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Originally Posted by carpetmojo
Incorrect - the manufacturers hope you want the device too be covered, so they can sell you one to give it the protection they know it requires....
Rather like wall chargers............
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Good thing I bought my STR when B&N was still shipping them with wall chargers
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And I like to take the non-conspiracy view. Look at cell phones, for example. Manufacturers go to great lengths to provide scratch resistant glass fronts, and then people go and put nasty plastic screen "protectors" on them. In all my years of owning smart phones (starting with the first iPhone), I've literally
never scratched a screen, and I've never used a case or screen protector. Of course I'm not in the habit of dropping my phone or sliding it face-first on concrete, but I guess if that's something you're into then a screen protector would be a fine investment.
Edit: Screen protectors made sense in the "bad old days" where "touch screens" were resistive touch, had plastic covers, and expected you to poke at them with sharp, pointy, plastic styluses. The Nintendo DS is a good example of that, and I did have a bunch of micro-scratches on my DS screen because I refused to use a screen protector. Modern, capacitive touch, glass-faced screens do not need screen protectors.
I should probably amend my original statement, though. I have bought several devices that did come with covers from the manufacturer (Wii remotes, one of those little handheld HD video camera things that were popular a few years ago before phones started including HD video cameras, etc), and I intentionally removed the gross, nasty, ugly silicon covers from he devices and threw them away. Because I hate covers.