What's the best screen protector?

Question

Any suggestions out there as to the best screen protector?

Answer 1

Double Dizzy wrote:
I love how when you gave your answer...you still implied that your answer was the only correct one...after just stating what appeared to be a "different strokes for different folks" type of passive aggressive opening line.
LOLOLOL!
OK. Let me try AGAIN.
I have no special ownership of the truth and may be wrong about this. However, I'm simply sharing my opinion that everything I've seen and read suggests that plastic screen protectors for the iPhone are a racket.
For one, you are putting something on a beautiful screen that makes it less beautiful. And why are you doing this? Presumably to protect it. The equation is make it less beautiful for the sake of added protection to keep it more beautiful but for when? For those brief moments when you take one protector off and put on another? But the protectors themselves are universally weaker than the screen itself so I wonder how protective they really are. How much is the compromised surface worth the "protection" (not to mention cost)? The screen is hard glass, the protectors are weak plastic. The end result is you have an iPhone with a scratchable plastic protector on it that makes it uglier instead of a clean flat hard beautiful glass surface.
It just makes no sense to me. Except that coming from a tradition of plastic screens on previous devices, perhaps there is a "legacy urge" to get a screen protector. Or maybe people just like putting plastic sheets on their glass iPhone.
Here's my experience. I have an iPhone and no plastic screen protector. I don't dote over the iPhone. I fling it around and stick it into various pockets. It has no scratches. I also enjoy the naked glass screen with no oogy plastic covering like grandma's slipcover over her couch that makes your thighs squeak whenever you sit on it.
If after years of use I get a scratch on the glass screen, that's less bad than years of plastic protectors and years of scratched use because the plastic protectors will of course get scratched multiple times. They're plastic.
At the same time, figure in an aggressive third party market that exploits opportunities to sell accessories - needed and un-needed. So if you discount the marketing and "legacy urge," why do I need this thing???
The Crystal Support screen protector is great...and it's fairly cheap as well. Unlike others that "get off" on trying to beat people down with their opinions...I'll simple tell you that it works for me. You might like to try it...then again...what do I know? I'm not gunna shove what works for me down your throat like others on this board.
DD
If that makes you happy, great! I'm not shoving my opinion down anyone's throat, only sharing an opinion that may differ from yours. Let's say, for example, the question was "now that I've gotten an iphone, what kind of instant mashed potatoes should I smear all over it to protect it?" I would have the same response. I just don't get the appeal, although maybe there are people out there who feel more comfortable smearing instant mashed potatoes all over their phones.
The "Emperor's wearing no clothes" was only one person's opinion too, you know...