NYTimes reporter breaks iPhone 4 WITH bumper

[javajolt]

NYTimes tech reporter Nick Bilton broke his Apple-borrowed iPhone 4 by dropping it on the pavement, even with his chic blue bumper attached.  (Andy Ihnakto had a similar experience (except for the bumper-pavement part) with his Apple-loaned review product). 

I thought it would work beautifully until I dropped my iPhone on the concrete on Tuesday evening. The phone’s glass became a Humpty Dumpty look-a-like. I’m still trying to figure out whose fault it was? Of course, I’m mostly to blame for being clumsy and dropping the phone. But is it also Apple’s fault for creating a gadget that breaks so easily?

Bilton uses the incident as an excuse to go on at length about form over function.

Perhaps Apple really was better served with its plastic/aluminum material backing (orig. iPhone Aluminum is still my fav)?