Apple Watch is dangerous ... For Apple Store Windows

[ChristianVirtual]

happen just last weekend in Japan.

http://www.huffingtonpost.jp/engadget-japan/apple-watch_b_8201936.html?ncid=tweetlnkjphpmg00000001

An Apple Watch was pressed to a window element at an Apple Store in Tokyo and shattered it ... Hope Apple Care is covering that

 

[LoveToMacRumors]

in what situation would you put your watch face against a window..

 

[ChristianVirtual]

Waiting in line for a iPhone, wrist between back and window as cushion ...

 

[JayLenochiniMac]

I don't get it. Someone accidentally banged their AW against it and that large window rather than the AW shattered?

 

[perkedel]

happen just last weekend in Japan.

http://www.huffingtonpost.jp/engadget-japan/apple-watch_b_8201936.html?ncid=tweetlnkjphpmg00000001

An Apple Watch was pressed to a window element at an Apple Store in Tokyo and shattered it ... Hope Apple Care is covering that

THEY'RE DOING IT WRONG!

 

[Enygmatic]

I don't get it. Someone accidentally banged their AW against it and that large window rather than the AW shattered?

Apple opted for the Sport version of the store...

 

[poematik13]

the sapphire crystal is harder than the glass they used for the window. people use diamonds to cut windows all the time

 

[maflynn]

the sapphire crystal is harder than the glass they used for the window. people use diamonds to cut windows all the time

Agreed, no surprise at the result. Perhaps they should not have been resting against the window.

 

[btrach144]

I assume someone with a sapphire Apple Watch was talking with their arms and smack their arm(watch) right into the glass? Pretty crazy though that the entire glass cracked like that.

I'm surprised they even kept the store open considering how tall the glass is.

 

[JayLenochiniMac]

the sapphire crystal is harder than the glass they used for the window. people use diamonds to cut windows all the time

But sapphire is more shatter prone, yet it's the glass that shattered. Probably due to the glass being tempered?

Pretty crazy though that the entire glass cracked like that.

That's characteristic of tempered glass.

 

[poematik13]

But sapphire is more shatter prone, yet it's the glass that shattered. Probably due to the glass being tempered?



That's characteristic of tempered glass.

Yeah most high end storefront glass is tempered. It takes a few good hits to shatter it. The watch was probably pressed against it with its corner, by a person's weight so thats at least 100-150lbs of pressure pressed against at a single point, its definitely not rated for that especially not when its a material harder than the glass itself. so it spiderwebbed.

 

[Night Spring]

I'm surprised they even kept the store open considering how tall the glass is.

It says they closed the section of store near the shattered window.