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6 Plus Users, Are You Still Worried About Bending?
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If it bends, then so be it. I've always had to make a sacrifice to stick with Apple, and a bent phone isn't the worst. Having to bootcamp to play most games, rubbish file handling on kiddy iOS, not being able to send picture messages or make video calls or copy and paste on the early iPhones and countless other minor restrictions are the norm for an Apple user.
Some are overcome with updates, some never are. Either way, you need a sense of humour or to be a bit deluded to be an Apple guy. I'm the former. The make good looking stuff. Form before functionality. I like design so it suits me fine generally, except when it comes to sport, that's a different story altogether.
Some are overcome with updates, some never are. Either way, you need a sense of humour or to be a bit deluded to be an Apple guy. I'm the former. The make good looking stuff. Form before functionality. I like design so it suits me fine generally, except when it comes to sport, that's a different story altogether.
Reports of bent iphone from 'regular' users now trickling in.
Note, this is not from intentional damage, just using it the same way as their old phones
http://www.businessinsider.com/photos-of-bent-iphone-6s-2014-9
Note, this is not from intentional damage, just using it the same way as their old phones
http://www.businessinsider.com/photos-of-bent-iphone-6s-2014-9
Of course there's also no way to verify that these were done by normal use. There's nothing stopping anyone from abusing their phone and then running to Instagram to claim it happened accidentally.
Good god what kind of proof do you need to see to actually realize this is an issue? I see you in every thread defending apple from this bending problem and saying all evidence is somehow not good enough, well then, what do you need? People cannot record the phone while it's in their pockets.
Providing a counterpoint to the hysteria is not defending. Do you have a rebuttal to my actual point? Didn't think so.
That must have taken a massive effort. I just searched instagram hashtags for iPhone, iPhone6, iPhone6Plus, Bent, Bendgate, Bentgate, Bentghazi and BentGhazi and the first 300 iPhone plus did not have any individual images with their phones bent.
if the Failure rate of the Phones is less than 5%, it is STILL below industry standard failure rate.
5% of 10 million iPhone 6 is 450,000 bent phones. by now the sales are close to 15 million which makes 5% of 15 million 750,000 phones
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I cannot provide a rebuttal because the standard of proof you require is crazy and no one can provide you with it. There's no point to try and convince you, you have already convinced yourself.
Everyone knows and accepts the iPhone 6 bends at a 100% rate when you attempt to bend it with effort.
Not everyone knows and acecpts that the iPhone 6's bent without an attempt to bend it probably less than 5%
I will realize its a problem the day I need to use my phone by grabbing the two ends and bending it as hard as I can.
Oh, wait, I never will have a need to do that?
Then I guess its not a problem.
Nonsense. The fact that an Instagram photo is pretty weak evidence doesn't mean I have a high bar. It means you have a low one.
A video of someone bending an iPhone 6 or 6 plus by using it in the pocket or back pocket.
Funnily enough videos where the phone bends are only the ones where people bend it with force on purpose.
Isn't there a flaw on the theory of bending iPhones in pockets when NO ONE as actually came forward with a video of it happening?
Surely Lewis of Unbox Therapy would make double the views he had on his video if he actually could show the iPhone 6 Plus bending in his pocket?
On the other hand here's a video of someone NOT bending the iPhone 6 Plus by putting it in a pocket:
http://youtu.be/E8E9xlGbZaA
Right. But if you're someone who goes "I wonder if mine will bend?" Proceeds to bend it and then run to Instagram with a photo and say "It bent in my pocket! Honest!" We're supposed to take your word at face value. As if kids haven't already been caught going to an Apple Store to intentionally bend them for example. As if Instagram is some bastion of unbiased information.
Please.
Please.
I'm not worried about mine bending. I don't feel a need to do something like that to something that I use on a daily basis.
-Just because I could buy a gun and shoot myself in the leg, doesn't mean that I want to do it.
-Just because I could buy a gun and shoot myself in the leg, doesn't mean that I want to do it.
Yes, its amazing how people seem to think that all these videos in which the phone is subjected to something that no one would ever do in normal use is somehow "proof" that there's a defect.
The "bending on purpose" videos are pointless media sensationalization.
As for a defect, all the proof anyone needs is to notice that the vast majority of "casual use" bent phones happen in the exact same place, just below the volume buttons.
That is the same area iPhone 5 and 5S bent in people's pockets last year and the year before
Please show us a video where an iPhone becomes bent from being in someone's pocket. Until then feel free to stop spreading misinformation.
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The vast majority of casual use bent phones? I'm aware of so few instances of such cases that they can be counted on your fingers, and of those several are questionable as to the applicability of the term "casual use."
There's scientific evidence from a reputable source (Consumer Reports) that the 6+ is more bendable than an iPhone 5s, a little less bendable than a 6, and as bendable as some other phones... so... "Good God", are you honestly suggesting bendgate hysteria is more meaningful than that?
A reasonable person would conclude that the 6+ does not have a serious problem, but any 6+ owner should take care with their phone to avoid damage -- kind of like almost all the other phones and electronic devices out there.
Clearly, many of iPhone 6+ bending videos are intentional damage, which is meaningless for determining if it has an issue. It's trivial to break pretty much any phone intentionally.
And of course, many 6+s have been bent unintentionally... but we can't conclude much just because they exist. Just like always people do lots of bad, bad things to their phones. There are many, many of these phones out there. So of course there will be plenty of pretty mangled ones for people to take pictures of... which many will do due to all the attention it grabs.
Against actual scientific testing, the videos and pictures are very weak. I can't definitively say there isn't an issue but there's a lot more evidence against it than for it. Good god, is that so complicated?
Agreed - it's something Apple should address with the next design. Or they probably should have addressed it with the current one, which is even thinner that the 5 series.
The phone is longer.
If you have a 5 inch pencil in your pocket you will not feel it sitting down, if you have a 7 inch pencil in your pocket you will feel it sitting down. That is the compromise you have to make when sitting down because most pants, jeans or other leg clothing press to the skin when sitting down.
If you put a a 3 inch long paper in your pocket straight down and you sit, it will stay straight
If you put a 6 inch paper in your pocket and sit, it will not remain straight, its just the compromise you have to deal with with a bigger phone. the bigger the phone the higher the pressure and the more you feel the phone in your pockets, the more you feel the phone in your pocket it is naturally the more pressure being applied to your phone. As your phone is naturally straight the longer it is, the more pressure on its edges it will experience as compared to the iPhone 5 which was smaller and even if it was as thin would still experience less pressure due to its length.
Why? If it only bends when you either intentionally bend it or subject it to unreasonable force Apple is under no obligation to "fix" anything.