The point is that plenty of manufacturers (including Apple!) have made phones that don't bend if you look at them crooked. And a reasonable hypothesis is that u

The point is that plenty of manufacturers (including Apple!) have made phones that don't bend if you look at them crooked. And a reasonable hypothesis is that users will migrate to those phones, once/if Apple gets a reputation for unreliability. I'm not so sure, though, between the cult of Apple and consumers' well attested love of device thinness.