The iPhone 3G has cracks – so what?

I was sent this link by a apple-hating colleague of mine and felt that I simply had to respond. The issue surrounds the new iPhone 3G and that cracks are appearing in the plastic casing of the white ones.

My only comment is – so what?

A teeny little cosmetic crack is not going to destroy your phone, it’s not even going to affect the performance one smidge.

It’s not the first time that this has happened though – cast your mind back to the dark ages of the year 2000 and you’ll recall that Apple went through similar dramas with their G4 cube.

The spunky, 8″ ‘toaster’that performed at a similar speed to it’s much larger desktop tower brother, but a heck of a lot smaller and a lot sexier suffered a very short life due in part to its cost, and also because of similar hairline cracks that appeared in its seamless case.

For the most part however, these cracks are miniscule. The main comment on the cube’s cracks, is equally relevant for the iPhone -

“None of these appearance flaws are serious — they aren’t visible from across a desk…”
Joel Sparks,originalcopy.com

 Have a look at most of the cracks on these phones and you’ll notice that they are really, really small. I believe the reason no-one has found them on the black ones is because they’re simply too hard to spot.

But why am I so nonchalant about these cracks? Because quite simply it really doesn’t matter. Within a few weeks of having your shiny new iPhone, you will get sick of the silicone sleeve or executive kangaroo leather pouch you sprung $120 for and you’ll start using your iPhone ‘raw’.

Whether its when you’re in a hurry to get to a meeting or a late night stumble on your way home from the pub, you will drop your phone. Once you do that, you are going to have much bigger problems than a hairline crack. You’ll have full-blown scars.

Real equipment has scars. If you don’t scuff it up in the first 6 months of owning it, you’re not using it properly.

So stop your whinging, be glad that you are lucky enough to have an iPhone and just start using it. It is still a kick-ass device.