"Bendgate" video = Apple banning media outlet

[dannyyankou]

Good for them. If 1/10 consumers had bent iPhones, they'd have a point. But it's really closer to 1/1,000,000.

Apple should protect their brand, especially when people are using all their strength to try to bend phones. It's like people saying "I ran my iPhone over with my car and it broke. Sue Apple!."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m669QDakJNg

 

[BigHonkingDeal]

Face it, when this boils over like every gate issue has in the past for Apple, the Magazine will still be banned

And that's the problem.

 

[hasanahmad]

And that's the problem.

and like Gizmodo, no one will remember and no one will bother, except Gizmodo and now Gild, They got their clicks and now Apple's response is, well nice try getting more at another Apple event.

 

[Arran]

And that's the problem.

...which the magazine inflicted on itself.

 

[Valkyre]

And that's your opinion.....

Do this with an iPhone

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9J611BuXhw

I'll raise you a boiling test

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMASKehSNQg

 

[dannyyankou]

I'll raise you a boiling test

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMASKehSNQg

"But it's just a cheap plastic phone!"

 

[BigHonkingDeal]

and like Gizmodo, no one will remember and no one will bother, except Gizmodo and now Gild, They got their clicks and now Apple's response is, well nice try getting more at another Apple event.

We should just replace all News organizations with Ad agencies

They did already a great job with network news.....

 

[arftech]

Apple must be really feeling proud of themselves now! Whether bendgate is a real issue or not....it is not classy of Apple to go around banning media houses. Just shows Apple's arrogance to be honest....

God...can't wait for a game changer to come from a company OTHER than Apple...Will be nice to have some humility at 1, Infinite Loop, California!

Until then the show will go on.

 

[BigHonkingDeal]

"But it's just a cheap plastic phone!"

I would buy that in a heartbeat if I could run IOS on it..... Look around you, most iPhones are in cheap plastic cases.

Did you see the part where he ran it through the washing machine?

 

[jpeg42]

and like Gizmodo, no one will remember and no one will bother, except Gizmodo and now Gild, They got their clicks and now Apple's response is, well nice try getting more at another Apple event.

Welcome to the Communist Nation of Apple people. Where all media must be Apple approved.

 

[AdonisSMU]

"But it's just a cheap plastic phone!"

Nothing stops it from being a cheap plastic phone. It may be more durable than an expensive phone. However I'd argue that many plastic items are more durable than their luxurious metallic counterparts.

 

[Dmunjal]

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Or bought.

http://recode.net/2014/08/31/veteran-tech-journalist-anand-shimpi-headed-to-apple/

 

[AdonisSMU]

Welcome to the Communist Nation of Apple people. Where all media must be Apple approved.

That company can say whatever they want about Apple. Nothing is stopping them. Apple doesn't have to grant them privileged access to their Apple events. If you don't act in good faith then Apple doesn't want to deal with you....

I guess you would grant privileged access to people who are dishonest about you.

 

[HenryDJP]

Apple must be really feeling proud of themselves now! Whether bendgate is a real issue or not....it is not classy of Apple to go around banning media houses. Just shows Apple's arrogance to be honest....

God...can't wait for a game changer to come from a company OTHER than Apple...Will be nice to have some humility at 1, Infinite Loop, California!

Interesting post. And you call yourself MacJunkie? Hmm.

 

[Arran]

Welcome to the Communist Nation of Apple people. Where all media must be Apple approved.

Oh, come on now. Enough with the over-dramatization. Apple's not gagging the magazine. The editors can still publish whatever they want.

Apple's just saying: "You're jerks and we're putting you on our ignore list". Same thing that happens to antisocial posters here.

 

[hasanahmad]

Welcome to the Communist Nation of Apple people. Where all media must be Apple approved.

hows the 100s of naturally bent iPhones all over the web freak out working out.....oh wait...

