Has the bending thing died down?

[jpeg42]

I don't care if they take it back after bending it and apple agreeing to replace it.

But it is dishonest and unethical for people to claim "my phone bent" and make claims about "normal usage" or defects near the screw, or mistakes in the forging of the aluminum, or other claims that people have made, rather than just saying "I bent my phone".

I would blame a stuck pixel on you since you seem to complain about a lot of things in general. For other people, it is more logical that a stuck pixel is a variance in the quality of the screen. But a stuck pixel is not even close to some of the ridiculous claims of "my phone bent" when it is clear from how much it has magically bent, that it was user error.

Again if Apple takes it back, then why do you care? It is not for you to judge if it is ethical or not because you don't know how it was bent.

 

[HenryDJP]

You must admit though, the shirts they force Apple Store employees to wear it's DREADFUL. I cringe and nearly wet myself even thinking about seeing that nasty color ever again.

Uh, I was only kidding about people complaing about the shirts. What's wrong with their shirts? "Dreadful"? Hmm, that's very extreme. I think they are fun and colorful. In a world of going to Target and Walmart where everyone is wearing the same Red or Blue shirts at least at the Apple store the shirts are divided based on what job the employee has at the store.

Also when I buy electronics I like a fun atmosphere. I don't take pleasure in going to store where the employees wear boring dress shirts and a tie and pretend to act overly perfect.

 

[Jayson A]

iPhone 4/4S cracked glass hysteria went away

iPhone 5/5S bending silliness faded

This bending nonsense shall too pass.

I don't remember seeing a website with 500 bent iPhone 5s. The iPhone 5 is not a flimsy phone.

I don't care if they take it back after bending it and apple agreeing to replace it.

But it is dishonest and unethical for people to claim "my phone bent" and make claims about "normal usage" or defects near the screw, or mistakes in the forging of the aluminum, or other claims that people have made, rather than just saying "I bent my phone".

But a stuck pixel is not even close to some of the ridiculous claims of "my phone bent" when it is clear from how much it has magically bent, that it was user error.

People say stuff like that all the time until it happens to them. I've had every single iPhone to date and none of them bent and I was never worried about them bending. If your iPhone bends, but you have no recollection of handling it wrong, then would you still say it's user error?

Maybe it doesn't happen over night. Maybe by carrying it in your pocket the same way day after day slowly warps the phone at the weak spots.

You don't wake up one day and say "my tires worn down on my car, but I don't ever remember doing doughnuts!" Because it doesn't happen in one day, and that's why people don't have a video of the iPhone bending in their pocket.

I notice from time to time, my iPhone is twisted slightly yet I never leave it in my pocket. I take it out to drive, I take it out when I sit, I take it out at work, and I don't sleep with it. It's only ever in my pocket when I'm walking (and I have loose fitting jeans)

 

[McDaddio]

Again if Apple takes it back, then why do you care? It is not for you to judge if it is ethical or not because you don't know how it was bent.

You are wrong, I every right to judge whether or not an action is ethical. When people don't take responsibility and just blame others for some magical auto-bending phones, and then takes either whines for a replacement or bad mouths a company, that falls in the unethical category

Or do you think there is some national ethics board that is the only entity allowed to judge?

 

[BvizioN]

www.oneofthenine.com - new cases added daily, sadly.

Ha ha, you make me laugh

It's called internet where everyone can claim anything and pretend to be anyone

It's your choice what to believe and what not.

 

[Rootus]

It's called internet where everyone can claim anything and pretend to be anyone

Pretty much. Judging by the vitriol directed at anybody offering up criticism for Apple or even the hint of a suggestion that Apple may have screwed up, it would seem there are a number of paid puppets on MR which are claiming and pretending to be ordinary consumers.

 

[BvizioN]

Pretty much. Judging by the vitriol directed at anybody offering up criticism for Apple or even the hint of a suggestion that Apple may have screwed up, it would seem there are a number of paid puppets on MR which are claiming and pretending to be ordinary consumers.

Paid puppets on MR? Care to back up with facts?

Mean while, Samsung have admitted paying shills to do things like some self called "critics" around this forum have been doing for years. So I would not blame anyone for not believing anything.

 

[Rootus]

Paid puppets on MR? Care to back up with facts?

You have a better explanation? There are "people" on MR that are going way, way, way beyond garden variety corporate white knighting. Yes, there are some people who just don't have critical thinking skills who are going to knee jerk defend Apple, but this stuff is amazing to watch -- a few of these guys are posting so much that they literally don't have enough time to hold down a normal job while keeping up the pace. So it probably IS their paid job, LOL.

 

[BvizioN]

You have a better explanation? .

