Apple Addresses 'Bendgate' By Strengthening Weak Points of 'iPhone 6s' Shell

apolloa said:
No they have fixed the issue. If their was never any issue as apparently stated as fact by users on here, and only 9 people complained, then Apple would NEVER spend the money 'enhancing' the design.
And your'e attempt at making this out to be something else, like it must mean every other iPhone was broken, is pretty immature and lame.

To quote the article above:

Nevertheless, it appears that Apple engineers have tweaked the design of the so-called "iPhone 6s" by strengthening the weak points of the smartphone's rear shell.
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If only 9 people complained, Apple wouldn't fix it? Well then, I guess that explains why they didn't? RIGHT?!?!?

Instead, a new model came out with improvements to further prevent it from happening.
 
jimtonic01 said:
And again a problem that apple evaded by just keeping quiet. Giving some users new devices. Selling a lot more to people who thought it was their own fault. This is just great. Kudos :)
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You know, they've proven to have substantially good customer service. If it is a problem, and they solve it on a case by case basis, it's still solved.
 
ozone said:
Wow. Really? Let me see... I'm going spend hundreds of dollars to purchase a sensitive piece of technology, fit it into a pocket located where I can articulate my body through at least 90 degrees of motion or more, and moreover, realize that this piece of technology is larger - perhaps much larger - than even a wallet or what I would normally stuff in said pocket.

Metal does bend; in fact, that's what makes it so useful as a material.

I echo the poster who emphasized "personal responsibility".

Clearly, this is a first world problem.
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So you are saying the phone isn't meant to be kept in a pocket?
 
ZipZap said:
Strengthening bend points is an admission there's an issue.
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Or it's an admission that there is potential for an issue...or they're just as sick of people making mountains out of molehills and are being one step ahead. I don't see the huge outcry over Samsung "proving" they didn't have an issue and being easier to bend than the iPhone 6.
 
terraphantm said:
So you are saying the phone isn't meant to be kept in a pocket?
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It's not meant to be in your back pocket while you sit in a chair under your 200 lbs or more rear end. My father has broken two iPhone 5C's doing this, the screens just shatter. Bending would be a "feature" compared to the older phones.
 
Rogifan said:
I think you need to replace Ive with Schiller. I highly doubt Ive has anything to do with pricing products or what gross margins should be. Also when Apple did respond to this last year they trotted out Schiller and Dan Ricco (head of hardware engineering) not Ive. Do you really think hardware engineering has no say in product design and they just blindly do whatever Ive tells them?
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Schiller is the spin doctor. He is not the shot caller. It's Tim's call ultimately, and Ive is the 2nd most powerful person at Apple and head of design. I doubt the hardware team walked in and said make something out of cheap aluminum to make a buck, and give it a crap design with spotty structural rigidity as a bonus.
 
apolloa said:
What phones are thinner than the iPhone and what tablets are thinner than the Air 2? And this is an issue as the usual 'fans' on here flat out refused their was any issue what so ever, and still are reading on here, yet here is Apple enhancing the weak points in the iPhone 6 Plus chassis, the weak points everyone refused existed.
Surely you can appreciate the hypocrisy of it all?
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If you knew anything about product quality and failure analysis, you would be aware that problems are characterized as occurring "one part in 10^n". Apple products (and all products) display all sorts of failures one time in one million and probably even some that occur one time in 10^5.. Companies try to improve their quality and raise the value of n. Apple has a list of failures that occur one time in 100,000 that they are trying to increase to one time in 1M, and so forth. Nothing is a binary problem--it's a scandal or it's non-existant-- as you imply in your posts.

Also, I'm amazed you started posting in 2008. What were you then, like 9?
 
Pbrutto said:
As I posted before, my iPhone6 Plus was replaced a month ago due to a camera lens issue. When the "genius" inspected it, she noted that it was bent at the volume buttons. I didn't believe her so I asked to look for myself and it actually was. Was it still functional? Of course, I never even noticed something was off. However I always have it in my front pocket and I don't wear the dreaded skinny jeans as my "ahem" keg won't allow it. I also have always had it in a case. If mine bent under those conditions, there is a weak spot for sure. That being said, bender bent an unbend able girder....anything can be bent/broken with the right amount of force or with the force applied in just the right spot.
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Im not sure how smart some of these apple genius's are. I had a separate issue, but I overhead a girl saying her phone was bent. He took her phone put it camera side down and of course it rocked. "Yep its bent" he says..... really?
 
WordsmithMR said:
I personally know about 10 people who's 6+ phones bent. My screen shattered inside my jacket pocket when I was walking. As visually pretty, and great internals are, the quality of the 6's build was just horrible. I rarely see a non cracked or bent 6/6+. I find it extremely unlikely that it is everyones fault and not the quality of the phone.
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I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that you're straight up lying. Especially that second bit. Almost everyone in my life has a 6 or 6+ and I've never seen even one bent phone. Nevermind 10 of them. What a joke. Thanks for the laugh.
 