 

[Ergates-thi-Ant]

Must say that's very poor form by Apple. They should be doing the opposite - being more open about the problem.

 

[GoCubsGo]

So... looks like they got the Gizmodo treatment.

R.I.P. Computer Bild

Unfortunately, I don't think they deserve the Gizmodo treatment. Gizmodo's faults were totally different and seriously screwed up. This, on the other hand, isn't what Gizmodo did. Bringing to light how a phone can bend slightly easier than another should not be met with that kind of response. I don't think the bending deal is as big as people say, but I still don't support Apple's response to it.

 

[BigHonkingDeal]

I'll raise you a boiling test

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMASKehSNQg

So I can do this with my iPhone 6 when it gets here? Somehow I doubt it.

 

[maflynn]

Unfortunately, I don't think they deserve the Gizmodo treatment.

Agreed, seems over the top. Two different issues, reporting on a possible defect and actually getting a prototype knowing full well you probably will get into trouble if you do.

 

[hasanahmad]

if anyone even watched the video, they seemed to have banned them not because they bent the iPhone but because they followed it by testing a plastic hardcased Samsung S3 which obviously requires more pressure to bend than even an iPhone 5. Apple probably got riled up because they compared aluminium vs the same material you put on the iPhone to protect it (hard plastic)

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So I can do this with my iPhone 6 when it gets here? Somehow I doubt it.

Please try it.

 

[soundxplorer]

and like Gizmodo, no one will remember and no one will bother, except Gizmodo and now Gild, They got their clicks and now Apple's response is, well nice try getting more at another Apple event.

Gizmodo was invited back just this month.

 

[macjunk(ie)]

Interesting post. And you call yourself MacJunkie? Hmm.

yup...love hate relationship with Apple...Their products work well but they also turn to junk quite fast...(as per my experience with the Macbook Pros)
A little word play happening in that username

So when people spread misinformation about you, lie about your reliability and dependability to people you do business with and then you be sure not to disassociate yourself with them because that would be arrogance to be honest.....

Why wouldn't Apple want to grant access to media companies hell bent on spreading lies for clicks about them? Try putting yourself in Apple's shoes. It's not just Apple's reputation on the line. It's all of the people who work at Apple reputation's that are on the line.

I don't hang around people who I know have lied about me. I don't expect Apple to do so either.

Right. But hey...I am not a publicly traded company selling stuff to consumers charging an eye and a leg. So yeah...I will disassociate myself from the liars...

With Apple, IMHO, I think a different approach would have been better. How are they helping themselves by banning the media house ? Surely, Apple has a louder voice than the media house anyway...so if Apple is confident of its products, it should say so and move on...ignoring the naysayers.
And there will always be a naysayer...we had Gizmodo once and now this one. Quoting from a Chinese proverb, "the Sun does not stop shining cause the dog barks". The Sun does not kill the dog either...

I think people who are not at the receiving end of Apple's attitude will never be able to empathize. I have lost my investment on Apple's hardware prematurely more than once. At these times, Apple, for all its claims of being customer-centric, simply washes its hands of the whole affair. I am not saying the iPhone 6/+ has an issue, but if it did, Apple is capable of washing its hand of the whole affair UNLESS media houses like these amplify our complaints.

Just my humble opinion...I like Apple...wish they tweak their QC and attitude a little bit.

 

[bmt134]

And The Verge gets special treatment withr exclusive access to Apple's QC facility. But The Verge is unbiased, lol...

 

[urkel]

And that's the problem.

Actually, the problem is the fear that it sends out to all the other publications and sites out there. Obviously they jumped on a trend, but are they NOT supposed to? There aren't supposed to be rules for how to report this sort of news but because of Apple's decision then they just established one.

Testing out a theory isn't unethical, it's modern journalism. These guys may have earned their spot on Apple's S-list but, despite PadMini crying in a corner (again) and muttering <sob> "lawsuit" and <waah> "fraud", these guys didn't actually do anything "wrong".