Yes, I do have a better explanation. Just because some people have enough time to waste in this forum, that doesn't put them on a payroll. And what you saying goes both ways. There are also people going well well beyond their ways just trying to make a non issue big issue (few people like oneofthenine springs to mind)

They always pretend that they are simply criticising Apple btw.

 

[McDaddio]

People say stuff like that all the time until it happens to them. I've had every single iPhone to date and none of them bent and I was never worried about them bending. If your iPhone bends, but you have no recollection of handling it wrong, then would you still say it's user error?

Yes.

When I sold my 5 and took off the case I saw that the there was a chip in the metal trim. I don't for the life of me remember that I ever dropped it that badly or bumped it into something so harshly that it would have take a chip out of the metal...but it obviously did.

Just because you don't remember that something happened, doesn't mean it didn't. And it is more likely that your memory is faulty, or you weren't paying attention, than your phone, and the other eight phones that bent, bent without any undo force and user error.

 

[Tomasmekean]

I just had my iPhone 6 replaced at the apple store. I thought it was all BS with people bending the phone with normal use. I made a six hour drive to meet family for Thanksgiving and during the trip I kept my phone in my front pocket on top of my wallet. The phone was in an Incipio feather for iPhone 6. The case isn't a life proof or otter box but I thought it would provide enough protection. After I arrived I noticed that my phone looked different. I took it out of the case and you could see the bend. I made an appointment the next day at an apple store and showed them the phone. They asked me what happened and I explained everything. I was told that the phone doesn't bend like that under normal conditions and I expressed again what I said was the truth. The employee was very polite and professional the entire time. After about fifteen minutes of checking out the phone he said he would replace it one time for free. He then said that I needed to get a better case to protect the phone or not keep it in my front pocket. He said that he would send the phone to apple for review to see what went wrong.

 

[Ibaorus]

I think I just did a bend test, well kind of. I woke up this morning, and I realized that I slept on my iPhone. Fortunately, it's OK, I mean no bending whatsoever.

 

[apple.snapple]

For the heck of it, I took my iPhone 6+ out of its Apple Leather case for the first time since release day....

sure enough, I have a wiggle on a known flat surface... just on one corner and ever so slightly, but it's there. Thankfully, I would have never have known if I didn't take it out of the case, but I'm still kinda disappointed.

I've NEVER put the phone in my pocket whatsoever. It sits in the dash mount while driving. As soon as I get home, the iPhone sits with my car keys by the door and I use the Macbook/iPad while I'm at home. I have no idea how it got bent.

 

[T5BRICK]

For the heck of it, I took my iPhone 6+ out of its Apple Leather case for the first time since release day....

sure enough, I have a wiggle on a known flat surface... just on one corner and ever so slightly, but it's there. Thankfully, I would have never have known if I didn't take it out of the case, but I'm still kinda disappointed.

I've NEVER put the phone in my pocket whatsoever. It sits in the dash mount while driving. As soon as I get home, the iPhone sits with my car keys by the door and I use the Macbook/iPad while I'm at home. I have no idea how it got bent.

It probably wasn't perfectly flat out of the box.

 

[xraydoc]

For the heck of it, I took my iPhone 6+ out of its Apple Leather case for the first time since release day....

sure enough, I have a wiggle on a known flat surface... just on one corner and ever so slightly, but it's there. Thankfully, I would have never have known if I didn't take it out of the case, but I'm still kinda disappointed.

I've NEVER put the phone in my pocket whatsoever. It sits in the dash mount while driving. As soon as I get home, the iPhone sits with my car keys by the door and I use the Macbook/iPad while I'm at home. I have no idea how it got bent.

Are you sure you're not looking at the protruding camera lens?

 

[apple.snapple]

Are you sure you're not looking at the protruding camera lens?

yeah I should have clarified that a bit.
I had the camera hanging over the edge of the flat surface as to not interfere with my "flatness" test. Thanks for pointing that out.

All in all, I'm still pleased with my purchase and will continue to use the 6+ and look forward to the (hopefully not as bendy) next gen iPhone.

 

[iolinux333]

Paid puppets on MR? Care to back up with facts?

Mean while, Samsung have admitted paying shills to do things like some self called "critics" around this forum have been doing for years. So I would not blame anyone for not believing anything.

There's both here. It's a horrible phenomenon all over the net, starting more than ten years ago, but to ridiculous levels now. Political forums are worse, with every foreign government and all their agencies all over the place. The net is a cesspool now and I doubt it's fixable. The beginning of the end was when AOL opened a portal.

