What is all this apologetics?

Are you telling me that it's Squaretrade's fault that iPhone 4 has twice as much glass and is twice as likely to break?

I don't see you arguing that the numbers they provided are wrong, so how are they being deceptive? They simply reported that in the 4 months since iPhone 4 came out, almost twice as many suffer breakages as 3GS, which is numbers from their own customers. I totally fail to see how this is deceptive.

Do you mean they should have reported a lower (and false) number just because iPhone 4 is ... more fragile?

Why are Apple users often so irrational?

Where did you learn maths?

9% annual accident rate means if 10 million 3GS's were sold, 900,000 of them will have an accident within a year.

15.5% annual accident rate for the iPhone 4 means that if 10 million units were sold, 1.5 million will have an accident within a year.

Perhaps the Apple premium is really just higher insurance coverage required by the fragile units.

http://elephantentrepreneur.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Apple-Fans-sticker-on-forehead.jpg

http://travel.webshots.com/photo/1465996128078930360wUFpzL

That'd teach you not to buy secondhand crappy phones that's taken a swim in the toilet.

check out 1:15.

Buying a new phone is even more trivial, doesn't mean owners should expect to do so though.

Although a couple Apple owners I know will probably be quite happy to have any reason to buy a new iPhone every few months.

So you want a picture of a shattered glass with particles embedded inside the cracks? That could be faked too.

Or do you want a Mythbuster doing a special on them? N=1 as they usually do for experimental replicates is not very rigorous scientific method.

I guess somebody better buy a batch of 1000 iPhones and said cases and do properly designed experiment. But wait, results can be biased in experiments too!

If you are going to skeptic about things, nothing's going to be enough to convince you. Besides, as the article states, this started from an inside source saying Apple is looking into the issue. Likely they were getting more shattered iPhone 4's than they expected and so they are looking into the cause of it. And they probably found that this was the most likely or plausible cause of the case shattering.

No need to get your knickers in a bunch, the mob hasn't got out the pitchforks and torches to burn down Apple HQ just yet, and Apple is just trying to prevent some bad publicity and angry customers whose shiny gadgets are not as shiny any more. There is no conspiracy going on here, and they are not out to smear your favorite gadget supplier(s).

http://www.engadget.com/2010/10/07/apple-afraid-of-a-shattering-followup-to-its-antennagate-woes/

http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&q=iphone+4+shattered

several of the top results are images of the same phones.