[JohnBooty]

I agree with the disadvantages of glass, but there's also a huge design advantage in terms of radio reception, right?

They probably looked at the numbers and realized 98% of people put cases on their phones anyway so the disadvantages of glass weren't too bad.

[medellin]

No facts to back this up so would be interesting to hear from someone at apple but i feel they just do it because it’s pretty

[dylan604]

I seem to recall Apple owns part of the company that manufactures the glass. It would be kind of dumb to not use it everywhere and anywhere at that point.