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Oh the irony of reading this article on a four and a half year old iPhone 6 fully patched and running the lastest version of iOS...

bjoli 8y ago
My wife's iPhone 6 is on its 3rd touch-IC repair cycle. She keeps it in her back pocket and thus bends it slightly, and in 4 months it starts showing flexion damage. The whole touch-IC debacle is crazy. The fact that they fix it by just replacing the board with another one that will be defective in X months instead of actually soldering it correctly is a disgrace. And a failed drive in our iMac made the Apple store declare it broken beyond repair and offered us to replace most of the device which would be about as expensive as buying a new one. I ended up doing it myself. I will never get another iDevice.
- imandride 8y ago
  My boss recently have me six of her previous MacBooks that Apple deemed unrepairable, stating liquid damage on all of them. Upon further inspection only one had liquid damage, two had unresponsive touchpads, one non functioning keyboard, one a shattered screen, and a screen that was peeling excessively. I was astonished at the disrespect they have for their own customers.
  - brokenmachine 8y ago
    Your boss bought 5 replacement MacBooks instead of just saying, "I never spilled liquid into any of these"? TBH I'm astonished at what Apple customers accept.
    - bjoli 8y ago
      What are they supposed to say? Apple computers have small moisture indicators in their computers and when those are tripped you won't get anything for free.
      - brokenmachine 8y ago
        They are supposed to say, "I don't care what the indicator says, I never spilled anything on this laptop". If the indicator doesn't do what it's supposed to then why would you accept it once? Why would someone accept it 5 times?? As a comment, if the other parts of the laptop can fail it's not unreasonable to think that the moisture indicator could also fail.

bjoli 8y ago

My wife's iPhone 6 is on its 3rd touch-IC repair cycle. She keeps it in her back pocket and thus bends it slightly, and in 4 months it starts showing flexion damage. The whole touch-IC debacle is crazy. The fact that they fix it by just replacing the board with another one that will be defective in X months instead of actually soldering it correctly is a disgrace. And a failed drive in our iMac made the Apple store declare it broken beyond repair and offered us to replace most of the device which would be about as expensive as buying a new one. I ended up doing it myself. I will never get another iDevice.

imandride 8y ago
My boss recently have me six of her previous MacBooks that Apple deemed unrepairable, stating liquid damage on all of them. Upon further inspection only one had liquid damage, two had unresponsive touchpads, one non functioning keyboard, one a shattered screen, and a screen that was peeling excessively. I was astonished at the disrespect they have for their own customers.
- brokenmachine 8y ago
  Your boss bought 5 replacement MacBooks instead of just saying, "I never spilled liquid into any of these"? TBH I'm astonished at what Apple customers accept.
  - bjoli 8y ago
    What are they supposed to say? Apple computers have small moisture indicators in their computers and when those are tripped you won't get anything for free.
    - brokenmachine 8y ago
      They are supposed to say, "I don't care what the indicator says, I never spilled anything on this laptop". If the indicator doesn't do what it's supposed to then why would you accept it once? Why would someone accept it 5 times?? As a comment, if the other parts of the laptop can fail it's not unreasonable to think that the moisture indicator could also fail.