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Why an iPhone Can Survive a Drop from a Plane, but Not from Your Kitchen Counter (wsj.com)
2 points by nradov on April 27, 2024 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


Such an easy peasy question.

Not enough time to deploy the parachute.

It makes sense. your phone grows legs, It leaps off your kitchen worktop and hits your limestone floor smashing the corner of your phone before the chute deploys.

The phone lays dead on the tiled floor with a partially deployed parachute crumpled up along side. Nice one Marple!

Yep! theres an app for that, but its closed source.




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