I Dropped My iPhone Yesterday
I had a lunch meeting yesterday and as I was going back to my car afterwards I reached (naturally) to my pants pocket in order to fetch my iPhone. I fumbled, the iPhone dropped and hit the parking lot ground. Hard. My iPhone doesn’t have a protective case. Nor a protective film on its screen. So what happened to it? Almost nothing. A few little scratches on the corners. The screen glass didn’t break. The phone continued to work without any problems.
What’s so remarkable about this incident is how unremarkable something like this has become. Small consumer electronic devices, and iPhones in particular, are extremely resilient these days. Just a few short years ago an incident like this would have permanently destroyed my phone. In order to get this kind of robustness out of a device you pretty much needed to get industrial or military-grade technology. That weighed a ton. And was extremely impractical for the everyday use. We’ve really come a long way in just a few short years.
About the Author
Bojan Tunguz
Bojan Tunguz was born in Bosnia and Herzegovina, which he and his family fled during the civil war for the neighboring Croatia. Over the past two decades he has studied, lived and worked in the United States. He is a theoretical physicist with degrees from Stanford and University of Illinois. Tunguz has taught physics at several prominent liberal arts colleges and has been writing about physics, science and technology for more than a decade. He also has a wide spectrum of interests, and reads and writes about current events, society, culture, religion and politics. Over the years he has reviewed many of the books that he has read, and posted his reviews on various online outlets. In 2011 he had become a top 10 reviewer on Amazon.com, where he continues to be very active. Aside from reading and writing, Tunguz enjoys traveling, digital photography, hiking, and fitness. He resides with his wife in Indiana. You can follow my review updates on the following pages as well: Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/tunguzreview Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/tunguzreviews Google+: https://plus.google.com/u/0/104312842297641697463/posts
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