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Apple: Bending in iPhone 6 Plus From Normal Use 'Extremely Rare', Only 9 Customers Have Complained

what we expect

Analog Kid said:
What do people expect to happen as they keep slimming down the aluminum and making the glass more flexible to prevent cracking?
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What we expect is that the phone will be designed to survive normal use, and not be slimmed down just to look sexier in the display case.
 
nathanalf said:
Not sure. How come the iPhone 5, 4s, and 4 bending didn't cause a media craze like this either?!
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Because the 6+ is an Android killer and bendgate is the only thing they can complain about it so far, other than the bug issues in the 8.0.1 upgrade, which was a software rather than the phone itself
 
Nine people, yes. But how many days have they been using it? And it isn't even on sale in most of the world yet...

When ten times more people have been using the phone 200 times longer in much more casual way than you use a brand new phone, then we shall see many bent phones there are.
 
The guy from unboxing therapy is getting called all kind of names as if he did something to personally offend people with iPhones lol. Both Apple and Samsung fanboys/sheople crack me up
 
kr11048 said:
Yeah, only 9 so far...but that ain't out of ten million. They may have SOLD 10 million the first weekend, but they are a long long way off from actually delivering those 10 million phones so that anxiously waiting customers can bend them. I ordered my 6+ on Sept. 13 from AT&T and they are promising me that I will actually have it by...November 27th!! Also, let's remember that these problems emerged in the first 5 days. What kind of shape are these phones going to be in after a year or two of riding in pockets?
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It's out of more than 10 million. 10 million was only the first three days. If your phone won't be delivered until Nov 27th, than you weren't counted in the 10 million.
 
ioioos said:
Its not hearsay. I have seen them.

I don't have one. I had a 5 (and I still have my iMac).

I waited for the keynote, and upon seeing the lack of innovation, I sold my 5 and bought a Lumia 930 the next day.

It is leaps ahead! I've let go of my love of Apple and I can now see what others are saying.

Just look at the amount of people on here looking for conspiracy theories, rather than facing up to the fact that quality control and innovation is making way for margin at apple.

My 2 month old iMac (which I love) is not as well built at my previous 5 year old one. Screen burn issues etc.

I'm old enough to remember the Apple fall from grace first time around. I see a repeat pattern here.

They lost Steve back then, and the innovation made way for margin, which ended up pushing them to the brink.

20 Years later, its happening again, but there is no Steve to come running back and get them on course.

The stock is now so powerful, they probably fear taking innovation risks.
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You never owned an iPhone!
 
alexgowers said:
I think this is going to be the last aluminium frame iPhone. Can we just go back to steel frame ok?

Nine is not going to be the real number, in a year we will see literally thousands of people with wonky phones.

Mine will not be crooked but i look after my **** and take care of it.
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In a year we would always see thousands of people that broke their phones. I don't expect the fraction of people who break their phones to be any different. This is good though because it will remind people that phablets need to be handled differently than smaller phones, and that's no ones fault except Mother Nature.
 
ioioos said:
The stock is now so powerful, they probably fear taking innovation risks.
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I think bendgazi will blow over pretty quickly, but for today, the stock is down 3 and a half percent. It's a good time to pick up some AAPL (I did).

"Buy the bend!"
 
Dekema2 said:
If only nine customers complained, then why is the story and images "spreading like wildfire"?
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Haven't you noticed that the media tends to sensationalize?

Look at it this way. Suppose it was 900 customers. That is still a TINY fraction of total sales. If we assume 3 million iPhone Pluses in the wild (slightly under one third of total sales for opening weekend) then with 900 bent you are talking about .03%.

This is not a significant number.
 
Dekema2 said:
If only nine customers complained, then why is the story and images "spreading like wildfire"?
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Because of one idiot posting a video of him forcing himself to a point of trembling to bend the phone !

Fud plot by samsung !
 
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kr11048 said:
What we expect is that the phone will be designed to survive normal use, and not be slimmed down just to look sexier in the display case.
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EXACTLY !!!

I rarely see an iPhone naked with no case/cover.
The otterboxes are starting to take over it seems.

All that design to make it skinny/slim is wasted since the majority put it in a case to make the phone twice as thick, wider & longer to PROTECT IT !
 
sidezero said:
I'm placing it screen down. The camera is facing up. I had 2 coworkers test and their phones do not experience what mine does.
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From the start I've wondered about a 2nd issue: NOT bending, but maybe a few phones having a slight warp from the factory. Most people would never notice, and I don't intend to look for it when I get mine! But it might be true. Look at products around you from ANY company, lay them on different sides, and you'll discover slight non-flatness or unevenness is practically the rule, not the exception. It's just that we pay attention sometimes (media storm!) and not others.

I'm not saying any iPhones (or any significsnt number) are "pre-warped," but some past Apple products have shown that (PowerBook G4) even if it never got much attention. So I wonder about the possibility.

Wonder--but not worry: the BACK of the phone will always wobble on a desk without a case (not that I have ever used a phone that wat) and I will NEVER use my phone face down. (Who would?) There is literally no circumstance in which I would notice a slight curve (not damage/bend) EXCEPT when a blog post makes me look for one 😛 So I will not look. I will not test my own theory...

uknowimright said:
love that people are blaming Samsung for this, you guys are funny
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It's the kind of thing Samsung has been fined for before. But I'm with you: the simplest explanation is:

- A bend, even your own fault, is frustrating in a new expensive purchase. A mystery bend? Even more so! Motivation to post/complain.

- Anti-Apple trolls (most unpaid) are common. ALL trolls are common on the Internet.

- Apple "sheeple" are actually the most critical of Apple of anyone! They hold Apple to a higher standard, and will pitch a fit easily. (I know I'll tolerate all kinds of bends and cracks and creaks and cheapness in my Dell display and Logitech keyboard that I would be very bugged by in an Apple product. They've set expectations by giving me better!)

- The Apple name sells ads for so-called "journalists." It's also a way to write an article without doing work. Research? Facts? So old-fashioned. Seriously, even the BBC News has been riding the "bend" story for days, without bothering to dig for whether it's even a story!

That all adds up to fictions and non-issues becoming "gates"... with no need for Samsung or anyone to spend a dime.
 
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I'm glad folks will get replacement phones, but I hope this gives Apple some food for thought with the thinness obsession. And, quality control.

They are spreading themselves way too thin (in more ways than one.)
 
anonymous82 said:
Because the 6+ is an Android killer and bendgate is the only thing they can complain about it so far, other than the bug issues in the 8.0.1 upgrade, which was a software rather than the phone itself
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You may be on to something.

Most of the popularity of "bendgate" is because it's a profitable negative story about Apple, not because it's a problem a lot of people are having.
 
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