 

[itsmemuffins]

I just had my iPhone 6 replaced at the apple store. I thought it was all BS with people bending the phone with normal use. I made a six hour drive to meet family for Thanksgiving and during the trip I kept my phone in my front pocket on top of my wallet. The phone was in an Incipio feather for iPhone 6. The case isn't a life proof or otter box but I thought it would provide enough protection. After I arrived I noticed that my phone looked different. I took it out of the case and you could see the bend. I made an appointment the next day at an apple store and showed them the phone. They asked me what happened and I explained everything. I was told that the phone doesn't bend like that under normal conditions and I expressed again what I said was the truth. The employee was very polite and professional the entire time. After about fifteen minutes of checking out the phone he said he would replace it one time for free. He then said that I needed to get a better case to protect the phone or not keep it in my front pocket. He said that he would send the phone to apple for review to see what went wrong.

You kept your thin aluminium phone, in a tight jeans pocket on top of a fat leather wallet, for six hours and wondered why it bent?

 

[Tomasmekean]

You kept your thin aluminium phone, in a tight jeans pocket on top of a fat leather wallet, for six hours and wondered why it bent?

Yes I did but the wallet is a leather money clip and is thin... Also I have made this same trip with the original iPhone, 3G2, 4S, and the 5S and I haven't had a problem before. Am I saying that it is apple's fault 100% no. If I wouldn't have put the phone in my pocket and have made the drive then I wouldn't have had a bent phone. Should I be able to keep the phone in my front pocket like I have done every year before??? In my opinion yes I should. I am thankful that apple replaced the phone with out charging me the $299 fee. I also know now that I must be more careful with this phone than the others.

 

[itsmemuffins]

Yes I did but the wallet is a leather money clip and is thin... Also I have made this same trip with the original iPhone, 3G2, 4S, and the 5S and I haven't had a problem before. Am I saying that it is apple's fault 100% no. If I wouldn't have put the phone in my pocket and have made the drive then I wouldn't have had a bent phone. Should I be able to keep the phone in my front pocket like I have done every year before??? In my opinion yes I should. I am thankful that apple replaced the phone with out charging me the $299 fee. I also know now that I must be more careful with this phone than the others.

I've had my naked 6 since the 19th of September and it's been in my front pocket by itself on many a journey, in my left pocket, car is a manual. No bending problems.

 

[AirThis]

I've put my iPhone 6 in my pocket everyday in the hope that it might bend. Despite my best efforts it won't. Sad. I have nothing to complain about.

 

[Itzamna]

All i know is that this bend stuff made me super paranoid with my iPhone 6... Even more than what i always been with my hardware... I've always been super hiper careful with my stuff, but with this phone i'm breaking records of "carefulness" every day. lol

And on top of that i'm always checking if it's bent or whatever... For example, today i was with my phone in a jacket inside pocket and someone pulled my jacket from behind with some force which made the front of my jacket to stretch... I'm pretty sure that the pocket the phone was in was not even "tight" when i was pulled, but even so, i spent the first half hour when i got home, checking my phone from all angles and with different lights... :/

So, in the name of everybody that as this kind of disorder, can we please stop with this before we go mad...? lol Yea, we know that they bend, no need to show us everyday that they do...

 

[sovereign]

Someone at Thanksgiving dinner had a bent 6. He had no idea how it happened. Didn't seem too concerned either.

 

[iolinux333]

All i know is that this bend stuff made me super paranoid with my iPhone 6... Even more than what i always been with my hardware... I've always been super hiper careful with my stuff, but with this phone i'm breaking records of "carefulness" every day. lol

And on top of that i'm always checking if it's bent or whatever... For example, today i was with my phone in a jacket inside pocket and someone pulled my jacket from behind with some force which made the front of my jacket to stretch... I'm pretty sure that the pocket the phone was in was not even "tight" when i was pulled, but even so, i spent the first half hour when i got home, checking my phone from all angles and with different lights... :/

So, in the name of everybody that as this kind of disorder, can we please stop with this before we go mad...? lol Yea, we know that they bend, no need to show us everyday that they do...

And that is why I refuse to get a new iPhone. I don't wasn't that level of stress.

Delicate phone is stressful.

Also I live where it rains a lot and the possibility of getting caught in rain and having water damage is very real. Not waterproofing the phone is cheap. Many less expensive phones are fully waterproof to depth.

Delicate iPhone that I can't put in pocket or have with me unless I have umbrella, for $1000? lol no

 

[iceperson]

You kept your thin aluminium phone, in a tight jeans pocket on top of a fat leather wallet, for six hours and wondered why it bent?

I've had my naked 6 since the 19th of September and it's been in my front pocket by itself on many a journey, in my left pocket, car is a manual. No bending problems.

I'm confused. Is it safe to carry an iPhone 6 in your front pocket or not???