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Apple Modifies In-Store MagSafe Stands to Prevent iPhone 17 Marks
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Yep. Very little titanium in the device. The chassis was recycled aluminum with an epoxy connecting it to a very thin outer titanium frame. Jerry Rig showed off how little titanium there was when the 15 Pro came out. Just marketing BS.
saved me money this time around. That never happens! Easy decision keeping the IPP16 for the foreseeable future.
The back with the charging scratches is not made out of aluminum.just make the same thing out of titanium and charge me 2000 bucks for the base model alright
"Scratches at a level kitten, with deeper grooves at a level cat"
How many iPhones were ruined and had to be put in a landfill before they fixed this?
Seen two pros' already damaged and chipping. The ugliest phone is apples history of making phones. IMO
Why are people complaining about the use of aluminum for the case when the part of the phone with the marks is the glass area? That part would be glass whether the case was aluminum or titanium. The MagSafe connects to that large glass panel on the back of the phone and it seems that some of the holder’s material is rubbing off on the glass.
This is a distinct problem from the anodized color scraping off the aluminum corners when the phone is dropped. That was always a problem but is particularly noticeable with the more intense colors of this year’s phones. The old ones were so gray that no one noticed.
This is a distinct problem from the anodized color scraping off the aluminum corners when the phone is dropped. That was always a problem but is particularly noticeable with the more intense colors of this year’s phones. The old ones were so gray that no one noticed.
True about the titanium shell but it wasn’t epoxy bonded. They used an ultrasonic welding technique to bond the titanium and aluminum directly to each other. They made a big deal about it in the phone announcement video. I think it improved the heat transfer and was a stronger bond than epoxy.
The titanium did provide a harder surface on the outside where the phone would be prone to scratch. The titanium was not really the structural frame of the phone. That frame was aluminum.
Laptops sit on your desk, or your lap. Not in your pocket with other things.
It looks like the invasion of the dumb clones, doesn't it? A horde of unoriginal commenters who keep banging on about the same Aluminum-vs-Titanium fixation, as if they didn't read what has been said for weeks.
Oh look. A scrunchable "eco friendly" "carbon neutral" "innovative" material scratches "insanely great".
Apple has quietly added a protective silicone ring to its in-store MagSafe charging stands following reports of marks appearing on some iPhone 17 series display models, according to Consomac.
The apparent move comes after Apple last month confirmed that worn MagSafe chargers in retail stores were causing what appeared to be scratches on the iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max. There have also been reports of the marks appearing on iPhone Air models.
Apple said the marks were actually material transfer from the stand to the phone, and could be removed with cleaning. The company also noted that other models like the iPhone 16 were affected by the problem.
It's currently unclear whether the in-store display change is localized to France, where the Consomac report originates, or if it's just a snapshot of a more widespread rollout to Apple retail stores in other countries.
Separately, Apple has addressed concerns about scratching on the camera plateau area of the iPhone 17 Pro models, saying the edges have similar characteristics to aluminum cases on other Apple devices, like MacBooks, and may show normal wear and tear over time.
(Thanks, Sylvain!)
Article Link: Apple Modifies In-Store MagSafe Stands to Prevent iPhone 17 Marks
I was just going with Jerry's hands-on. Granted, he just thought it was fancy talk for epoxy. He did say it was a very solid, permanent bond.
Usage by individuals is entirely different and the stands are different. And they are not scratches they are cleanable if one cares (I do not)
Cool, enjoy Android or your aging iPhone. Your choice. Me, I find the iPhone 17 Pros to be superb devices. I even own one.
Actually the "thin outer titanium [alloy] frame" was engineering, not "marketing BS." And it was/is elegant design. Sheesh.
At my local Apple Store, I looked at the backs of a bunch of the new iPhones of each model, and saw on both the glass and the aluminum above the glass, some transfer material that I was able to remove with a finger, some scuffs (some of them fairly bad) that didn't buff out, and some actual scratches, on several of the iPhones that weren't silver. My guess is that a lot of people are pretty rough/sloppy when they set an iPhone back onto its in-store display stand/charger, scraping the back of the iPhone across the face of the pre-silicone-covered chargers (a hard white plastic) until the magnets mate up, but also it looked as if some people might have actually taken something like a key and rubbed it on the back of some of the iPhones to test their durability.
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No epoxy, the titanium and the aluminum were bonded together at the atomic level, using a thermo-mechanical solid-state diffusion bonding process. JerryRig measured the thickness of the titanium band around the perimeter of the 15 and 16 Pro models, and found it's 1mm thick.