Has the bending thing died down?

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I'm no manufactures advocate, even for Apple, a company I've been fiercely loyal to for two decades. I've voted with tens of thousands of dollars in Apple purchases over the years, that's my part.

That I should have to baby my rather fragile iPhone 6+ is rather disgusting.

Make no mistake, I take very good care of my tech gear, but Apple is pushing their luck.
 
i got into apple a few years back, 2003, and the guy who got me into it basically told me that you have to treat something like this like you love it.... it's an extension of yourself.... after 4 hard years of use my laptop finally crapped out and do to being a pour ass fool at the time, started using windows again. and let me tell you, i was hard on the thing....

i started to get a little obsesive with fluidity, speed, and general appearance of my tech, and tried to build a super pc. it's sat to the left of me for about 2 years, after about 6 months of trying to get it to work as smoothly and perfectly as my now 2 year old mac mini thats just as capable. as a matter of fact, spec for spec, i think the only thing the pc had on this was the graphics card....

about 6 months before i went to build the pc, i bought a used at the time 3 year old macbook. it's now 5 years old and works perfectly. i use it as an extra laptop now that i have my air, and for something guest to use if they need a computer... the kid i bought it from basically said the same thing to me as the guy who first got me into apple way back when..... i still remember it work for word when he saw me put it down when i went to reach for my wad of hundreds..... "you gotta treat it like your girlfriend bro, she's a lady"

it's technology, not a hammer. it's going to get scuffed and nicked and bent if used to roughly....
 
Surf Monkey said:
No. I just don't buy that angle. Every phone isn't a bend waiting to happen. That's an empty position.
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This is what people don't get here. They think that the bending is like scratchings/scuffs/marks that appear as you use the phone, meaning the longer you use, the more of these you get.

Bending relates to your usage habits. If you normally sat on it with your elephant a... it is not going to wait 2 months to happen. It will more then likely happen on the very firs week you use it, or even on the very first day. You don't have to babysit it. Just use your common sense (I know it's hard for some) like with any other device of that size/value.

And personally I don't buy this "it did bend by itself"
It goes against the laws of Physics!
 
dagdagdag234 said:
Seems that way. Why do you think? The "bad batch" is done with? People don't bother to make a fuss now?Or are people just being extra careful now that they know its more fragile than other phones?

(I think that's what I'm doing)

Oh, and you're welcome for bringing this up again. I'm sure you're all thrilled.
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There was no bad batch.
People just stop trying to intentionally bend it.
It works

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iososx said:
I'm no manufactures advocate, even for Apple, a company I've been fiercely loyal to for two decades. I've voted with tens of thousands of dollars in Apple purchases over the years, that's my part.

That I should have to baby my rather fragile iPhone 6+ is rather disgusting.

Make no mistake, I take very good care of my tech gear, but Apple is pushing their luck.
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It's not fragile. I mean, not more than any other high tech thin and light device.

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Rootus said:
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.
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We are speaking about Apple, not Samsung.
Apple doesn't need to pay loyal happy customers.

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iolinux333 said:
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.
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Again, NOT. Apple was never found guilty of such a dirty game. Samsung was.
 
jpeg42 said:
You lose all credibility when you pull out the Samsung conspiracy theory. Sorry.

Edit ... And the Apple white knights jump all over anyone with the bending issue. I have no sympathy for them when they get it back some.
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To be very fair Samsung is and has been known to do things just like that, they got caught a few times and very recently also hiring and paying a bunch of people to go on forums/websites talking garbage and nonsense about the HTC M8 and putting it down, and they got caught doing this to their competition

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jpeg42 said:
All technology, not just Apple. They are not a targeted victim here. Devices are constantly scrutinized for stuck pixels, dust, gaps, inconsistencies, deformities, etc, etc. The techie crowd wants near perfection for a high cost device. If you can just brush it off and not care, more power to you. But other people want better than that and they have every right as a consumer to do so. (Although I don't side with folks who do multiple returns. if it doesn't work for you once, move to something else).

Again, not Apple specific here. But everyone seems to think Apple has some special target. They are not that special anymore.
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Apple is the biggest tech target in the tech industry still, get off your high horse Android boy....no other company has to deal with FUD and high expectations and standard as Apple does

People associate Apple more with "perfection" then any other company and most consumers hold Apple to a higher standard then any other company
 
Bahroo said:
To be very fair Samsung is and has been known to do things just like that, they got caught a few times and very recently also hiring and paying a bunch of people to go on forums/websites talking garbage and nonsense about the HTC M8 and putting it down, and they got caught doing this to their competition
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The only problem is it is a "thing" on thse forums to dismiss a person;s viewpoints if they aren't talking about Apple in anything but a positive way. I read the "you must be paid by samsung" garbage rather regularly, especially in a thread like this. I have been accused myself.

Silly thing is, it doesn't move the discussion in any direction at all. It's not like the poster, should he be a shill, will proclaim "you got me!" It's just an overall pointless comment.

