No matter what gadget you have and no matter how you baby it or protect it, sooner or later, the inevitable will happen, and it will break. It may break down from general wear and tear, you may drop it on the floor or in water, but no matter what, it will break down in some way shape or form.
Recently during what I would like to call my own technological tragedy, I was faced with two broken iOS devices. An iPod Touch 4th generation and worse, the gadget to end all gadgets, my iPad 2 suffered shattered screens.