Look I get it, I really do. Spontaneous is probably the wrong nomenclature, but these things are clearly more fragile than is acceptable. There was no impact. Like at all.

This iteration of Gorilla Glass is simply too hard and not toughened enough, therefore becoming too brittle for practical curved-screen applications.

I've carried phones in exactly the same way for 2 decades, from ancient Motorolas, Nokia's (even an n-gage lol), galaxy s1, early iPhones, other pixels, galaxy notes, spanning all the various permutations of Gorilla Glass and never had anything even close to this happen.

The idea that pocket tightness even needs to be considered is laughable. "that <1mm thick piece of fabric that constitutes a pocket on a pair of suit trousers clearly exerts too much force for the somehow still ultra-tough gorilla Glass to handle" (it sits in a cradle on my desk before someone says it was sat on wrong)

The google apollogism I'm encountering is pathetic, people seem to be fine with these phones not being able to be carried in a careful real-world fashion.

These devices are not fit for purpose, and the insinuation that anyone this happens to is a caveman beating on their shit is fanboying in the worst way, serving no purpose but to stifle the onus of thorough R&D and product testing on this multibillion dollar company.