Something I believe strongly in: don’t buy or use a case. It takes away from the design purity and the beauty of things.

For example, if you put a case on your phone, you rob the beauty from it. It is like putting on a very very thick and ugly condom over your devices. Or it is like Asian people who put sticky ugly plastic vinyl wrap around their nice furniture and leather couches.

Living life on the edge!

Some thing that I’ve also realized: the reason we put cases on our devices, and protective armor over devices is because we fear that our devices and things will get scratched, broken, etc. However, nobody really owns their devices for that long anyways. For example, it seems in today’s world, nobody realistically owns their iPhone for longer than two years. Usually within 2 to 3 years, people will either trade-in or upgrade their iPhones. Therefore, considering that you own your iPhone for such a short period of time, why not just take the risk and live without a case?

Does Apple design their phones to be used with a case? Or without a case?

It seems that Apple intends their phones to be used with a case, even though that their marketing materials show their devices to be used without a case. For example, do you remember the huge controversy when Apple first released the iPhone with a camera bump? The compromise was that if you used the phone with a case, the Apple case, the phone would be totally flush. No camera “clit” bump.

Cases add unnecessary bulk and weight to our phones.

Assuming that lightness is the closest thing to Godliness, anything that adds unnecessary weight and bulk to our things and devices is bad.

For example, the iPhone pro is already heavy enough. If you put on a case, you just make it even heavier.

Also a big innovation that I’ve done with my iPad is not buying a case for it. That using it without a case is in fact superior. I consider the iPad Pro keyboard to be the most bizarre innovation: Steve Jobs designed original iPad to be used without a case. Without a stylus (Apple “pencil”). Therefore, whenever I meet or encounter people who use an iPad with a stylus or a keyboard, I look at them like lemmings.

I have a hidden suspicion that the only reason Apple designed the stylus pencil is in order to sell more products, and also to placate to the desires of their users, rather than setting a new precedents: the precedent that an iPad should be used with only your fingers. That fingers are far more intuitive to use than pencils or styluses. For example, you do not need to teach a child how to paint with their fingers, but you do need to teach a child how to properly hold a pencil or a paintbrush. Finger painting for kids is 1 trillion times more intuitive than painting with paint brushes, or using crayons.

The same thing goes with eating: it is far more intuitive for a child to learn how to pick up and eat food with their fingers and hands, not intuitive to teach a child how to use a spoon knife and fork or chopsticks to eat their food.