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iPhone 14 Pro I Can't Even Believe this - the Entire Camera Bump Square is Crooked

MrCheeto said:
I just posted about this very subject in my MacBook Air M1 review here. No Jobs, no soul. Forget the Wall Street leeches, the biggest problem at Apple is now the “artisté” that is so lazy they won’t even return to work.

Tim is so much of a number-crunching sack of chaff that he can’t stand up to his own employees. He’s definitely the “nice parent” that the kids run to when they want to do something they know the strict parent would disallow.

Profound. Bold. Yaaaaaaaas. This is all that matters in the CalArts agenda. You don’t have to be a good artist or designer because what is art? If they take away a solid objective base of measure they can make art whatever they want it to be. As with Marxists, and we know that Lib-Studies is Cultural Marxism, they always have to kill God because God represents a fundamental judgement of right and wrong. Without God, right and wrong become subjective and you can adjust the definition such that you can steal, kill, and enslave whoever you like and sell it as being heroic and altruistic.

In the same way, you can race-swap movies and stories as much as you like…but only in one-direction. You can be the most depraved loon and be called “fierce” so long as you’re supporting their agenda. You can have the literacy of a second-grader and be a writer for…well anybody as it seems that not a single publication has any standards for grammar. You can design something that is so flawed it is unusable, or otherwise has no efficacy in its claims, and people will defend it as being “avant-garde”. Ever heard of the wooden eggs on Kickstarter?

This is the way Apple is going. The people that work there now like to believe they designed everything that made Apple the most remarkable tech company in history; the Macintosh, the iPhone (one), the iPod. In reality, they are irreverent petulant children that have inherited a fortune. Think Arthur but without the redemption arc or Christopher Cross montage. As we see in history, many kingdoms and empires have fallen to the same hubris as entitled and detached heirs lose sight of their role and the fragility of their power.

Seeing Lizzo diddle and fondle a priceless artifact like a prize she won at Chuck-E-Cheese’s is the same, in my eyes, as watching these arrogant kids take over the empire that Jobs built. They all think they have such great ideas and when the public fires back at their mistakes they flee to their ivory towers where they sip wine together in a circle and bemoan the poor myopic commoners.

Apple is Steve Jobs and Steve Jobs is Apple. In my view, Apple died in 2009.

If you want an example of how incompetent the young devs and “artistés” are, as well as something to keep you up at night if you are obsessive, just know that they can’t even make the beach-ball cursor rotate on-axis. See for yourself.

OP: return the phone while you can.
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The crooked camera looks to be a manufacturing defect
 
Well if its fully functional then you can pride yourself that your the owner of a unique version
 
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To answer some of the other questions, I haven't taken any pics with it yet since I didn't even bother turning it on yet since seeing this issue since it's likely going right back to Apple. I would assume it's fully functional and pics would be straight - I haven't tried putting a case on it but my case is a thin semi soft clear case so it would probably form around it pretty well anyway, especially since the case isn't high precision.

I do have another one being delivered today via courier, albeit a purple one since the silvers are all sold out again and seem impossible to get for store pickup. I also still have my 13 Pro - I've been buying Apple stuff since 2004 and don't think I ever returned anything for defects until maybe 2014-2015...seems like now I can always count on some issue like this which is why I only buy connect to carrier later phones, purchased outright in full so that there aren't any hassles or complications if I need to return, and so I can keep my current phone until I'm completely happy with its replacement.

Does anyone else have this issue?
 
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Yeah it's definitely off, how bizarre. If it doesn't affect the functioning then you could keep it, kind of a fun conversation piece and collector's item. But honestly I would probably return it, it would drive me nuts lol
 
Just bought a new Chevy. Paid full price, no financing. Would you believe the clear-coat on the hood all came off in one big piece, heh. Peeled right off the thing and crumbled like a pistachio shell. Doesn’t effect the function, but I’m wondering if I should return it or keep it as a proud conversation piece. I’m laughing about the whole thing, really, heh. Those kidders.
 
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I would bet money it takes photos 1-2degrees off axis. But it would be hard to tell since it already would be difficult to get perfectly level photos.

That’s crazy, though, it came out like that 😳
 
Apple quality of recent years.

On the other hand, this site and forum is full of subjects who would blame Ive as well for this.

I would put it up for sale rather than return it, at an increased price.

At the moment it is a unique product.

With what you get you can buy another standard.
 
Back when I got an iPhone 7 Plus, the first one I got on launch day had an incorrectly milled volume down button (it was shaped like a 45 degree angle off and was touching the bezel out of the box)

Exchanged it during launch day, no questions asked. They were all perplexed thinking it was physical damage at first but they noticed no scratches or anything so they just swapped it.
 
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Shirasaki said:
A company willing to thrive must have the ability to see through money. Cause a company that last long, is not built purely on profitability. Reputation, quality, uniqueness, dominance, intellectual property, those build the foundation of a company. Once the foundation is there, money will follow.

Apple took advantage of 1980s technology boom, and outlast many other competitors such as Commodore, Atari and such. If the capital entry of building an ecosystem was not billions, someone else would’ve already challenged Apple. The tech world would’ve looked very different than it is today. Nevertheless, Apple can still last for a very long time. However, who knows what will happen in the next 10 years, and who will be the challenger.
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That's an interesting take on a factory SNAFU.

Actually it's not remotely interesting, it's an overwrought piece of prentious nonsense projecting your lunatic theories with a scatter gun.
 
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realtoropenhouse said:
To answer some of the other questions, I haven't taken any pics with it yet since I didn't even bother turning it on yet since seeing this issue since it's likely going right back to Apple. I would assume it's fully functional and pics would be straight - I haven't tried putting a case on it but my case is a thin semi soft clear case so it would probably form around it pretty well anyway, especially since the case isn't high precision.

I do have another one being delivered today via courier, albeit a purple one since the silvers are all sold out again and seem impossible to get for store pickup. I also still have my 13 Pro - I've been buying Apple stuff since 2004 and don't think I ever returned anything for defects until maybe 2014-2015...seems like now I can always count on some issue like this which is why I only buy connect to carrier later phones, purchased outright in full so that there aren't any hassles or complications if I need to return, and so I can keep my current phone until I'm completely happy with its replacement.

Does anyone else have this issue?
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I can't believe you wouldn't at least turn it on, see what happens.
 
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You have what is known as an ultra rare. Sell it as a defect. People have been known to pay decent money for janky looking iPhones.
 
That's crazy. I have to admit, when I first saw the title I thought "no way" but yeah I see it right away. Mine isn't crooked so if you like the phone I'd definitely see if Apple will swap it out. I know that's just the outside housing and it's possible the lens are correctly placed but are photos off / crooked?
 
Not that I don't believe you, but I don't see how this is remotely possible. There's not really any room for error in how these glass panels are formed..so I'm very curious. I'd also be interested in seeing a direct shot also, without the distortion from the angled shot.
 
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