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Bahroo said:
get off your high horse Android boy....
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And then the comments like this... :rolleyes:
 
lordofthereef said:
The only problem is it is a "thing" on thse forums to dismiss a person;s viewpoints if they aren't talking about Apple in anything but a positive way. I read the "you must be paid by samsung" garbage rather regularly, especially in a thread like this. I have been accused myself.

Silly thing is, it doesn't move the discussion in any direction at all. It's not like the poster, should he be a shill, will proclaim "you got me!" It's just an overall pointless comment.

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And then the comments like this... :rolleyes:
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It was torwards the "Samsung conspiracy theories" comment , which actually isnt far off at all from a theory or conspiracy, because Samsung has been known to do it tons of times and has got caught a few times doing it

And of course he gets described as that, it isnt easy at all to tell he is biased torwards Android and is anti Apple lol judging by all his post history, biased statements and comments dont really have a place in this subjective topic
 
Bahroo said:
It was torwards the "Samsung conspiracy theories" comment , which actually isnt far off at all from a theory or conspiracy, because Samsung has been known to do it tons of times and has got caught a few times doing it
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It doesn't matter why it was said, if you can't recognize that comments like that aren't going to move a conversation forward in a positive way, I don't know what else to tell you.

Yes I realize there are shills. Oh well. It sucks. Blindly calling people to be shills (I remind you again that I have been claimed to be one more than once) is nothing more than finger pointing.
 
lordofthereef said:
It doesn't matter why it was said, if you can't recognize that comments like that aren't going to move a conversation forward in a positive way, I don't know what else to tell you.

Yes I realize there are shills. Oh well. It sucks. Blindly calling people to be shills (I remind you again that I have been claimed to be one more than once) is nothing more than finger pointing.
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And of course he gets described as that, it isnt easy at all to tell he is biased torwards Android and is anti Apple lol judging by all his post history, biased statements and comments dont really have a place in this subjective topic
 
Bahroo said:
And of course he gets described as that, it isnt easy at all to tell he is biased torwards Android and is anti Apple lol judging by all his post history, biased statements and comments dont really have a place in this subjective topic
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You can dislike Apple and not be a shill. But whatever man. Justify your finger pointing all you want. I am just telling you that it isn't moving the conversation in any direction. If he is a shill/troll, calling him on it will only keep the posts coming.

But whatever. Carry on...
 
Bahroo said:
And of course he gets described as that, it isnt easy at all to tell he is biased torwards Android and is anti Apple lol judging by all his post history, biased statements and comments dont really have a place in this subjective topic
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I don't have any android phones that are active (well an OG Note that I keep by my bed on wifi). All my household devices are made by Apple. I just don't blindly suck apple off just because they are Apple.

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Surf Monkey, sorry I called you Barf Monkey.
 
Surf Monkey said:
"Back pocket" is a location, not a reason for how something became bent.
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for once I agree with Surf Monkey.

back pocket is not a reason, weak-point and structure issue is the root cause of the bend.

And of course force is applied. if people want to argue that all bend 100% blamed on forces used, then expect iPhone 7 to be made of paper.
 
kingofwale said:
for once I agree with Surf Monkey.

back pocket is not a reason, weak-point and structure issue is the root cause of the bend.

And of course force is applied. if people want to argue that all bend 100% blamed on forces used, then expect iPhone 7 to be made of paper.
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Every phone, in fact, every thing ever made has a "weak-point". That is not a root cause.

There is no evidence of a "structural issue", so that isn't a root cause.

The root cause of bending is that people bend their phones. It doesn't happen by itself.

The iphone 7 will NOT be made of paper. Stop trying to start that rumor.

papergate is not going to happen.
neither is fletch.
 
Surf Monkey said:
"Back pocket" is a location, not a reason for how something became bent.
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"My car wrecked!"

"How?"

"It was on the road!"

(Conveniently omits the fact that the person was driving too fast, in the rain, on a wet roadway, and lost control of their vehicle and hit a tree - the car just mysteriously "wrecked" while "on the road" - like how phones just mysteriously "bent" while "in a back pocket".)
 
kingofwale said:
for once I agree with Surf Monkey.

back pocket is not a reason, weak-point and structure issue is the root cause of the bend.

And of course force is applied. if people want to argue that all bend 100% blamed on forces used, then expect iPhone 7 to be made of paper.
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I've finally realized Surf Monkey is in agreement here. He just seems to argue on semantics for some reason. I didn't know that is what we were arguing about for like a month and I just had to say....phone is in the pocket.....AND external force causes the bend at the flaw in the phone design. On this last point he seems to agree.
 
Obviously some external force has to be applied. "I put my phone in my pocket" is not a reason why it got bent. Whether or not the phone has a design flaw is open for debate. Personally I don't think it has a design flaw.
 
Having had the 6+ for over 2 months now I can say I'm not worried about the bending thing one bit.

I carry my phone in my front pocket on a daily basis. In slim jeans, in cargo pants, in jogging pants, no bend to date. My work environment is quite harsh (I'm an aircraft engineer), I bump into stuff on a regular basis. On top of that, I commute on my motorcycle which puts my legs in a 90-ish degree angle, pressing the phone against my leg. No issues.

I had my concerns when I just got the phone but now I'm pretty confident it will not just bend with normal usage.
 
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