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Almost all the bending reports are for the iPhone 6+ bending & twisting at/close to the volume-down button when placed in pockets etc. Placing the phone betwee
by suprgeek 12y ago
Almost all the bending reports are for the iPhone 6+ bending & twisting at/close to the volume-down button when placed in pockets etc.
Placing the phone between two flat blocks and applying pressure at the exact center (three-point-test) will NOT test for this specific issue.
Even then it should be pretty suspicious that in the test conducted, the new phones are at the bottom of the stiffness list.
On another front, the Apple response is textbook - Deny, Minimize, (deride the press), then grudgingly make changes even while insisting that none were needed to begin with.
Expect the next lot of these phones to experience a sudden stiffening.
- IBM 12y ago"You're bending it wrong"
- fredfoobar 12y ago"Just bend it the other way"
- nkjoep 12y ago"Bend different."
- seanp2k2 12y agoThat was also my first though -- they'll recommend that concerned iPhone 6 owners buy stiff-back cases. Is it a coincidence that the silicon cases for the 6 /6+ are stiff and fully wrap the back vs the bumper design they used for previous generations?
- pdpi 12y agoI'm pretty sure they only did bumper cases for the 4/4s?
- valleyer 12y agoGiven that Apple also sold "around the back" cases for the last two years' gens of phones, something easily verifiable on the internet, yes, it is a coincidence. There are enough actual things here to criticize Apple for. No need to create conspiracy theories
- emersive 12y agoAll nine reports of the 10,000,000+ who have iPhone 6s. I really think this whole thing has been blown way way out of proportion. If this were any other phone maker we wouldn't be talking about it.
- nmridul 12y agoI know my phone will shatter if I drop it. But I'm not going to drop it to prove this point. All 10,000,000 won't dare to test the bending and would try to avoid conditions (don't keep in pockets, buy thicker cases etc) that will lead to bending..
- KJasper 12y agoWhy would you believe a company that said about the antenna issue on the iPhone 4: "You're holding it wrong". There are way more complaints and pictures to be found on this issue than the ones that Apple reports.
- PhasmaFelis 12y agoIIRC, that wasn't a official response but an off-the-cuff answer from one man, who is now dead.
- WorldWideWayne 12y agoYou mean the then CEO, Steve Jobs?
- PhasmaFelis 12y agoWho else would I mean? Steve Jobs was a jerk, yes. It does not follow from this that Apple as a whole will necessarily lie about damage reports.
- swombat 12y ago> * a company that said about the antenna issue on the iPhone 4: "You're holding it wrong"* Yes and... that was correct? Every other phone suffers from the same antenna attenuation if you enclose it completely in your hands. But because it's Apple, some news outlets saw a chance to make some pageviews by creating another scandal. The "antennagate" crap was roughly equivalent to people complaining that a TV won't show any image at all if you set it up facing the wall, and writing lots of grandiose articles about how Apple TV doesn't deliver on its promise in all sorts of common circumstances, etc.