Not everyone live near a Apple Store, 5 hour drive for me, if totally wrecked I would be without a phone for a week with postage.
Home insurance claim is easier/quicker than Applescare.
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Home insurance claim is easier/quicker than Applescare.
That’s then nice thing about AppleCare, they have the advanced replacement program. All they will do is put a hold on your card, and overnight you a brand new one and you send old one back. Pretty much works the same as insurance but even more efficient.
Doesn’t happen overnight here, 3 days at least, insurance i can get a retail store voucher and get one same day.
Have had applescare in the past so know how it works.
After one month of Spigen Ultra Hybrid, my 14 PM is caseless again. The feel of the steel and glass in the hands is still great.
What's the blue phone on the bottom right? And what's the case? Very nice 👍
Thanks! The blue phone is an iPhone 13 and it’s in a JETech MagSafe case.
I don’t understand the careless thing but we are all different. It wouldn’t work for me because my phone is dropped fairly often and I use it when working outside and it’s placed on concrete and all sorts when I’m out testing. Never bothered with AC as a case has always saved my phones from drips and it worst case scenarios I have insurance on my home. I find bare iPhones to be slippery and harsh to hold to be honest, don’t get the appeal at all.
I've dropped two phones since 2009 sufficiently to merit repair or replacement. iPhone 6+, I cracked the screen. Apple replaced the entire phone for the cost of the screen replacement. That was 2015. 2022, I dropped my 11 Pro Max and Apple replaced it. That's my current phone. Neither had a case, and I am still not using cases.
Quick few questions please - is the case slim and does it show off the lovely blue back?
I have a Spigen liquid crystal clear which is nice and slim, but even though it's clear the blue of the phone is dulled a fair bit.
If the jetech is slim and shows off the colour, I'll be buying 😄
The JETech case is about as slim as an average silicone case. Unfortunately, the back of the case is made of a matte texture which dulls the colour of the phone. It’s not a truly clear case.
Trying out the Apple Clear Case because it's on sale on Amazon
Holy wet bar of soap Batman
Also dirt got in after 1 day, probably because of the open bottom
Will return it lol
Holy wet bar of soap Batman
Also dirt got in after 1 day, probably because of the open bottom
Will return it lol
I’m the opposite. Micro abrasions on the screen make me really tense.
I used to be a case user for 15 years but this time (15 pro) decided not to. Feels so nice and slim.
I had it blemish free for 7 months but then did drop it on a car park getting out my car - few little scuff marks on the rim… I can live with it. I generally treat it with care and respect; that incident was on a bad day for me.
Back when my primary phone was the iPhone 5, I was learning how to handle a phone without a case, so I dropped it a few times. The thing about the 5 though was that the metal on the Black/Slate model (which I have) was anodized to a certain degree. So, you could cover up some slightly rough edges with an emery nail file board and a black paint pen. The gun industry sells these pens that contain black/bluing paint for covering nicks and scratches in gun barrels. Those became really popular around MacRumors in 2012-2013 and it's what I used. The emery board allowed to get rid of a few rough snags in the metal and worked pretty well.
Leaving my one drop aside (it was a bizarre, stressful day) - I noticed that when I treated it like an expensive piece of industrial art/technology, I became *less* clumsy. The mind is a powerful tool it seems.
Although I do wish Apple would make the phone fully repairable with modular parts e.g. screen is easy to fix but the rim casing is not (it seems).
Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately, my clumsiness is 100% disability-related, so even my appreciation for the vast expense of the device only helps so much. In other words, all my days are bizarre and stressful, lol.
