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I am the latest victim of the 6+ bending

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Apple released a new commercial this morning to address the Bendgate controversy. It's available here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIiZ3vvZ78s. It seems to be aimed at a younger crowd, but that's probably because it's the demographic that's experiencing the issue the most what with the tight jeans and such.
 
justinf77 said:
I believe you OP. The same thing happened to me, but I decided I'm just not going to worry about it for now.

I was also doing the 4 corner test because I wanted to determine whether or not the aluminum on the phone was prone to bending from normal, everyday use. I even went to the gym with the phone yesterday and checked it afterwards to make sure it was perfectly straight, and it was.

But earlier today, when the phone was sitting on my desk, I noticed that one of the corners seemed to be hovering slightly. Pressed down on it, and sure enough, the phone wobbled a bit. I took it out of the case - for the first time since I got it - and tested it with the screen facing down. Yep, there was definitely a minor wobble.

I applied the tiniest amount of pressure to see if I could get it back to original form, and it worked. There's no wobble now. But this experience definitely made me believe that these phones are prone to bending. I didn't do anything with the phone yesterday that could have caused this other than sit with the phone in my front pocket.

Aside from this, I still love the phone, and I'm definitely keeping it. The phone is insured with AppleCare+ so if anything too bad happens in the future, I'll be covered.
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This is the most rational post I've seen. It's a nice way of saying, "it's bent slightly after regular use but I can live with it." To be honest, that's true with most choices. It's very rare that you get every thing you want in a purchase. There are pro's and con's to any purchase. It's what gets you closest to the experience you want. All of the "for x amount of dollars the user has a right to expect perfection". That's horse hockey!

Some people's regular use may result in relatively insignificant bending and it may or may not bother them. While others may perceive/experience nothing adverse whatsoever. A few folks may torture their devices through their choices of storage/use and the bending could be worse.
I will bet that when user satisfaction surveys are analyzed downy he road it will show that the 6+ will receive very high marks.
I chose a 6 as the 6+ is way too large for my use, comfort, etc. However, if I had decided to upsize, I would have had no qualms about purchasing a 6+ and could live with the type of bending described by the OP.
 
T5BRICK said:
It isn't visible to the naked eye and you can only notice it when you lay it face down and push on the corners? Basically, if you weren't checking it every day, you'd never know.
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The point is, it's happening. These phones should not be bending with normal use, I'm sorry. I too have had every iPhone since the first and they've always been very durable and worn well.

It's almost a month into its lifespan. I wonder just how widespread this problem will wind up being. The Plus is a gorgeous device. This really is too bad.
 
I7guy said:
The third group are people who may think their phone is bent, in reality it may or may not be.

Probably health pros want to look at all groups.
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Good point.
I read a post about someone who actually tested his phone on a daily basis!
 
mailboxbetacoin said:
thanks for literally acknowledging that my problem was real

(Man, I love that 'quoting with one word change' you came up with, looks like a powerful tool for these debates)
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Except that the single word in my case didn't change the meaning at all. It is very telling that you made a completely dishonest change to my post in order to "illustrate" something that didn't happen.

"Just haven't bent YET." Vs "haven't bent YET."

"Obsessed with fake bending" Vs "Obsessed with genuine bending"

In your rash attempt to manufacture a "gotcha moment" you've elegantly illustrated exactly why your objection to my comment has been unmitigated BS all along. Just a ham handed diversion from the actual substance of the post which was that you WANTED your phone to be bent, you WANTED to be a victim of bendgate, you've been going on and on about class action lawsuits for days and BEHOLD!! suddenly your phone is "invisi-bent!"

Self fulfilling prophesy.
 
Surf Monkey said:
Just a ham handed diversion from the actual substance of the post which was that you WANTED your phone to be bent, you WANTED to be a victim of bendgate, you've been going on and on about class action lawsuits for days and BEHOLD!! suddenly your phone is "invisi-bent!"

Self fulfilling prophesy.
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This.
Anyone who is checking their phone on a daily basis and then running off to a forum rather than the Apple Store to address any perceived issues has a lot of complex issues going on.

