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
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Apple: Bending in iPhone 6 Plus From Normal Use 'Extremely Rare', Only 9 Customers Have Complained
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Apple Response to Bend Gate
Did Tim Cook respond as did Steve Jobs with Antenna Gate? There are design flaws. While Samsung and others made their larger phone screens by going to a wide stance, Apple chooses to make it longer. Apply a thin body to the length and you have structural issues. If we don't see a wider, 5.5 inch body vs. length next year to cover up the protruded camera and extra strength across the body where the buttons are, I will eat my shoe.
Did Tim Cook respond as did Steve Jobs with Antenna Gate? There are design flaws. While Samsung and others made their larger phone screens by going to a wide stance, Apple chooses to make it longer. Apply a thin body to the length and you have structural issues. If we don't see a wider, 5.5 inch body vs. length next year to cover up the protruded camera and extra strength across the body where the buttons are, I will eat my shoe.
As one of the people who is claiming to have this issue, I also registered this month. I have posts from the Verizon order status thread. I did not make an account to incite Bendghazi panic and talk trash about Apple.
I'm not a big forum user, and threads like this are exactly why. Everyone's running around in circles, throwing around accusations, and being generally unpleasant. I haven't posted any pictures yet, because I don't really want to further subject myself to that sort of thing, and because my phone is my primary camera.
Honestly, I just want to keep in touch with this issue while I'm within my return window and weigh my options as best I can. I very much like this phone, and I'd like it to survive my two year contract in excellent condition.
Actually it is selection bias. More specifically, it's self-selection bias. When MR advertises that their forum system has no code on conduct that is enforced with any consistency, nor any quality control measures whatsoever, that encourages people whose ideas are vacuous and poorly formed to self-select this site.
You are of course correct that most of the people here generalize from their own limited experiences rather than looking at the big picture.
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
Is that the kind of pressure that's in your pocket? If so, that has to be very uncomfortable!
Apple announces the iPhone 6:
"Let's do the bend test!"
"Let's do the fall test!"
"Let's do the pressure endurance test!"
Samsung announces Galaxy S5:
"Let's do the bend test with iphone!"
"Let's do the fall test with iphone!"
"Let's do the Pressure endurance test with iphone!"
"Let's do the bend test!"
"Let's do the fall test!"
"Let's do the pressure endurance test!"
Samsung announces Galaxy S5:
"Let's do the bend test with iphone!"
"Let's do the fall test with iphone!"
"Let's do the Pressure endurance test with iphone!"
Small but growing number?
Every lazy journalist on the planet, hungry for article hits, is quoting your "small but growing number of iPhone 6 Plus owners" phrase as their source of customers complaints about the device bending. And naming MacRumors as that source. Then some guy with a YouTube channel hears about your article, and using all his strength to bend the 6 Plus into a wide V-shape, infers that this is in some way akin to keeping the device in your pocket. Other than the now world-famous story of the wedding guest with a bent 6 Plus in his pants, and another guy who says the device "felt like it was bending" in his pocket, where is this "growing number?" What are the stats? How many more users are there today than yesterday that are reporting a problem that you say is "growing?" Apple says its gotten 9 complaints so far. That would confirm the "small". But,"growing?" Source, please.
Every lazy journalist on the planet, hungry for article hits, is quoting your "small but growing number of iPhone 6 Plus owners" phrase as their source of customers complaints about the device bending. And naming MacRumors as that source. Then some guy with a YouTube channel hears about your article, and using all his strength to bend the 6 Plus into a wide V-shape, infers that this is in some way akin to keeping the device in your pocket. Other than the now world-famous story of the wedding guest with a bent 6 Plus in his pants, and another guy who says the device "felt like it was bending" in his pocket, where is this "growing number?" What are the stats? How many more users are there today than yesterday that are reporting a problem that you say is "growing?" Apple says its gotten 9 complaints so far. That would confirm the "small". But,"growing?" Source, please.
Did Tim Cook respond as did Steve Jobs with Antenna Gate? There are design flaws. While Samsung and others made their larger phone screens by going to a wide stance, Apple chooses to make it longer. Apply a thin body to the length and you have structural issues. If we don't see a wider, 5.5 inch body vs. length next year to cover up the protruded camera and extra strength across the body where the buttons are, I will eat my shoe.
Jobs responded to the antenna issues 2.5 weeks after the first reports. Give it some time.
You've seen them, but YOU are the one are here writing about them? Full of it...Of course you "still have your iMac.. lololololol! And a Lumia to boot... The iMac statement was meant to show that you are objective or that you too were worried it might bend.... LMAO! Why you wasting so much time writing about how concerned YOU are and ask those legions of friends in your "rural" area to post some screen shots of those "bent" phones..
How much are they paying you per post? .01 cents each??
Fail.
People are accustomed to putting their phones in their pocket. This is not new news.
Apple did not mention any caveats about putting the iPhone6/6+ in a pocket.
Did they expect people to change their habits without any warning from the manufacturer?
I believe Apple knew this as an issue/risk but figured it was low risk.
They may have thought wrong and this could cause some very bad press for a phone otherwise appears to be a good iPhone replacement.
Well, selection bias happens in experiments or surveys when choosing a sample group. There's no experiment or survey being made here. Nobody is being chosen. It's just few reports on the internet and people overgeneralizing from those few reports.
That was a legit thing, I remember getting my iPhone 4 day one and in the car home calling someone and having the call constantly dropped and wondering why when my 3GS in the same area had full signal my 4 can't get a call for more than 5 seconds.
The irony in this post is quite palpable.
Perhaps some of the MR members on here should take their Apple equipment apart, including the iPhone 6, and exchange them for models without any Samsung components in them?
Ride the press wave? MR made this a front-page story when the photos were first posted. They started the press wave. Every other story on this linked back to MacRumors.
You just spun that as much as Apple did. Apple never stated that the problem did not exist. Your own quote acknowledges that there was a problem.You can clearly see them along the sides in many of the pictures. There are at least 5 of them along the left side of the device. Having seen the inside of an i6+, I can attest to those being partially for the screen tie-down, partially for support.
People were accustomed to drop their cellphones on the floor without any damage being done since the screen was small and not made of glass. When smartphones became the new norm, people's behaviour changed. They started treating them more carefully than their old nokias.
It happens all the time with new technology.
Nokie made great phones, no doubt about that, but not smart phones. That's why it got bought by Microsoft, a software company.
I doubt you have a new iMac. You might have a window 8 with tough screenand thought you have an iMac.