Other Obsessiveness over protection and flawless condition

[Bogstandard]

Is this one of those; "If you don't prefer something , you're a hater", "If you're careful with something, you're an obsessive", threads?
Just trying to get my head around this concept of ownership.🤷‍♂️

 

[eyoungren]

Screen protectors are a sacrificial layer and are effective at preserving the original glass underneath. Similar to wearing a helmet, elbow pads, or sunscreen. Protective gear reduces injury.

Those flexible films don't offer much screen protection from a fall but I'm also not throwing my phone off buildings. Tempered glass screen protectors saved our displays numerous times over the years and I'm always relieved to have it after a bad drop.

Alternatively, if you drop your phone in just the RIGHT spot you can shatter the screen but leave the screen protector flawless! This way, the screen protector keeps your fingers from being sliced up when you use the phone.

How do I know? I dropped my 6+ in exactly that right spot! Zero damage to the screen protector and kept my fingers protected until I got a replacement.

 

[davedvdy]

From my perspective, for me it’s utterly delusional for an inanimate object to bring joy. It’s just an object that is a tool, could be happy with it yes. Conversing with real life is real. Makes me wonder if some here copulate with their phones🥹

If you truly have children as you say, then you should know more than many here on a daily how "inanimate objects" can bring a child joy. Children LOVE toys for example, and they bring them joy. Are toys inanimate objects or are they living beings? Writing Santa a list of products that they want then waiting in excitement for Christmas to roll through?? LOL.


As for labeling everything as OCD, that is a problem in this society with putting everyone in a box that doesn't fit their criteria for how someone should behave. Leave the labels for true psychiatrists that are both competent AND credible.

 

[VuvuzelaiPhone]

From my perspective, for me it’s utterly delusional for an inanimate object to bring joy. It’s just an object that is a tool, could be happy with it yes. Conversing with real life is real. Makes me wonder if some here copulate with their phones🥹

This is a very ignorant take. It certainly isn’t descriptive based on human history, so I can only assume this is prescriptive, but you’ve made no argument for that.

 

[Ta0jin]

It’s also baffling how screen protectors claim to prevent the glass from shattering after a big drop. That’s like if I told you putting on a jacket can prevent your bones from breaking after falling off a building.

No disrespect, but I don’t think that’s quite the same.

It’s a piece of glass protecting another piece of glass so I would say it’s more like somebody going to punch you in the chest and you put somebody in front of you and that person absorbs the punch rather than you getting hurt.

 

[sjperformance]

Enjoy your devices. Enjoy life. Sweat the bigger things in life not the small ones.

 

[Ta0jin]

Alternatively, if you drop your phone in just the RIGHT spot you can shatter the screen but leave the screen protector flawless! This way, the screen protector keeps your fingers from being sliced up when you use the phone.

How do I know? I dropped my 6+ in exactly that right spot! Zero damage to the screen protector and kept my fingers protected until I got a replacement.

That did happen to a friend of mine, who had a 7+ and because the screen protectors did not go edge to edge. It hit something right in that little area where there was a gap. Luckily now the screens are flat, screen protectors pretty much go to edge to edge, and so odds of that are a lot lower, which is great.

 

[Ta0jin]

Is this one of those; "If you don't prefer something , you're a hater", "If you're careful with something, you're an obsessive", threads?
Just trying to get my head around this concept of ownership.🤷‍♂️

Pretty much, I almost wonder if the OP posted the question and got some popcorn to see the drama unfold between the two camps lol

 

[Fred Zed]

Yep, baffling why police officers were stab/bullet proof vests, bikers wear helmets and construction workers wear hard hats.

Baffling.

Yeah and some men wear long Johns.

 

[Andeddu]

Yeah and some men wear long Johns.

That’s more protection against cold weather, but yeah… lol.

 

[Fred Zed]

That’s more protection against cold weather, but yeah… lol.

You know what I was going to say right. Before the edit.

