iPad dropped from 100.000 feet and survived, real or fake?

It doesn't matter how well you make the case, it cant negate G forces.

If the device pulls something like 1000-2000G's from the sudden deceleration of hitting the ground, then you will end up with the screen and many other components for a few milliseconds having the equivalent of a car parked on top of it.

The only way for the device to survive a really fast drop is to have a case that is 20+ feet thick, and have the inside be some kind of gel where the device can drop through and decelerate.

If the device is slowing from like 120MPH to 0 MPH in a fraction of a second then both the case and the device is experiencing extremely high G's

it is just like being in a car. the body is tough and if you slow down gradually from like 200MPH to 0MPH then you will be ok, but if you do the same slowdown in about 0.001 second, then you will die, as the G's will make your heart weigh just as much as the rest of your body for a split second, destroying it, along will many other organs.

(when you jump off of a building and hit the sidewalk, it is not the hardness of the tar that kills you, it is the sudden deceleration from 120MPH to 0MPH that does the killing. (if you had a special suit on where hundreds of steel cables can be attached evenly supporting the suit and you were to freefall until you reached terminal velocity then suddenly srop withoug impacting anything, you will have the same damage as if you were to fall onto the pavement)