Apple's C1X Modem Faces First Reported Failure in iPhone Air

[moxie_mittens]

Just another reminder to never buy first-gen tech, from any company. No exceptions!

with this logic there can never be a second-gen

 

[thegerman]

Apple was never good in connectivity.

 

[9640418]

This is an absurd post. 1 phone died out of millions sold? LOL

 

[ralph_sws]

This is a common problem with Pro and Pro Max phones, but Apple quietly replaces them with new ones. This information comes from a European service. Not every user reports this on MacRumors or Reddit.

 

[anthonylambert]

Front page news. An Apple product fails after purchase! They ship millions of these a year and one goes wrong? It probably got hit by a cosmic ray, **** happens...

 

[dandyryan]

"iPhone Air" "failure"

time to make it the new iPhone SE!

 

[Jett0516]

Had this exact problem with the 16 plus. You'll get a new logic board.

 

[ProbablyDylan]

It's important to bash the Air whenever possible isn't it?

 

[TonnyM]

Steve Jobs would never let that happen, Cook needs to be fired, Apple is doomed 🤪

 

[SilmarilFinder]

I'm so sick of those stupid fake "shocked" faces.

Apparently those faces end up with more clicks because people tend to respond to “stressed” faces than happy ones. And it’s all for clicks.

 

[lazyrighteye]

I think I heard about a guy whose iPhone 17 Pro volume UP button wasn't working consistently.
I wonder if there will be a recall?

 

[bluecoast]

I'm not an Apple apologist, but with millions of units out there, there's going to be some hardware failures due to the law of averages.

I can only report that my 11 month old 16e - with the first gen Apple modem - is totally fine, here in the UK.

 

[budselectjr]

Just another reminder to never buy first-gen tech, from any company. No exceptions!

Just a reminder everything can break, from any company

What a terrible article.

 

[klasma]

I don’t have an iPhone air but part of me wants this to end up being another “antenna-gate” type thing. Anything to wake Apple up. Lately, their products just seem to fall flat with very tiny incremental updates and kinda jank (iOS/siri issues) and just mid out of the gate. Just nothing exciting and nothing that doesn’t have a bunch of issues.

90% of quality issues with Apple are software issues, not hardware issues. So I would prefer them to not be distracted by new hardware issues.

 

[Pupi]

This is a common problem with Pro and Pro Max phones, but Apple quietly replaces them with new ones. This information comes from a European service. Not every user reports this on MacRumors or Reddit.

If it was, we'd seen a lot of complaints about it here. It's BS.

 

[Abazigal]

I don’t have an iPhone air but part of me wants this to end up being another “antenna-gate” type thing. Anything to wake Apple up. Lately, their products just seem to fall flat with very tiny incremental updates and kinda jank (iOS/siri issues) and just mid out of the gate. Just nothing exciting and nothing that doesn’t have a bunch of issues.

Except the C1 modem is anything but incremental. Such a seemingly simple piece of technology belies the sheer amount of time and resources that went into Apple customising it the way they wanted, not only for the better battery life, but also the (supposed) cost savings from not having to pay Qualcomm their licensing fees.

It’s features like this which tend to go under the radar with very little fanfare because it doesn’t really change the way you use your phone, but I like how Apple is able to innovate outside the constraints of standards. And I continue to support them doing this every opportunity they get. 😊

 

[Farquar]

It's not specific to this. I stick by what I said; ignore first-gen tech. Simple.

Do whatever you want, of course, but I prefer to let the early-adopters deal with the issues.

What issues? We enjoy the devices. You pretend not to envy them. Your statement is baseless and holds no water.

 

[HouseLannister]

Millions of devices sold, one reported failure. Pretty good ratio.

Millions? Of the Air? Hahahaha

 

[ab2c4]

One failure in millions of phones seems to be very good. Hopefully that isn't the tip of the ice burg though and just a super rare thing.

 

[tomtad]

The iPhone Air isn't a good product. Still, this modem failure is only newsworthy if it is affecting a fair number of units, a single failure isn't anything anything unexpected.

 

[IceCool]

Just another reminder to never buy first-gen tech, from any company. No exceptions!

What a ridiculous claim to make here.

As someone else pointed out, millions of these devices have been sold. It has been several months since launch. One known failure. That's statistically incredible when you think about it.

 

[Ursadorable]

Oh no, one single dude on reddit claims something😱

As usual, if it's posted on Reddit, it's likely BS or severely conflated. There's a reason why reddit has a bad rap. Anyone proclaiming something as "fact" off a reddit post should have their journalism creds immediately revoked.

 

[kotaKat]

One failure out of how many sold? Where's the journalism asking relevant questions to properly frame the article?

Slow news day it would seem.

That’s because it isn’t Sunday yet for the next newsletter.

 

[Radeon85]

Apple has sold over 5 million Airs, and ONE malfunctioned? Okay...

One so far. Failures happen, but I'd only start to worry once more start showing up.

Will be interesting once every iPhone has an Apple designed modem and there’s 100m+ of them out there around the world, then we’ll see how well they’re designed.

 

[AltecX]

It's not specific to this. I stick by what I said; ignore first-gen tech. Simple.

Do whatever you want, of course, but I prefer to let the early-adopters deal with the issues.

You're not guaranteed to have less issues on any generation of anything. Look at Toyota, and GM, both ahve been building automatic transmissions for decades and they still are getting sued over them.