Apple is NOT Replacing Bent iPhone 6's, Regardless of Visual Inspection

[cynics]

I can't tell from your comment which side of the fence you sit on...


The problem is, people come here to report bending - in case there is an issue.

The extreme Apple fanboys want to blame them completely instead of coming to terms with the fact that there MIGHT be a problem... no matter how SMALL of a number of devices it affects... claiming they are all here to slander Apple. And are paid by Samsung.

It's ludicrous.

And it's not helpful or kind. It provides no good contribution to the discussion.

I agree with you. I'm open minded enough to know a thin device made of aluminum can bend.

My post was to illustrate that Apple will not be recognizing it as a defect but as abuse.

Case in point would be the OP.

 

[I7guy]

These devices are thin and as such are subject to some type of deformation. What Apple is trying to do is not replace devices purposefully damaged. I think its a fine line.

 

[Robert1-1]

Another lame analogy. A MTB and road bike are in a completely different class made to do much different things. A MTB is made to be ridden off road, while a road bike sacrifices structural strength to make it much lighter and faster (as well as quite different handling properties, but we won't get into that.) And BTW, many top of the line MTBs have frames made of aluminum and do not deform with normal usage as long as you don't crash into a tree or something. So the fact that an iPhone 6+ is made of aluminum is no excuse. If the aluminum casing was a few microns thicker there'd be no issue.

An iPhone is just another mobile phone and expected to have the same kind of durability as it's competitors. A better analogy would have been I rode my last 6 models of specialized bikes over the past six years on the "XXX" trail and the lastest model has a bent frame. But, I didn't crash into a tree so not exactly sure how it bent. Get it?

Again people going on about "normal usage" and expecting a new phone of a totally different design to behave in the same way as their old phone and missing the fact that it is a completely different design.

I used to ride a BMX, I could throw that thing around in the dirt and bash it up and down kerbs with no worries of buckling a wheel. I then moved onto an MTB which again I could throw about in the dirt and bash up and down kerbs with no worries. Today I'm riding a road bike, only an idiot would throw that about in the dirt and bash it up and down kerbs and expect it to stand up to the same abuse as my other bikes.