By cjensen
Using an extremely expensive ultra-thin high-resolution touch-sensitive display as a scale is a pretty terrible idea. If Apple allows the app and someone weighs tiny diamonds on the screen, whose fault is it that the display is scratched? Ordinary people may not understand how the Mohs hardness scale works. Ordinary people may not be accurate judges of whether or not something is too heavy to place on a phone without damaging it. Cute hack, but too many unintended consequences in the real world.
Read more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10468480
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