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Apple: Bending in iPhone 6 Plus From Normal Use 'Extremely Rare', Only 9 Customers Have Complained
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Hmm. In your scenario, if the percentage holds up and is linear, then I think the math would actually be:
9 * 10 * 200. Which is 18,000.
If there are currently, let's say, 2 million 6+ users, then that would be 18,000 out of 20million. That's about 0.1%.
Left unsaid by Apple:
Only 90 people have managed to get hold of an iPhone 6 Plus so far. 9 of them now have bent iPhones.
/snark
But seriously, anyone here who has paid any attention to how Apple operates knows that they downplay even horribly serious software and hardware issues as company policy. What do you expect them to say? That 50 people have already come in and asked for replacements for bent units after owning an iPhone 6 Plus for a grand total of, what, five days? With two days being on a weekend when they may not have even needed to leave the house?
I will trust user reports a hell of a lot more than I'll ever trust statements from any corporation, including Apple. Time will tell exactly how many people continue to complain of bent iPhones in the coming months. I will not be immediately dismissive of the issue just because the company that makes the product says everything's fine. That's what they always say. You all say not to be so immediately credulous of what shows up on the Internet, well, the same goes in the opposite direction. Don't be so immediately credulous of everything Apple says just because they're you're (our) favorite company.
Only 90 people have managed to get hold of an iPhone 6 Plus so far. 9 of them now have bent iPhones.
/snark
But seriously, anyone here who has paid any attention to how Apple operates knows that they downplay even horribly serious software and hardware issues as company policy. What do you expect them to say? That 50 people have already come in and asked for replacements for bent units after owning an iPhone 6 Plus for a grand total of, what, five days? With two days being on a weekend when they may not have even needed to leave the house?
I will trust user reports a hell of a lot more than I'll ever trust statements from any corporation, including Apple. Time will tell exactly how many people continue to complain of bent iPhones in the coming months. I will not be immediately dismissive of the issue just because the company that makes the product says everything's fine. That's what they always say. You all say not to be so immediately credulous of what shows up on the Internet, well, the same goes in the opposite direction. Don't be so immediately credulous of everything Apple says just because they're you're (our) favorite company.
WHEN will they finally make phones out of CARBON STEEL???
Just before they come out in CAST F#CKING IRON BABY!!!!
Seriously though, don't bend your phone to test this. Take your phone out of your pocket when sitting down or better still don't put it in your pants. The LCD surfaces aren't designed to bend (two layers and all that). I can imagine dead pixels appearing if you regularly bend the LCD this way.
I think is unbelievable that an iphone can be bent and broken so easily!
WHAT!!????? see this video, I think is unbelievable that an iphone can be bent and broken so easily! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkD3xIH28tM
WHAT!!????? see this video, I think is unbelievable that an iphone can be bent and broken so easily! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkD3xIH28tM
Yea i heard that if you hold a iPhone 4 and cover up the Antt get bad reception
Yea remember this one, I had a iPhone and never had this problem, If you give the phone the grip of death in a poor coverage area you getting less bars. This never happened to me, another anti Apple controversy made up by some Anti Apple person.
Oh and my prototype Apple Ring is turning my ring finger green and it is sore and i could loose a finger because of it. This is way in the future anti Apple YouTube video clip that has not been made up yet and posted on the Internet.
Yea remember this one, I had a iPhone and never had this problem, If you give the phone the grip of death in a poor coverage area you getting less bars. This never happened to me, another anti Apple controversy made up by some Anti Apple person.
Oh and my prototype Apple Ring is turning my ring finger green and it is sore and i could loose a finger because of it. This is way in the future anti Apple YouTube video clip that has not been made up yet and posted on the Internet.
That's a great way to crack a screen.
I see no point in asking for a replacement. The best is to contact Apple and ask for a full refund.
I think its Android users trying to make a bad name for Apple. I have had mine since the 19th and have had no issues.
I still don't see those steel/titanium inserts that supposedly reinforce stress locations. Sound like more Apple babble/lies/excuses.
But we don't know the exact number of people that can't complain or chose to live with a slightly bent phone, besides the undeclared number of people with bent iPhones is bound to increase as weeks go by, more sales = various usage scenarios, so yes it is an issue, but nothing to panic about since you can't expect aluminum not to bend under pressure so it's typical yet i expected more endurance.
1. Make the peace sign with your hand.
2. Keeping the peace sign intact, turn your hand around 180 degrees and put your mouth between your middle and index finger.
3. Make a loud farting/sputtering sound and quickly raise your peace sign up in the air.
Internet gullibility is why people get conned out of their hard earned money, day in day out EVERY SINGLE DAY. Bloke on eBay says "I have a car for sale" and he doesn't - person sends paypal payment... waits... AND WAITS...
NO CAR.
Stupidity isn't the preserve of "well respected" tech bloggers with back to front baseball caps on, who post FUD spreading iPhone bending videos on YouTube - it's also adopted by VERY stupid people who are incapable of independant thought... IE, a huge majority of the population who use the 'net.
NO CAR.
Stupidity isn't the preserve of "well respected" tech bloggers with back to front baseball caps on, who post FUD spreading iPhone bending videos on YouTube - it's also adopted by VERY stupid people who are incapable of independant thought... IE, a huge majority of the population who use the 'net.
I will never have to worry about bending my iPhone 6 Plus by putting it in a pocket, when it finally arrives
Because my iPhone safely rides in my inside breast pocket.
I agree with this. Paid ppl to bend and post to make Apple and their Iphones look bad.
Right - because the media NEVER creates chaos unless the story is ABSOLUTELY true
On the other side, companies never try to minimise a real problem, right?
Steve Jobs:
Said with Apple starting to offer free rubber bumper cases to iPhone 4 owners, then allegedly firing the responsible executive and lo and behold, iPhone 4S with a redesigned antenna which fixes exactly the problem Apple stated did not exist in the first place...
I think there is a part of sensationalism in the iPhone 6+ "bending" media coverage, but I also think a problem actually exists (hopefully much less severe than what the "media" describe).