When data is backed up to the cloud, the loss or breakage of the device is much less traumatic.

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Engineers look for signs of wear and tear or breakage.

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In this world where every object was thrown away at the slightest sign of breakage or aging, at the first dent or stain, and replaced with a new and perfect substitute, there was just one false note, one shadow: the moon.

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Then Apple (or perhaps Foxconn) are able to sort out that breakage rate.

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When people shrink more or faster, the biggest concern is osteoporosis, in which bones become weak, brittle and vulnerable to breakage.

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