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> And I've just learned this lesson with a $60 bill from Nintendo repair after the port went pop and couldn't charge the device. GP is giving you their first-h

> And I've just learned this lesson with a $60 bill from Nintendo repair after the port went pop and couldn't charge the device. GP is giving you their first-hand experience with this issue. It’s a little disrespectful to call it an urban myth replying to a first-hand account. FWIW, the Switch charger outputs a higher voltage, IIRC.

pen2l 6y ago
Don’t think it’s necessarily « disrespectful « to doubt another’s account. This reminds me of the « bend gate » problem with iPhones. There were some here who reported the problem... but somehow it was not a problem in the grand scheme of things. We have a lot of skeptical folks here (a good thing!) so we should be respectfully skeptical of the skeptics at times, without an exchange of ill feelings. :)
- ahmedalsudani 6y ago
  Honestly it’s mostly about the tone. Skepticism is welcome. What was bend-gate?
  - edoceo 6y ago
    iPhones would get the frame bent https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8288566 https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8288566
- cyphar 6y ago
  While the whole "bend your phone in half" thing was overblown, it definitely is a major issue. The whole class of touch disease issues (where the screen has grey bars flickering and touch stops working) were caused by the same underlying problem -- the phones are less rigid and small flexing (such as in your pocket) causes the Touch IC chip to become unseated. An incredibly large number of iPhones have succumbed to this issue, and Apple had a "repair program" for it[1] (which is their terminology to get around calling it a "recall" because their product was faulty) -- and as usual their description of the problem is incredibly skewed (you don't need to drop your phone to trigger it and it affected a very large number of devices because it was a design flaw of the phone). [1]: https://support.apple.com/iphone6plus-multitouch https://support.apple.com/iphone6plus-multitouch

pen2l 6y ago

Don’t think it’s necessarily « disrespectful « to doubt another’s account. This reminds me of the « bend gate » problem with iPhones. There were some here who reported the problem... but somehow it was not a problem in the grand scheme of things. We have a lot of skeptical folks here (a good thing!) so we should be respectfully skeptical of the skeptics at times, without an exchange of ill feelings. :)

ahmedalsudani 6y ago
Honestly it’s mostly about the tone. Skepticism is welcome. What was bend-gate?
- edoceo 6y ago
  iPhones would get the frame bent https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8288566 https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8288566
cyphar 6y ago
While the whole "bend your phone in half" thing was overblown, it definitely is a major issue. The whole class of touch disease issues (where the screen has grey bars flickering and touch stops working) were caused by the same underlying problem -- the phones are less rigid and small flexing (such as in your pocket) causes the Touch IC chip to become unseated. An incredibly large number of iPhones have succumbed to this issue, and Apple had a "repair program" for it[1] (which is their terminology to get around calling it a "recall" because their product was faulty) -- and as usual their description of the problem is incredibly skewed (you don't need to drop your phone to trigger it and it affected a very large number of devices because it was a design flaw of the phone). [1]: https://support.apple.com/iphone6plus-multitouch https://support.apple.com/iphone6plus-multitouch