[Veliladon]

Think about it for a sec. Steel or aluminium is going to yield a hell of a lot quicker than titanium. If you try to bend a phone those materials are going to yield before the glass. All the energy is going to break the frame then the adhesive of the glass from the frame.

Titanium frame? Glass will yield before the frame. There's no strain relief that the frame provides by sacrificing itself. It'll withstand more force but the glass now has the lowest strength.

[diffeomorphism]

So apple did not "think about it for a sec." and shot themselves in the foot?

[gruez]

Not really. If the frame did yield you'd get "bendgate". You can't really win here.

[botanical]

You're right, and it's exactly what happened here:

https://youtu.be/IS0SItAzEXg?t=437

[avalys]

This whole thread is full of software engineers incorrectly mansplaining mechanical engineering.

Titanium is not stronger or stiffer than steel.