Gasu E. said:
If you knew anything about product quality and failure analysis, you would be aware that problems are characterized as occurring "one part in 10^n". Apple products (and all products) display all sorts of failures one time in one million and probably even some that occur one time in 10^5.. Companies try to improve their quality and raise the value of n. Apple has a list of failures that occur one time in 100,000 that they are trying to increase to one time in 1M, and so forth. Nothing is a binary problem--it's a scandal or it's non-existant-- as you imply in your posts.

Also, I'm amazed you started posting in 2008. What were you then, like 9?
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Nice but a total waste of time :)

Either way, I'm shocked that my 6+ isn't bent!?!!
 
Chill haters. Other phones were weaker than iPhone 6, there are test about it. They just gonna make it tougher. News about it is just blown out of proportion, cause you know it's Apple and those haters are mostly Geeky Nerds. You can imagine how they look and react when they read something like that.
 
JustThinkin' said:
That's bad. I hope Apple doesn't treat it that way at most locations.







How many of you keep it in your front jeans pocket and have no bend whatsoever? I have a 6 and a 6 Plus. I keep one in each front pocket. Neither one will lie flat on a table (both have the Apple leather case). I'm average size and wear normal jeans.

Naturally, the 6 Plus is bent more than the 6. I can feel some pressure on it when I merely sit down to drive.

Perhaps we now know the reason for the protruding lens! It keeps one from noticing the slight bend if the phone has no case on it!

This bend doesn't ruin my phones. I normally never think about it. The phones still work properly, and I'm happy with them. But the bend is very real. It's a design defect - this is why Apple is fixing it. I think they barely managed to slide by without it becoming a major issue.


Who else has noticed this?
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Me, must admit, I didn't believe those bendGate stories. On Friday I noticed on my 6+ iphone had a very slight bending. After some test on a plain surface it reveled as a true bending. I had my iphone in the apple letter case first, now in apple silicon case, it also wears a front tempered glass since day one.

The problem is real and will have to be addressed by apple sooner or later. I don't wear jeans, it started since i wear summer bermudas.

I don't know if by now apple is replacing this bended units.

Thanks for sharing JustThinkin'
 
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Rogifan said:
Oppo R5 is 4.85mm thick. iPhone 6 is 6.9mm thick.

http://www.businessinsider.com/oppo-r5-specs-and-photos-thinnest-smartphone-2014-11

The Galaxy Tab S2 is thinner and lighter then the iPad Air 2.

http://www.iphonehacks.com/2015/07/samsung-unveil-thinnest-tablets-yet-take-ipad-air-2.html

Asus Zenbook is thinner than rMB at its thickest point.

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015...ts-no-macbook-but-its-a-good-midrange-laptop/
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Thank you because I did not know that. I doubt we will ever know if the Oppo bends as they aren't widespread devices? Will be interesting to see what people make of the Tab S2 though.

dannyyankou said:
Because one guy who used all his strength to try to bend it caused bad publicity for Apple, despite so few cases being reported. This was an issue for the minuscule amount of people who had bent iPhones as a result of sitting on it in their back pocket, but I haven't seen a thread complaining about a bent iPhone in months. Anything to strengthen it is welcome though.
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Apple is not going to spend millions of $ changing the iPhones design just because of one guy on YouTube. It is a real issue, people in these comments state that.
 
terraphantm said:
So you are saying the phone isn't meant to be kept in a pocket?
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Nothing - phone or not - that is sensitive, that you care about, should be placed in your pocket if there is a reasonable risk of damage. I think that's the test here, isn't it? What would reasonable people be expected to do under reasonable circumstances? If you want to buy a phone THAT big, not put it in a protective case, and then shove it in a pocket WHICH BENDS and not expect any problems, then you're being unreasonable.

Iconoclysm said:
It's not meant to be in your back pocket while you sit in a chair under your 200 lbs or more rear end. My father has broken two iPhone 5C's doing this, the screens just shatter. Bending would be a "feature" compared to the older phones.
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Exactly.
 
So much for the "double down" on security per Tim Cook.

SJ blood would boil if alleged leaked backplates were being measured and tested on YouTube. What a joke!
 
Gasu E. said:
If you knew anything about product quality and failure analysis, you would be aware that problems are characterized as occurring "one part in 10^n". Apple products (and all products) display all sorts of failures one time in one million and probably even some that occur one time in 10^5.. Companies try to improve their quality and raise the value of n. Apple has a list of failures that occur one time in 100,000 that they are trying to increase to one time in 1M, and so forth. Nothing is a binary problem--it's a scandal or it's non-existant-- as you imply in your posts.

Also, I'm amazed you started posting in 2008. What were you then, like 9?
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What a load of waffle... trying to apologise for Apple, just admit they had a problem. Also 9? Wow, that's a great guess. Grow up.
 
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apolloa said:
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha............

Oh how the many many many people on here strongly stated as a FACT that there was NO issue with bendgate, and yet Apple is 'fixing it' hahahaha...
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Well, I bet you will cheer that Samsung, Sony, Microsoft and all the others with supposedly bendable phones will not "fix" the issue, thus proving there never was a problem.
 
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