Beyond major breakthroughs in the Gorilla Glass, most updates are not signlificant updates at all (to the end user) but rather retweaked balance changes depending on the trend of the customer market.
The truth is, due to physics, there are limits to what you can do:
A hard surface cracks more easily, which is bad for drops.
A soft surface scratches more easily, but is good for drops.
You have to make the glass thin and light as well so you can't make it bulky.
The Victus raised the baseline slightly by introducing a new engineering method, but after that? We're back to the tweaking game.
Their latest attempt is Gorilla Armor, which broken the zero-sum game again with anti-glare features.
I think in the future, focusing on glass only, they may try to make variable glass with softer corners, although, this is not worth the cost (for now) compared to simply engineering the phone have (limited) shock absorption on four corners.
The best, most practical, and cheapest solution remains putting on a phone case with reinforced "air pocket" corners.
The truth is, due to physics, there are limits to what you can do:
A hard surface cracks more easily, which is bad for drops.
A soft surface scratches more easily, but is good for drops.
You have to make the glass thin and light as well so you can't make it bulky.
The Victus raised the baseline slightly by introducing a new engineering method, but after that? We're back to the tweaking game.
Their latest attempt is Gorilla Armor, which broken the zero-sum game again with anti-glare features.
I think in the future, focusing on glass only, they may try to make variable glass with softer corners, although, this is not worth the cost (for now) compared to simply engineering the phone have (limited) shock absorption on four corners.
The best, most practical, and cheapest solution remains putting on a phone case with reinforced "air pocket" corners.
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