When “” == s is false but “”.equals( s ) is true

by 
String s = "";
String s2 = someUserInputVariale.toLowercase(); // where the user entered in ""

Something like that would cause s == s2 to evaluate to false.

Lots of code sill create new Strings without exposing the call to new String().

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