Dbrand tried and failed to fix the Ghost Case — replacements will take longer
by Wes Davis from The Verge - All Posts on (#6KNVF)
The Dbrand Ghost Case for the iPhone 15 Pro. | Image: Dbrand Dbrand is scrapping plans to fix its anti-yellowing Ghost Case, but not because it yellows - it's that it scratches very easily. The company had promised in November to ship free replacements with scratch-resistant coatings, but now it's telling customers via email they'll have to wait. Most of its production run of those ended up unshippable," the company says, so instead it's sending a redesigned Ghost 2.0" this summer. Essentially, it's a delay.
The company says that its first test runs of the newly-coated cases looked good, but when it tried to manufacture them at scale, the coatings got all gloppy at the edges:
As you can imagine, after developing a zero-yellowing anti-scratch solution that was the first of its kind, we were...