A content creators tripod slowly fell over from what looked like waist height.
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iPhone 17 Pro A new era for iPhone pros, soft aluminum = crushed corners
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4sallypat
macrumors 603
Time to get the Air with strong titanium frame!
menist
macrumors 6502a
Aluminum has never been durable. Soft metal along with the heft will cause a lot of damage in one drop.
thadoggfather
macrumors P6
is this made of an actual orange rind? Looks weird
I cannot believe they are still using trash aluminum on a $1100/$1200 phone and continue to call it “Pro”. Pro used to be the best of the best, now it’s being overshadowed by the less expensive Air. Which is using PREMIUM materials! Tim Apple pinching pennies again. Sad.
thadoggfather
macrumors P6
Wonder how all of the Pro owners are gonna feel walking around with a shriveled orange rind while my Air is still shiny and new? Three rear cameras can’t save you from gashed corners.
decypher44
macrumors 68000
FattiesGoneWild
macrumors 6502a
That is what that wanker gets for not using a case and having the AppleCare+ attitude.
Cosmic Orange... More like Orange Crush!
FattiesGoneWild
macrumors 6502a
A case can. 🙄
So I need a $79 case to protect my $1200 phone from looking worse than the moldy mandarin oranges that I find in my produce basket when my kids forget about them? Hard pass. I’ll take the premium phone made with titanium. 💅💅💅
Andeddu
macrumors 68020
I have plenty classic aluminium iPhones and they all look perfect with zero dents or scratches. Just use a case and everything will be fine.
FattiesGoneWild
macrumors 6502a
Ridiculous, you can get a solid case for $15-$20 bucks.
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ProbablyDylan
macrumors 68040
I can see this being the reason there's no black this year. At the same time, they still went ahead with dark blue. So who knows. I'm sure durability won't be much better or worse than the regular iPhone, which never moved away from aluminum.
I doubt it’s as simple as tripod fall. The way it caused the dent doesn’t add up with falling from tripod. We should know in few days when the phones are in the wild.
Every year we get clickbait idiots posting how bendable, breakable or whatever the new iPhones not even available yet are. Come back in a month after 10,000,000 iPhone Pros have actually been used for a while and then whine about how lame they are.
I said this months ago. Aluminum is super soft, and all aluminum iPhones have been dent/scratch prone in the past. This really shouldn't be a surprise to anyone at this point. 🤣
My iPhone 11 had a giant dent in it from a 2 foot fall onto the leg of a chair.
You know what's extremely dent-proof and light-weight? Titanium. But it's also not good for thermals, so.... dents it is.
My iPhone 11 had a giant dent in it from a 2 foot fall onto the leg of a chair.
You know what's extremely dent-proof and light-weight? Titanium. But it's also not good for thermals, so.... dents it is.
klasma
macrumors G4
antiprotest
macrumors 601
klasma
macrumors G4
Paradoxically, using a case makes it meaningless for the phone itself to “look perfect with zero dents or scratches”.
cite your source. where'd you get this image from
whattodo11
macrumors 6502a
iPhone X through 14 Pro were stainless steel. iPhone 4 was also stainless steel. While steel is heavy, some argue the polished steel frame were the most premium looking iPhones. iPhone Air evokes that with polished titanium. I don't think Apple uses steel for any of its products anymore.