I think everyone is missing the REAL controversy here.
Someone does a daily check of their phone.

Then after day 15, it bends!

This is what we all fear...that products have a built in timer in which the flaws only show up the day after the return policy lapses or the warrantee is over!! Even after it passed the daily check on day 15!

This is bigger than bendgate, bigger than hairgate, bigger than wavegate.

This is: phoneselfdestructsafterreturnperiodisovergate!
 
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mailboxbetacoin said:
fascinating... or maybe the phone is just a little bent... you know, just a little?

I have been diagnosed all kind of problems here, from anal to brain problems, just from reporting a slightly bent phone. It's truly fascinating
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Because a big chunk of people that post on this forum are truly dumb. I believe you because when you plop down $1000 on something, you expect a certain level of quality and that doesn't include bending or warping as a part of "normal wear." Scratches and scuffs are to be expected. Not a loss of structural integrity that isn't the result of a drop or something.

It's by calling attention to a problem that a problem gets fixed. UnboxTherapy's video did us all who love Apple's products, a service.

I'm planning on buying a 6 Plus this week, but I want to go into it with my eyes open, not in some fanciful state of denial.
 
Mahler12x said:
you expect a certain level of quality and that doesn't include bending or warping as a part of "normal wear." ... UnboxTherapy's video did us all who love Apple's products, a service.
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You are funny!
You think what unboxtherapy did to the phone to bend it is part of "normal wear"!

LOL.

How do you treat your other expensive purchases?
 
cfedu said:
how is the bending fake?
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Dude can't even see it. Preemptively refuses to prove his claim in any way. Has an established history of claiming that all iPhones are bend cases waiting to happen. Had been going on for days about how there should be a class action lawsuit before his bend report. Has been obsessively checking his phone for bends every day...

What conclusion would a rational person draw from that?
 
Surf Monkey said:
Except that the single word in my case didn't change the meaning at all. It is very telling that you made a completely dishonest change to my post in order to "illustrate" something that didn't happen.

"Just haven't bent YET." Vs "haven't bent YET."

"Obsessed with fake bending" Vs "Obsessed with genuine bending"

In your rash attempt to manufacture a "gotcha moment" you've elegantly illustrated exactly why your objection to my comment has been unmitigated BS all along. Just a ham handed diversion from the actual substance of the post which was that you WANTED your phone to be bent, you WANTED to be a victim of bendgate, you've been going on and on about class action lawsuits for days and BEHOLD!! suddenly your phone is "invisi-bent!"

Self fulfilling prophesy.
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Monkey, let's try one more time: you said I LITERALLY said that there were two kind of iPhone 6+ users; if I literally said that, should be easy to link to it? Yet you won't...

And since you keep going with your claims, you are stating in this post that I am "going on and on about class action lawsuits for days"
Ok, same deal, quote me and send links. To save you time, here's the link to the conversation you probably refer to:
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1792522/

If you look at my first comment mentioning the class lawsuit, you would see it's a humorous come back.

If that wasn't clear enough, this was my second post in that discussion:
yeah, unfortunately a lot of fanboys don't realize that they're not helping here...

I would consider myself a fanboy too; but I am a fanboy for a reason, I like higher quality products, products made with better material, products that look and feel great and that are more durable.

I have iPods and Macs for years and years, and with a basic level of care, those products stand the test of time, just a scratch here and there on the aluminum that gives them character.

This phone is different; first we can all agree it is much less attractive than the 4 and the 5; and having to worry about your phone all the time as if it was a baby is just an annoyance. Good technology, good design, should be there to help us with our daily lives; we should not have to think about it all the time.

Whether it is bad design or bad execution at the factory, something is not as it should be here, and the later they acknowledge it and repair it, the worst it becomes for the company. As fanboys, we should help them realize early on that it's a big issue if we want that company to succeed.
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In total, I posted 3 posts in that discussion, over a period of 27 min

So coming back to your statement, how did I go on and on for days about a class action lawsuit, please explain and document.

