Full-Device Skins Causing 'iPhone' and Regulatory Labels to Peel Off Back of Jet Black iPhones

[eyehop]

Feature! I love de-branded products. I hope they don't fix this. It still has the Apple logo mark, no one needs the rest of the info/legal clutter after purchasing.

 

[ronntaylor]

They said "small number" about the Note 7 too...

Yeah, no. There's no such thing as a small number of potentially dangerous smartphone fires, especially in an airplane.

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This is such a whiny society when people get all bent out of shape over such trivial things. When no opportunity is missed to bring up Steve Jobs and Apple's decline, and Tim Cook is...

 

[ProphetX]

Wow!

 

[RedOrchestra]

So when they say "a small number" the do in fact mean a small number relative to the larger ownership.

Can you provide verifiable links that cite those numbers?

 

[tentales]

full-skin aficionados should be extra careful.

Careful my a$$.
This is a problem how ?

 

[LasersGoPewPew]

I currently have a skin on my Jet Black and I wouldn't mind if the labeling came off if I ever peeled the skin off.

 

[Munky]

My Jet Black 7+ doesn't have any of that bottom line crap shown in the picture.

Because you're in the US and they passed a law where it's not required to have that stuff....other countries still have to have it.

 

[tentales]

Owners should be extra careful? Really? I didn't realize the fine print on the back of the phone was required for the phone to function properly. Sheesh.

In their heads.
If it doesn't say "iPhone" on the back...

 

[kycophpd]

Regulategate has a much nicer ring.

 

[cableguy84]

This would never have happened under Jobs' watch

 

[tentales]

Bad design. Bad QC. Bad Apple.

I used to laugh when people said Apple was going downhill after Steve's death... But now it's totally apparent the all Tim Cook cares about is profit. He doesn't give a crap about making great products anymore.

Seriously? I care *jack* about iP7 but no label no loss.

 

[raybo]

The airlines won't ban your badgeless phone...

 

[tentales]

Feature! I love de-branded products. I hope they don't fix this. It still has the Apple logo mark, no one needs the rest of the info/legal clutter after purchasing.

I cover all my iDevices to hide the Apple logo. Theft prevention.

 

[dylanwho]

I opt for the high-end glossy finish, and then stick it in plastic wrap. Like my sofa.

I also won a gold medal in the olympics; I loved it so much I had it bronzed.
[doublepost=1476813940][/doublepost]"Doctor! It hurts when I do THIS!"

 

[iop]

Apple is notorious for paint issues. Take iPhone 5 for example, paint near screen edges got stripped within a few months of usage. Apple never admitted the problem.

 

[Kobayagi]

Which ****** came up with the regulations for those labels anyway? Do they HAVE to be on the back a phone? It's ruining the design with the crap no one reads anyway. Just implement it in the software or something.

 

[iop]

I also won a gold medal in the olympics; I loved it so much I had it bronzed.

Stop telling lies! It was I who got the gold medal. You got silver.

 

[Rocketman]

First of all, peeling off not rubbing off. Secondly how many current readers used Silly Putty, newspapers, or less likely, both?

The extra smoothness is clearly the reason. Anodizing is amorphous. I am guesing this new finish is glassy.

 

[iShater]

Apple Silicone case was applied as soon as I removed the plastic wrap Foxconn applied before boxing.

Why buy that lovely finish and cover it up?

 

[Thunderhawks]

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How come almost every issue with an Apple product is described on here as "A small number of....."?

Because this was GUARANTEED already discovered by Apple's QC department.

There is a simple tape test for silk screening, which I assume the printing is.
Sometimes initial production is different from pre-production samples and they have to develop more adhesive ink.

So, maybe they all passed the tape test, but are reacting with the material used for the protector..
Thus, they were probably not able to test the chemical reaction between screen protectors and their ink.
(Maybe they even checked a few of the most popular)

Let me also add that as long as one does not put anything onto that printing it will not come off like that, or by going naked only over time with sweat from ones hands.

Apple can't foresee what users do after they buy the phone, but then again GUARANTEED they are already working on a fix.

 

[mi7chy]

Is the apple logo affected?

 

[Chupa Chupa]

So you can peel it off... the question I want to know is does it taste like Apple?

 

[Mactendo]

And still people will pretend that's "a feature" of a $869 magical device.

 

[rmatthewware]

Steve would have ... totally loved this! All about simplicity and minimal labeling.

 

[citysnaps]

Was the "skin" an Apple product? Or was it a poorly designed cheap knock-off?