Casey Liss

Are you putting it in your pocket with keys?

I think this trade-off is the one Apple would say is the right one. It's better to people... Because you've seen people use screens that are just destroyed. So people's tolerance for using screens that are messed up is great. But shattering is over a lot of people's limits. So the trade-off is essentially, you can make it more scratch-proof, but then it's going to be more prone to shattering.

I think this trade-off is the one Apple would say is the right one. It's better to people... Because you've seen people use screens that are just destroyed. So people's tolerance for using screens that are messed up is great. But shattering is over a lot of people's limits. So the trade-off is essentially, you can make it more scratch-proof, but then it's going to be more prone to shattering.

And so the balance Apple has chosen is... It's going to get a bunch of little hairline scratches all over it if you do whatever the hell Casey's doing. But it will be more resistant to full-blown shattering when you drop it.

And so the balance Apple has chosen is... It's going to get a bunch of little hairline scratches all over it if you do whatever the hell Casey's doing. But it will be more resistant to full-blown shattering when you drop it.

And despite the fact that that might annoy some of us who, like, if you're very careful with your phone, a harder screen that was more scratch-resistant would be better for you. But hell, I've dropped my phone plenty of times. It's dropped off my nightstand onto a wooden floor plenty of times. I've dropped it off the dining room table onto a wooden floor. Yeah, but you're in a case, aren't you?

And despite the fact that that might annoy some of us who, like, if you're very careful with your phone, a harder screen that was more scratch-resistant would be better for you. But hell, I've dropped my phone plenty of times. It's dropped off my nightstand onto a wooden floor plenty of times. I've dropped it off the dining room table onto a wooden floor. Yeah, but you're in a case, aren't you?

Yeah, I'm in a case. But you could still get unlucky with the way it falls in that situation. So I've dropped it enough times that I'm glad that it is as shadow-resistant as it is.

Yeah, I'm in a case. But you could still get unlucky with the way it falls in that situation. So I've dropped it enough times that I'm glad that it is as shadow-resistant as it is.

On the other hand, you will care much more than they will. If you're the type of person who's getting a screen protector because you can't send even a single scratch on your screen, have fun dealing with that single speck of dust that did get under there.

On the other hand, you will care much more than they will. If you're the type of person who's getting a screen protector because you can't send even a single scratch on your screen, have fun dealing with that single speck of dust that did get under there.

You didn't even mention the plain iPhone 15, and I want to say that I think this year is one of the rare cases where Apple seems to have gotten caught with their pants down a little bit by the AI thing. They shipped a line of phones, the 15 and the 15 Pro, seemingly without realizing that that 15 wouldn't be able to run next year's headlining feature.

You didn't even mention the plain iPhone 15, and I want to say that I think this year is one of the rare cases where Apple seems to have gotten caught with their pants down a little bit by the AI thing. They shipped a line of phones, the 15 and the 15 Pro, seemingly without realizing that that 15 wouldn't be able to run next year's headlining feature.

They're going to ship... Maybe they won't ship it by then because they're not shipping Apple Intelligence, but they could have ended up shipping Apple Intelligence that wouldn't work on their latest non-pro phone if they had actually shipped Apple Intelligence before the new phones came out.

They're going to ship... Maybe they won't ship it by then because they're not shipping Apple Intelligence, but they could have ended up shipping Apple Intelligence that wouldn't work on their latest non-pro phone if they had actually shipped Apple Intelligence before the new phones came out.

I think it's unprecedented for a one-year-old phone not to be able to run the headlining feature of the next OS that came out after it a year later. And I just have to think it's because they didn't think that, oh, we can cheap out on the RAM on the 15. It's a big deal. The iPhone's got plenty of RAM. We're well within limits, blah, blah, blah. And here comes AI and LLMs using all your RAM.

I think it's unprecedented for a one-year-old phone not to be able to run the headlining feature of the next OS that came out after it a year later. And I just have to think it's because they didn't think that, oh, we can cheap out on the RAM on the 15. It's a big deal. The iPhone's got plenty of RAM. We're well within limits, blah, blah, blah. And here comes AI and LLMs using all your RAM.

I will look back on this line, the 1550 Pro, and always remember it as the year where the non-pro phone had this crippling disability that could have been prevented with being a little bit more generous with RAM, but wasn't.

I will look back on this line, the 1550 Pro, and always remember it as the year where the non-pro phone had this crippling disability that could have been prevented with being a little bit more generous with RAM, but wasn't.

And it put Apple in this strange, somewhat uncomfortable position of having to tell people who just bought a brand new phone last year that, yeah, you can't run Apple intelligence.