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We need to know the proportion of people this is happening to to understand whether this is a thing or not. Apple supposedly sold 10 million phones on the week
by Tyrannosaurs 12y ago
We need to know the proportion of people this is happening to to understand whether this is a thing or not.
Apple supposedly sold 10 million phones on the weekend of release, more since. Apparently more of those are 6s than 6 Pluses but we don't know the exact numbers or breakdown right now. Similarly we know a few people have had problems but it doesn't seem clear whether it's a few, a few tens, a few hundred or many thousands.
Ultimately this may be bad design ignoring real world valid use cases, it may be dumbness on the part of a small number of vocal users, but without knowing what sort of numbers are seeing the problem and what that is as a proportion of sales it's almost impossible to say.
Right now all we can really say is some iPhone 6s and 6 Pluses have bent and based on that it's no wonder Apple haven't said anything.
Not a great story but probably all that we really know right now.
- higherpurpose 12y agoEven if it happens to "only 2 percent" of iPhone 6 Plus owners, that seems like a pretty big number to me for such an issue to even exist.
- hyperpape 12y agoI would consider 2 percent a huge number, yes. I'd also expect Apple to do refunds for those 2 percent, both in the sense that I'd demand it if it were my phone, and that historically they've done things like that. But we still need to know the number. Has anything so far suggested it might be as high as 2 percent?
- Tyrannosaurs 12y agoOnly 2% would almost certainly be tens of thousands so I'd agree. But right now this doesn't feel like this is tens of thousands. On the other hand it is early days.
- zenciadam 12y agoSaw one of those phones on Monday before I was aware that this was a thing. The phone looked like a piece of vinyl that had been left out on a hot summer day. No real defence for this other than poor engineering. It's basically the Apple III all over.