How much do Americans spend on damaged iPhones? [Infographic] | 9to5Mac - 1 views
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Melissa Yu on 20 Sep 12Over the past few years, the iphone has become much more popular. It's thin, light and efficient design has attracted many users. However, despite the improvements made to the phone over the years it still remains rather fragile. Our society has become so reliant on technology, yet our day to day life is very hazardous to these delicate electronics. Every day, people drop, kick, and spill on their iphones and end up with a broken phone. You'd think because of this constant issue iPhones would be made sturdier so that it can make it through the day, however, in the last year 30% of iphone users have damaged their phone. Iphones come at such high prices. We expect that when we buy one, we have not only bought a phone that can meet our daily expectations, but one that can also last through the day. Hopefully, this is an improvement that we will see on the new iPhone5. I think that as great as the new iPhone features are, they should also be focusing on making it last, because if the phone breaks what good are the new features? My sister had dropped her iphone a couple of times and part of the screen had cracked. However, despite the damage she had still had to use and rely on this old, cracked phone for a few more months until she could get it replaced, due to the costs of getting it repaired. It had caused her some problems and I'm sure many other iphone users have encountered this issue. I don't think the goal is to make it easier or cheaper to repair iphones, but rather make it so that less people need repairs.