Galoshes on a Botticelli

Photograph by Brian Finke
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Consider the smartphone -- slim lines, gorgeous materials, hyper-thin profile. Engineers ate out of a pizza box for a year to shave half a millimeter off that thing. Then you come along with your hideous rubber case. Why should they bother?

More important, why should you spend $600 on a triumph of design only to stick it in a sarcophagus?