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Black iPhone 5 Anodized Aluminum Susceptible to Scratching?

BigBeast said:
Get your friggin head in the game Apple. I don't know WTF Jony was thinking when he designed this. This clearly doesn't meet Apple's standards when Steve was around. Did Steve actually ok this?? :(
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Never. Steve when they introduced the first model of iphone, when it got scratched from keys turn back model to new manufacturing.
He was crazy about these details. Now seeing this is kinda shock.
But main thing that worries me is that customers dont bother anything just to get the new phone. This shouldnt happen for such phone.
 
KdParker said:
Pics?
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maybe im using wrong link?
 
My friend has a £5k Leica M9 Camera. Loads of brassing on that after a short while. He doesn't care as he takes pictures with it and brassing is part of the retro-styled Leica vibe.
 
ap4lifetn said:
just got my black ip5,


found scuffs near the top out of the power button, you can actually feel the scratch


and around the ban there is a white spot which isn't coming off, almost like a spot on a car that did not get any paint
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Sorry. There are many reports of this. Apple says they will not take it back, is within spec. Maybe with AppleCare+? It will only cost $150 to then get a unscratched phone, hopefully.
 
breezie said:
Geez MacRumors - you took the most extreme case to focus on with this article. The main problems that most folks are actually worried about in the discussions are:

(1) Black Iphones are comming new out of the boxes aready scuffed.

(2) Black Iphones are getting scuffed from NORMAL handling with hands - not metal on metal.

Now everyone only reads "Iphone will get scuffed if you take a key to it" and will not talk about the actual problems.
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pipa said:
I'm the biggest apple fan/supporter there is, and for anyone who is brushing this off is wrong. My friend just text me a picture and his band is scuffed out of the box on a black one. Now I understand full we'll that your going to get scratches, but c'mon. I can only imagine in 6 months how people's phones are going to look. I absolutly loved the black one but based on this I'm going to pick up the white one. This is a prime case of life after Steve jobs. His attention to detail and his relentless pursuit of perfection could never be replaced. And I would bet my life on it that maps would have never been released. Regardless it's still the best phone/os out there and ill continue to support them
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nba1341 said:
lol you apple trolls are saying the design is the best.

Wear around the edges come on my 4s would never wear around any edges

EDIT: btw 95% of you completely ignored the wear on the edges. WHo gives a **** about the scratches
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THIS^^^^ is what I was getting at and yet, there is so much flippancy from other thread posters about this issue. It will be very interesting to see how this pans out in the long run.
 
MH01 said:
No, they need to remove the image and reference to the tool that scratched a phone with keys. It's sidetracking people who struggle to read the whole post and get attracted to images.
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Yeah, but then the article would be completely ignored because many people would rather not read, or look at something without pictures.
 
Macist said:
My friend has a £5k Leica M9 Camera. Loads of brassing on that after a short while. He doesn't care as he takes pictures with it and brassing is part of the retro-styled Leica vibe.
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The iPhone 5 isn't a retro design...

Seriously - this thread is full of people saying "Metal scratches durr" but they haven't seen all the pics of new phones (and there are plenty about) with the bare metal already showing through the chamfered edge. This is after hours - in six months what will these phones look like? No-one expects indestructibility but on the most expensive mainstream phone on the market they have a right to expect some durability.
 
KuntryBoy said:
I was thinking this might be the case ever since they announced the black one. But seriously... The guy who scratched it deserves to pay for it. Maybe they should hold him down and take a key to his skin and see if his skin breaks with enough scraping across it.
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You are a completely rational person....
 
VenusianSky said:
Seriously, Macrumors needs to take this article down from main page. It is just getting people furious over something that isn't news. Does Macrumors actually hate Apple and want to get people angry at them over aluminum being susceptible to scratching? It's not like Apple discovered aluminum...or did they :eek:
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No they should leave it there for all to see. This is pretty serious and people deserve to have a place they can talk about it. Where buying a $700 phone that if you set it on the table the wrong way it may scratch it. Not cool. And if mr was to take it down because of bad news then there wrong. I love apple products to death, but if this is a problem where in a week or two your black iPhone turns into the new metal iPhone, then apple deserves to suffer the reprocusions. They had 6-8 MILLION people buy a phone they never even seen before, just because we trust that it will be the best quality money can buy. I can promise you that next iPhone, people are going to be a lot less eager to preorder. Since the yellow screen issue I vowed no more per ordering and I'm glad I did cause I would have purchased the black one.
 
wgnoyes said:
Well, surprise! I mean damn, if you don't want your iphone scratched up, don't dump it in the same pocket as your car keys, jeez!

http://www.senacases.com/apple/iphone-5-cases/ultraslim/
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Short memories here, this is exactly why gorilla glass was used on the front of the phone, 'cause Steve had scratched the front screen of the phone with keys in his pocket and he said people don't want this..

Obviously, everybody puts a phone in their pocket and there's either keys or coins in there, and no we don't want out $1K phone scratching up within seconds..

Apple have always been particularly week on this are to my mind (4g iPod back, latest iPod nano case & iPhone 3 for me, all damaged far too easily) and somehow the iPhone 4 was a step forward (in the "getting scratches all over" area anyway..) and it seems they haven't tested it enough and judged people's reactions to such damage..

First thought I had when I saw the aluminum case was that it was beautiful but easily damaged..
 
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i can't recall if there's a scratch proof metal...? correct me if i'm wrong.
-- oh wait! Adamantium!


stop over reacting. there's no scratch proof metals. if you want something scratch proof, switch back to 4 or 4s, the glass used is scratch proof.
 
Article title is equivalent to

"grass is green"

Sure its not ideal for the price range im worried too! but i was worried since they announced is was anodized aluminium as of course it will scratch.
 
Why not hard anodize?

I am a little surprised by this. you can hard anodize aluminum black or "clear" (natural aluminum color) pretty easily, we do with with parts all the time at our local metal finisher. Its very much more resistant to wear; the surface after hard anodize is likely much harder than what you'd try to scratch it with, unless you take a carbide tool or diamond to it. Basically, a hard anodized part would scratch your keys rather than get scratched by your keys. Someone with Apples expertise and scale could surely hard anodize in colors if they wanted.

maybe they didn't do this because of tolerance? hard anodize builds up on the surface usually .002". but again, Apple could figure this out. i mean, they are already cutting 725 different inserts for the glass.
 
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Anyone else noticing how very hard the Tech press is working against Apple these days?

I suppose the days of Apple being the darling child of the tech world is over…but still I can't help noticing how ultimately amatuerish the tech press appears these days in their quest for pageviews.
 
pipa said:
No they should leave it there for all to see. This is pretty serious and people deserve to have a place they can talk about it. Where buying a $700 phone that if you set it on the table the wrong way it may scratch it. Not cool. And if mr was to take it down because of bad news then there wrong. I love apple products to death, but if this is a problem where in a week or two your black iPhone turns into the new metal iPhone, then apple deserves to suffer the reprocusions. They had 6-8 MILLION people buy a phone they never even seen before, just because we trust that it will be the best quality money can buy. I can promise you that next iPhone, people are going to be a lot less eager to preorder. Since the yellow screen issue I vowed no more per ordering and I'm glad I did cause I would have purchased the black one.
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No one is forcing you to buy an iPhone, or any product for that matter that is made of metal, which is vulnerable to scratching. My car is covered with scratches and I paid much more for it than any iPhone.
 
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