Protect and Serve
Screen protectors. Man, oh man, people will fight over this issue. First off, a screen protector is not a case or a cover, it’s a clear sheet of protective material that is applied directly to your tablet’s touch screen. The idea is that this will protect it from getting all scratch up during normal use.
Do they do this? For the most part, yes. But there are some serious drawbacks to having a screen protector that may make you think twice about the perceived extra protection.
The first problem that I have with screen protectors is that they are a real pain to install. If you think it’s tricky to get a bubble-free installation of a screen protector on a tiny iPhone screen, wait until you’ve tried putting it on a 9.7” screen or (the horror) the big iPad Pro.
I’m a little OCD about this sort of thing and unless the screen protector is perfectly square and is applied flat and even it will irritate me so much that I have to take it off.
The other problem is that it changes the texture of the screen, which wouldn’t matter if this wasn’t your main way of interacting with software. The fact is that there is no screen protector that matches the quality of the Corning glass that your iPad comes with. No matter which way you look at it, this is an objective downgrade from leaving the screen bare.
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