Again, this is just me, but I have arthritis pretty bad and do occasionally drop things. So I have to get the Otterbox Defender cases for everything. As thin as the newer iPads and iPhones are, it actually helps me hold them better too, besides just Jack booboo proofing them! Funny how when you get old you start having to repeat your childhood. When I was first in public school in 1964 we children had to use those big fat pencils to write with on our Big Chief paper tablets because it was easier for children to grasp and manipulate them. Well now I am returning to that by having to have thicker devices and fat pencils and pens in my old age.