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On being a gadget maverick

I have a secret: I don’t use a case for my iPhone. Or my Kindle. 

Every day, as I cram into the London Underground carriage and look around at the hordes guarding their gadgets protectively in a leather or plastic wallet, hands pushing the case irritatedly out the way while they read, swipe or listen, I feel like… a maverick.

“You don’t need it,” I want to whisper. “Jobs did a good enough job. Trust Jobs! Trust the casing it was built with…”

But I guess it’s human nature to protect your babies.

I tend to pull out my Kindle self-consciously - like a self-conscious superhero, I suspect - eyes darting around to see if anyone has spotted that I’m using my gadget naked. Un gadget au naturel. 

What is this obsession with buying a beautiful piece of kit and immediately covering it with a garish rubber fetish suit? 

I saw a girl on the way to work with an iPhone 4S dressed in a bunny suit today. A BUNNY SUIT. (The iPhone 4S, not the girl on the way to work.) It had these alert little bunny ears sticking perkily off the top, like some sort of clitoral stimulant.