 

[Nimbkoll]

Screen protectors are a sacrificial layer and are effective at preserving the original glass underneath. Similar to wearing a helmet, elbow pads, or sunscreen. Protective gear reduces injury.

Those flexible films don't offer much screen protection from a fall but I'm also not throwing my phone off buildings. Tempered glass screen protectors saved our displays numerous times over the years and I'm always relieved to have it after a bad drop.

I would love to see some kind of study about the effectiveness of screen protectors, doing test by giving the surface impact of equal strength and quantify the difference they make.

A helmet has lots of material to dampen the impact. With the amount of material on a screen protector, it’s more like a beanie or a cowboy hat.

Have you considered that your screen might not have shattered anyways in those event where your screen protector shattered?

 

[Nimbkoll]

Yep, baffling why police officers were stab/bullet proof vests, bikers wear helmets and construction workers wear hard hats.

Baffling.

Stab/bulletproof vests don’t protect you from impact from a fall. Biker helmets are quite thick and absorb impact by crumpling.

Why would you consider a screen protector to be analogous to the items you listed when it comes to preventing your glass from shattering?

 

[Andeddu]

Stab/bulletproof vests don’t protect you from impact from a fall. Biker helmets are quite thick and absorb impact by crumpling.

Why would you consider a screen protector to be analogous to the items you listed when it comes to preventing your glass from shattering?

Protection. Much like using a case in conjunction with a screen protector. If you are arguing against the efficacy of a screen protector without a case, I can agree with you to a certain extent.

By failing to use a case your phone can land at an awkward angle resulting in enough force to cause the screen to shatter despite the application of a screen protector. To me, it’s only really useful if used alongside a case.

A screen protector on its own protects your phone from scratches but not much else.

 

[Andeddu]

You know what I was going to say right. Before the edit.

Yep. I believe someone else mentioned something earlier in the thread along the lines of using them when going with hookers 🤣

 

[Nimbkoll]

Protection. Much like using a case in conjunction with a screen protector. If you are arguing against the efficacy of a screen protector without a case, I can agree with you to a certain extent.

By failing to use a case your phone can land at an awkward angle resulting in enough force to cause the screen to shatter despite the application of a screen protector. To me, it’s only really useful if used alongside a case.

A screen protector on its own protects your phone from scratches but not much else.

I’m glad you understood the point I was making. I do agree that screen protectors prevent scratches and thick rubber cases absorb impacts. It’s the claim that screen protectors prevent screen shatters that I have doubts on.

Again, I would love to be able to find studies that quantify screen protectors’ ability to prevent shatters by AB testing screen with / without protector and impacting them with equal strength.

 

[Andeddu]

I’m glad you understood the point I was making. I do agree that screen protectors prevent scratches and thick rubber cases absorb impacts. It’s the claim that screen protectors prevent screen shatters that I have doubts on.

Again, I would love to be able to find studies that quantify screen protectors’ ability to prevent shatters by AB testing screen with / without protector and impacting them with equal strength.

I would suggest that screen protectors provide minimal protection vs impact as they are unable to absorb energy without passing it onto the panel itself.

The people who use screen protectors only are barking up the wrong tree if they think it’ll protect their display from drops.

I agree, I would like to see an actual study on the matter.

 

[Ta0jin]

I would suggest that screen protectors provide minimal protection vs blunt impact as they are unable to absorb energy without passing it onto the panel itself.

The people who use screen protectors only are barking up the wrong tree if they think it’ll protect their display from drops.

I agree, I would like to see an actual study on the matter.

I don’t know about a scientific study but personally all I know is my sister has dropped her phones for years and she has cracked multiple screen protectors but never the screen itself. Including ones where the point of damage has been blunt force impact. Let’s call it a personal field study lol.

As far as something more scientific look up mobilereviewseh on YouTube I hear he does tests on screen protectors and such.

 

[jm31828]

It’s just that some people are wired to care more about the cosmetics of the things they purchase. I have 10 year old Nike shoes that look almost brand new. I watch where I walk and rotate between pairs often.

