Marques Brownlee
April 24, 2026 · 2 min read
Glass is glass
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Key Takeaways
- 1Every year, smartphone companies make bold claims about their glass technology.
- 2The fundamental issue is that scratch resistance and shatter resistance work against each other.
- 3Most high-end smartphones today use Gorilla Glass from Corning, which has been evolving since the original iPhone in 2007.
- 4This pattern isn't unique to Gorilla Glass.
- 5What makes this even more misleading is that companies can attribute shatter resistance improvements to factors beyond just the glass itself.
Overview
Every year, smartphone companies make bold claims about their glass technology. "Four times more shatter resistant," they'll say one year. "Three times more scratch resistant," they'll claim the next. While these statements aren't technically lies, they're misleading at best, and here's why.
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