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Surf Monkey said:
Had been going on for days about how there should be a class action lawsuit before his bend report.
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document this statement
 
Mahler12x said:
Because a big chunk of people that post on this forum are truly dumb. I believe you because when you plop down $1000 on something, you expect a certain level of quality and that doesn't include bending or warping as a part of "normal wear." Scratches and scuffs are to be expected. Not a loss of structural integrity that isn't the result of a drop or something.

It's by calling attention to a problem that a problem gets fixed. UnboxTherapy's video did us all who love Apple's products, a service.

I'm planning on buying a 6 Plus this week, but I want to go into it with my eyes open, not in some fanciful state of denial.
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I remind you that the OP's iPhone is still straight as an arrow visually. It's not normal to obsessively perform a sound test on a daily basis to such a degree unnoticed by 99% of users, especially with the protruding camera on the back where it matters the most. Already one 5s user found out his iPhone makes clicking noises from seeing this thread.

A big chunk of people on this forum are truly anal retentive.
 
mailboxbetacoin said:
We all become beliebers at some point.

I found a table to try it on that HAS to be 100% flat for people like you: I placed my phone face down on my iPad screen (screen against screen).
It still wobbles.
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I'm sorry but I don't believe you. You have shown us nothing so far. Make video of it wobbeling on the flat surface of he iPad, with your username on it and i will go an eat a crow. It shouldn't really be too hard.
 
McDaddio said:
You are funny!
You think what unboxtherapy did to the phone to bend it is part of "normal wear"!

LOL.

How do you treat your other expensive purchases?
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Obviously what Lou did wasn't "normal wear" but it showcased just how fragile the thing really is compared to the competition and even to previous models of iPhone. That's useful information. Because of this, I'd expect the S iteration to have a little more attention paid to making it more structurally resistant to bending and warping. How is that a bad thing?

Like I said, I'm still getting a Plus, but I'm happy to be doing it eyes open, thanks to threads like this.
 
mailboxbetacoin said:
If you look at my first comment mentioning the class lawsuit, you would see it's a humorous come back.
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what is humorous about this?

same for us; if we decide of a class action lawsuit, we have got all the evidence we need too
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You are claiming that you have gathered evidence for use in a class action lawsuit if you, as part of a group, decide to pursue one.

I didn't know this was your position before. Puts new light on your claim that you were checking your phone on a daily basis and somehow after the return period is up, it magically bent.

When you find yourself in a hole, maybe you should stop digging.
 
BvizioN said:
I'm sorry but I don't believe you. You have shown us nothing so far. Make video of it wobbeling on the flat surface of he iPad, with your username on it and i will go an eat a crow. It shouldn't really be too hard.
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you're the first one to give me an incentive to actually post anything, now I am tempted. just to clarify, once I do that, will you also post a video with your username in the background, of you eating a crow?

actually let make things interesting; there seems to be a lot of people doubting what I am saying and asking for a video; so let's do this: once I have a dozen commitments from naysayers, that once I post a video demonstrating the problem, they will themselves post a video posting a donation to the charity of my choice, then I'll make that video. Sounds like a reasonable deal?
 
McDaddio said:
what is humorous about this?



You are claiming that you have gathered evidence for use in a class action lawsuit if you, as part of a group, decide to pursue one.

I didn't know this was your position before. Puts new light on your claim that you were checking your phone on a daily basis and somehow after the return period is up, it magically bent.

When you find yourself in a hole, maybe you should stop digging.
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I am sorry if we don't share the same sense of humor. Somebody was getting all upset about those kids bending a phone in a store, and talking how Apple had all the video footage needed to sue them, I humorously replied that that documentation could easily be used against Apple as well... now if you guys see in that comment an intent to go after the largest company in the world, then... you might have anal problem as your friend here puts it.

Now again, like monkey, you decide to completely remove the context, and the following post where I stated I was an Apple fanboy, an iOS developer, and that I really wanted the company to succeed. Why do you not quote that instead, because it would show that your argument about me preparing a lawsuit is bogus?

I am still waiting for monkey's answer about me talking about class action lawsuit "on and on for days"

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phrehdd said:
Slide an iphone 6+ under the short leg of the table to level it out.
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I already wrote the same comeback, but surprisingly nobody jumped on it in a way to explain my wobble, I was a bit disappointed
 
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