Yeah, same here. It's not- to what others have said- that these objects like my iPhone are more important than the things that really matter in my life, but I just really take care of the things that I have, because they did take money and effort to be able to afford- and so I want to not only keep them functional for as long as possible, but also to keep them looking new as long as possible.

This is the same with my car, and my laptop, and pretty much everything else I have. It's not hard for me as I guess I'm just always a careful person- it's not an obsession, it's just a habit at this point to treat these things with care and it happens without even thinking about it.

 

[reeneebob]

It’s just a phone.

No case, no screen protector. I always buy a case when I buy the phone, use it for a couple of months, and then go caseless.

It’s not precious to me. It’s a phone. That’s all. I have AppleCare if something catastrophic happens.

 

[Andeddu]

I don’t know about a scientific study but personally all I know is my sister has dropped her phones for years and she has cracked multiple screen protectors but never the screen itself. Including ones where the point of damage has been blunt force impact. Let’s call it a personal field study lol.

As far as something more scientific look up mobilereviewseh on YouTube I hear he does tests on screen protectors and such.

Interesting. While a screen protector alone is better than nothing, a case is far more important. I have never used a screen protector alone so have no personal experience to offer.

Scratches are commonplace so I guess most people use them to protect their screen from that rather than actual drops.

 

[Andeddu]

It’s just a phone.

No case, no screen protector. I always buy a case when I buy the phone, use it for a couple of months, and then go caseless.

It’s not precious to me. It’s a phone. That’s all. I have AppleCare if something catastrophic happens.

Why use a case for a couple of months? What’s the rationale in that?

 

[reeneebob]

Why use a case for a couple of months? What’s the rationale in that?

Simply because I bought it for situations where I might need a case and feel obligated to use it. It’s always an Apple leather case. And it always ends up in a drawer in the end.

Otherwise I use the MagSafe pop socket on the naked phone. I dropped my sierra blue numerous times and had a small scratch on the corner that you had to hold at an angle to see. Even dropped it on pavement and it was fine. The pop socket allows extra grip when needed and as a bonus it has my cats on it. Heh.

 

[AeroSatan]

I don't know if I have OCD or not, maybe I do? But if I get a coveted expensive gadget, a nice watch, a camera, a nice expensive pen....it really bums me out if I dent or notice a scratch on It even though I've babied it and haven't had an accident I can recall. Having an explicit accident is one thing, that is understandable but seeing surprise scotches and dents really bums me out, especially in the honeymoon phase. That feeling eventually subsides and has gotten better with age but in my mid 20's, it wouldn't be out of character for me to replace whole devices due to unsightly dents. I enjoy keeping my nice, hard earned luxury items to remain looking as nice as possible and when they're not it just really brings me down. Deep down I understand it's irrational and its only an inanimate object a tool...and yet that feeling of making the item almost obsolete, I can't shake.

 

[NeonNights]

Stab/bulletproof vests don’t protect you from impact from a fall. Biker helmets are quite thick and absorb impact by crumpling.

Why would you consider a screen protector to be analogous to the items you listed when it comes to preventing your glass from shattering?

They were examples of protective equipment. Screen protectors guard against not only scratches but also absorb an impact and distribute the force by fracturing and cracking, thus blunting the force transmitted directly to the screen beneath.

Not sure why it's so difficult for some people to understand or believe the benefits of tempered glass screen protectors. Every smartphone and tablet in our family that suffered a cracked screen protector over the years has never damaged the original display itself. Maybe if you drop your phone from the 12th floor balcony of a hotel then there's no hope, but screen protectors certainly offer a reasonable level of defense against typical everyday drops (off a counter or tabletop, getting out of a car, from ear height, etc.).

Prior to using screen protectors I paid to replace my display on an HTC One M7 and replaced a display myself on another Samsung phone. Early film screen protectors offered little protection with unsightly bubbles, but I'm talking about tempered glass screen protectors and they've proven their worth many times over for our family. Across dozens of devices over the years we've replaced multiple screen protectors after accidental drops and zero damage transferred to the original screen.