apple / Samsung / everyone else: stop making things
ultra-thin, if it means we have to buy ultra-thick covers to protect them.
It’s just ridiculous.
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