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The number of people here attempting to blame the user is astounding.

I take extraordinarily good care of my devices. I owned an iPhone 4 and 5 for close to two years each, rarely had either one in a case, and resold both of them in near mint condition upon upgrading. I've been keeping my 6+ in an Apple leather case and have rarely put it in my pocket (but when I have, it's been in my loose-fitting front left pocket with plenty of room to breathe and no apparent pressure on the device).

My phone is now subtly bent down on the top left corner, making it uneven.

I haven't contacted Apple yet, as I'm weighing my options. If it turns out to be an issue with the 6+ model, I don't want to swap for another phone one week into having this one that's just going to do the same thing--but the regular 6 already feels very small after getting used to this one.

Clearly user error apple doesn't release half baked products like Google does. This was bs fiasco from get go. Just like antenna gate in didn't have one issue with my 4 and I didn't use a case. Most people just ruin it because of their stupidity and blame apple for their own user errors. Read the manual perhaps and have common sense don't stuff the i6+ down your pocket and intentionally damage it then blame apple for bad quality construction. Jon ive doesn't make bad products. There are only bad users.
 
LOL. People saying its a Samsung campaign, or media backlash or its not Apple fault.

I live in a sparsely populated rural area and I know two people with bent phones. This is not hype.

Are you that far gone to not see the issues.

The biggest issue is they are now not "cool". Too many sales, reduction in quality. Damage the image and you damage the sales. It will take a while, but this will be severely damaging, certainly more so outside of the U.S.

They have rested on their laurels, focused on margin rather than development and the Iphone 6 is the result. Yesterdays specs, clone looks and buggy software.

If you hype the product and don't deliver, people get pissed off.

They are going to have to eat margin and pull something out of the bag for the 6s.
 
Seen this before from people who don't like Apple and they are a Android phone fan

Ok this is what you do if you don't like Apple, you buy one of their products with Applecare, and you get a really hard phone to get like the iPhone 6 plus. Then you know that it is thinner now and larger, so you put as much pressure on it so it will bend in a unreal pressure test. Then you put it on Youtube and say all i did was have it in my pocket. Then people who do not have one think that they are not good. I you hope they will buy a blow up in your face Android unit.

Saw this over the years with people who do not like certain companies products, come up with some stupid stunt to try to get other to think the product is not good or will lie with reviews of a product.

Or buy a hard to get brand new PS3 and smash it on the street and post it on youtube. Hey every body look how cool i am, look what i did. roll eyes!!!!!!!
 
Even though this thing BLEW UP on Twitter and Facebook, everyone was using the same few images. The people with ACTUAL bent iPhones under NORMAL USE (not bend-testing) are very very few. Get over with it people. The 6 Plus is fine for everyday use.

That stupid UnboxTherapy guy really is the one to blame for blowing up such a worthless cause, and he probably generated a whole lot of cash out of it. His video is currently at 23million, and on average, Google Ads gives $3/1000 views, meaning he probably profited almost $70,000 out of his video, and maybe more.

That's what I'm saying.... Where's the beef????
 
9/10,000,000+ is 0.0000009 or 0.00009%

I am sure that is much lower than many other failures out there.

The thing I have issue with is I remember Apple bragging about how the iPhone 5 was made out of aircraft grade aluminum. I don't recall them bragging about that on the iphone 6. Were cost saving measures implemented?
 
Does a bent iPhone add character?

Does anyone want a bent phone? Does anyone think it looks cooler add grip, help you tell which one is yours?
 
Wait a minute...

"9 people have reported the problem"

and then

'bending under normal use is "extremely rare."'

What? How would they know it's "extremely rare"? The things have only been under normal use for days, and if they are talking about during the testing period "extremely rare" sounds like quite a few were bent given the testing size.
 
Lol

The phone has not even been in customer's hands for more than a week. This is not rare, its the tip of the iceberg. This is like Microsoft calling the RROD rare for Xbox 360 after a few dozen complaints in the first week.

I agree that people can do more to protect their phone from bending, but I mean come on. Apple is spending billions on sapphire research to improve the durability of their display screens. They want Unbreakable and Unscratchable to become synonymous with Apple devices. But that is all moot if your phone is going to bend after having only one "aw ****" moment.

I think we may have hit the thinnest a phone can be for a while. Apple may have made a mistake trying to be the thinnest phone out there. Even if they were 1 mm thicker, they could have both avoided the protruding camera issue AND perhaps a thicker metal back might have avoided #bendgate. Being 8mm is pretty great for a phone these days.

And where is Apple's quality assurance in all this? I mean did they do no stress analysis or consider real world usage scenarios? Or were they just so proud and quick to get iPhone 6 Plus out the door they dropped the ball on testing the case design properly???

Perhaps Apple can learn a thing or two from how Ikea puts their ****** furniture through aggressive quality testing...
 
I wouldn't be a bit surprised if Samsung has been planting people to criticize Apple. Samsung's users are quickly approaching cult like with their anti-Apple rants. I have a coworker who just has to criticize Apple and Apple users on a daily basis. These people need an intervention. lol

To be fair, Apple fanboys are just as bad
 
LOL. People saying its a Samsung campaign, or media backlash or its not Apple fault.

I live in a sparsely populated rural area and I know two people with bent phones. This is not hype.

Are you that far gone to not see the issues.

The biggest issue is they are now not "cool". Too many sales, reduction in quality. Damage the image and you damage the sales. It will take a while, but this will be severely damaging, certainly more so outside of the U.S.

They have rested on their laurels, focused on margin rather than development and the Iphone 6 is the result. Yesterdays specs, clone looks and buggy software.

If you hype the product and don't deliver, people get pissed off.

They are going to have to eat margin and pull something out of the bag for the 6s.


That's funny tho... You know two people but you yourself don't have one? Hmmm... Hearsay...
 
If only nine customers complained, then why is the story and images "spreading like wildfire"?


Because android fanboys love drama that support their opinion that they still own the most advanced devices available and a lot of media & youtubers are only in it for views/ click bait.
 
That's what I'm saying.... Where's the beef????

You called?

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Dear apple,

please make titanium unibody cases CNC'd out of a solid block of titanium please. I would be willing to pay for it. :cool:
 
My friend's behaviour shows just how peope's rational thought processes fail to engage, and how stupidly gullible people become, once they start taking everything they read online, as LITERAL TRUTH:

My friend, today: "I suppose if your pocket got warm, it could soften the aluminium and make it bend"

My face...

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DOES YOUR ALUMINIUM SAUCEPAN BEND WHEN YOU PUT IT NEXT TO THE COOKER?

DOES YOUR ALUMINIUM BIKE FRAME BEND IN SUNSHINE?
 
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