Happy New iPhone Day!

And what better way to celebrate the launch of the iPhone Air and iPhone 17 family than by smashing them to pieces?

That's right, just hours after the iPhone launched, users are already breaking their iPhones — sometimes on purpose.

Early users have discovered that the iPhone 17 Pro's new aluminum unibody (the iPhone 16 Pro used titanium) is prone to scratches , and users are sharing photos of scratched-up demo iPhones on display at Apple Stores around the world. Bloomberg's Mark Gurman even speculates this is why we didn't get the black iPhone 17 Pro — the anodized aluminum body is too prone to scratching, and black gives away the game, he says.

However, some poor, unfortunate souls simply decided to tempt fate and left the Apple Store without slipping

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