Only on devices with glued glass. Of course glueing it on the rims and leaving a huge air gap would do all that.
if you do decent product design instead of copying every bad decision apple made, you'd have the glass framed. It would have no discernible air gap. all the things you said would be just as fine. and it could be replaced by removing the frame, probably with screws.
but no, let's use corning glass (with lots of impurities so it is crack prone but hard to scratch... the perfect glass to be framed) and use it on the whole front of the device so it is guaranteed that it will break if the device falls.
sometimes i really wish apple had had it's way on the illegals claims about owning design elements. we'd at least be safe from their bad choices.
If you don't fuse (glue) the glass to the display, and don't leave an air gap, the result is an easily-damaged screen as the glass sheet rubs the LCD. Framing the display would change nothing about this equation, and the decision to use Corning glass has nothing to do with optical fusion.
Just about the only downside to fusing the display is repairability.
if you do decent product design instead of copying every bad decision apple made, you'd have the glass framed. It would have no discernible air gap. all the things you said would be just as fine. and it could be replaced by removing the frame, probably with screws.
but no, let's use corning glass (with lots of impurities so it is crack prone but hard to scratch... the perfect glass to be framed) and use it on the whole front of the device so it is guaranteed that it will break if the device falls.
sometimes i really wish apple had had it's way on the illegals claims about owning design elements. we'd at least be safe from their bad choices.