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The mild level of hysteria over this has been interesting It is a brand new, $1000 consumer device. As haughty and rich as we all present ourselves, it really
by personZ 12y ago
The mild level of hysteria over this has been interesting
It is a brand new, $1000 consumer device. As haughty and rich as we all present ourselves, it really supremely sucks if you're the person whose brand new device got bent -- regardless of your available spending cash, it's a major bummer, moreso if you have a 2 year contract ahead of you and a dead device. That is why there is a "hysteria".
Gorilla glass (not sure if the iPhone uses that brand specifically, but they use ion enhanced glass which is what it is) famously bends.
This story got knocked back to page 3 for having too many comments to upvotes, as an aside.
- lh7777 12y agoI'm not worried. 14 day return policy + AppleCare = no risk that that I'm stuck with a bad/dead device. If this turns out to be a major problem that doesn't happen to me initially, I'll return the phone. If it's not that widespread but I'm among the unlucky ones who ends up with a bent phone over the next 2 years, Apple will replace it for free (or worst case charge me $79 if they think it's my fault).
- epsylon 12y agoThe return policy doesn't apply if the item is considered damaged, and it seems that it's the excuse Apple seem to have used in that case.
- collyw 12y agoIf the glass bends, and they marketed it right, it could have been a cool feature. It is Apple, they managed to market the Shuffle for basically having almost no user interface and complete lack of features compared to anything else on the market.