Imagine for one moment that the iPhone screen could be made from lab grown diamond, this would mean it would be scratch resistant to all other materials except a diamond itself. Basically unshatterable. Would you be willing to pay a extra $300.
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I would rather apply a $15 high quality Spigan screen protector.
I have broken 1 in 2 years and it was due to a 5ft drop on a concrete carpark.
The phone was still immaculate which is all that matters. The $15 pack includes 2 screen protectors so I haven’t incurred any further expenses.
There seems to me a misconception that scratch resistance is comparable to break resistance. A mobile device needs to have a screen with a certain amount of flexibility due to heat and other environmental temps that cause expansion and contraction. If you have a material that's too rigid then that material with either break or cause other structural issues around the screen. The closest thing to a diamond like screen protector is sapphire made by Shellrus. Extremely scratch resistant but very brittle.
Manufacturing+price+general usability make diamond fused anything a bad idea.
Manufacturing+price+general usability make diamond fused anything a bad idea.
Their quality has gone downhill lately. I just had to return one set due to not sticking at the edges. Others have the same issue too in the reviews.
No, this is not how this works. The thinner the slice of a harder material means it will be more prone to shattering even if it's less prone to scratching. Think about how a diamond is shaped: Their hardness makes them easy to cleave into facets.
As someone who has tried all the top brand (e.g. Spigen, Flolab) the new Dbrand versions are actually really good.
Imagine getting your phone stolen not for its electronics but for its screen being made of diamonds 🤣
Scratch-resistant and unshatterable are two different things, and are two opposing goals in material science. A thin diamond sheet would shatter very easily. IPhone screens have become less scratch-resistant (softer) in recent years in order to be more shatter-resistant. Maybe that’s because larger screen sizes are inherently more shatter-prone, whereas scratch resistance is independent of screen size. So if you want both higher scratch resistance and higher shatter resistance, demand smaller screens.
That’s funny, but diamonds are actually quite cheap to make nowadays. It’s natural diamonds that are artificially kept expensive for no good reason.
That is what I was thinking, maybe the screen could be cheap enough that it would only cost apple an extra $40 or something.
I don’t think that they don’t use diamonds because of cost. They don’t use diamonds because they are unfit for the purpose, likely being quite shatter-prone at the requisite dimensions.