Quote:
Originally Posted by soilwork
If you are claiming that both are not that different in terms of durability under normal usage with reasonable case, yes, I agree with you.
|
Yes, that is what I'm saying.
Quote:
|
Frankly, I am not sure why this is an issue of debate in the first place. If everything else is identical (cost, contrast, ...and so on), more durable ones is strictly better than less durable ones. Let us think about the car safety. The current crop of cars may be safe enough for most people in most cases. However, I don't see any harm in developing safer cars.
|
I'm not sure we're even debating the same thing. Before we got side tracked on the issue of plastic vs glass (which wasn't really what I was talking about), I was saying that I do not believe the statement that larger glass screens are more prone to breaking than smaller glass screens. I believe that there are other factors, besides the size of the screen, which have the most influence on how fragile a glass screen is.
Originally I was comparing "small glass screen" to "large glass screen". It seems to have turned into a discussion about "glass screen" versus "plastic screen", which is a separate debate.
If we're discussing plastic versus glass, I've said that plastic definitely has some advantages. However, I'm not really sure I agree that breakage is a major concern under normal usage conditions. For me, there would likely be other factors in determining which device I buy that have a much higher priority than the substrate material.
Again, I'm not picking on Robertb specifically, he just happens to be a convenient example in this thread, but many manufacturers are saying that they are building a plastic large screen device because glass is too fragile in the larger screen size. In my opinion, it has nothing to do with the screen size. That's all I'm saying.