[oxide]

the only thing I can imagine cracking the screen is trying to weigh a person.

is that really something Apple would have to pay for? seems like something like that would fall well in "your fault" territory from my perspective.

my first thought was drugs, might be handy to have a scale in my pocket sometimes.

[CaptSpify]

Just because it's the user's fault, doesn't mean the user won't waste apple's time trying to fight for a new phone.

[oxide]

I don't know about you, but if that's the only reason, it sounds an awful lot like a clear cut case of overreach.

[mchahn]

> might be handy to have a scale in my pocket sometimes.

I would kill for that. I diet in a geeky way, weighing everything. I have often thought that some kind of foldable scale that fit in my shirt pocket would be nice.

[threeseed]

But only Apple would know how much weight the force touch sensors can sustain before they are damaged.

[fpgeek]

If weight on the screen often breaks the force touch sensors without breaking the screen, that's an ugly UI problem. Even with a low "force touch / no screen" accident rate (< 1%), there could easily be tens or hundreds of thousands of users walking around with broken force touch sensors that have no idea their phone has a problem - because there's no visible signal that anything's wrong. They'll just think force touch is broken and/or unreliable. That's no way to promote the adoption of a new feature.