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iPad Pro: How Apple Intends to Avoid Another 'Bendgate' Controversy
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This is going to look really interesting when the YouTube teardown videos start popping up. 👀
I just don't think you can call that "normal commuting with a bag" with a straight face. If you've ruined 2 separate iPads this way then either something decidedly not-normal happened to your bags when you aren't looking, or you have a drastically different idea of a "normal commute" than I do.
Of course that was influencer crap, but the problem was still real outside of that. The product being bent before even using it is indefensible.
Certain keys on my MacBook Pro 2016 did have issues over time . Currently 3 keys don’t register clicks as easy .
This is an improvement. Their normal response would be to never acknowledge the issue or announce that you are holding it wrong. 
Indeed. The butteryfly keyboards were pretty terrible (although I have to admit to defending them at first). When the issues became more widespread I gave mine a blast of canned air, and sold that MacBook Pro to the highest bidder.
My iPhone 4 would drop calls without the bumper that Apple gave everyone for free (after half admitting there was a problem with how they'd constructed the antenna), and yes, my partners iPhone 6 Plus and 2018 iPad Pros did, as it did for a portion of other users, indeed bend.
Being told to ignore the warning signs of a fauly product sounds like pretty bad advice to me.
Anyone with a functional brain can realize that iPads can be subjected to strong forces especially if they are carried in backpacks or how they're stored/carried.
These are not the same forces applied when handling the device. Structural engineers see all this and adjust adequately - at least we hope *cough* 2018 iPad Pros *cough*.
When is a controversy not a controversy? When techie bruhs with inexhaustible funds deliberately break their devices (and film themselves doing so) to insist to others there is some kind of quality issue and that convinces said others to believe it's not only real, but they can see it, too.
There are very few companies that get a pass from a large group of users for known issues and/or design choices. The 2016 MacBook Pro is a great example of that. Fortunately Apple was eventually forced to redesign that pile, and we now have the best laptops on the market.
The new iPad Pros being so thin is great for only one thing - headlines. Something new and flashy that can cover up the fact that it's still just an iPad OS device with an even more overpowered hardware. From a usability perspective, the thinness means that we did not get any battery life increase despite more efficient hardware, and we have to be more mindful in how we carry and use the device.
The new iPad Pros being so thin is great for only one thing - headlines. Something new and flashy that can cover up the fact that it's still just an iPad OS device with an even more overpowered hardware. From a usability perspective, the thinness means that we did not get any battery life increase despite more efficient hardware, and we have to be more mindful in how we carry and use the device.
We don’t put our iPads in our back pockets like our iPhones 📱 so the bending issue shouldn’t be a problem
I am planning to use iPad Pros instead of wood for my decking… its good that they have reinforced it, just need to put in that bulk order…
The great thing about using ipad Pro for deking is that they can be turned on for heating in the winter..
😜😀
The great thing about using ipad Pro for deking is that they can be turned on for heating in the winter..
😜😀
One of our IPP 12.9 1st gens got bent when a child pried it out of its case. I've also seen them bent because kids sat on them when they got left on the sofa.
No problems at all with the smaller iPads and the non home button iPad Pros.
No problems at all with the smaller iPads and the non home button iPad Pros.
This is where most people store them, and the problem they encounter without additional precautions. When I used to carry an iPad around I always used to have a large hardcover notebook in my bag right next to it, and the iPad was in a pretty robust case.
At what point did the youtubing world determine that we needed bend and drop tests for every single new personal electronic device that comes out?
While Jerry-style abuse is ridiculously extreme, it is notable that Samsung have been able to build an equally thin tablet that he couldn't bend like an iPad. The problems over the years have mainly been due to Apple's failure to bother to reinforce the weak areas.
In the past, I’ve been rather OCD when taking care of my Apple gear. For some reason I got a little lazy on the M2. I gave my GF my M1 when she was visiting from Italy in December, and I picked up the M2. I really wanted to wait for the M4, but we needed to make a move while she was here.
I didn’t order the keyboard or pencil because I was hopeful the M4 accessories may be backward compatible to the M2. During that five months, I’ve dropped and banged my M2 more times than any other Apple device I’ve owned.
One drop was on porcelain tile where it hit the corner and put a small dent in the frame near the power button. To bend the iPad, you would really have to go out of your way in my view. Didn’t affect any performance at all, so I’m quite impressed with the durability when I’m not being careful. This is what keeps me in the Apple camp. Apple builds a pretty darn decent piece of hardware, despite the never ending iOS bugs.
If I could swing it, I would also have the Surface 10 Pro for Business. Yeah I know, but I still prefer Microsoft Office and the ability to update my non-apple world toys i.e. police scanners, radios, dash cams, and business document scanner, etc. 😊
I didn’t order the keyboard or pencil because I was hopeful the M4 accessories may be backward compatible to the M2. During that five months, I’ve dropped and banged my M2 more times than any other Apple device I’ve owned.
One drop was on porcelain tile where it hit the corner and put a small dent in the frame near the power button. To bend the iPad, you would really have to go out of your way in my view. Didn’t affect any performance at all, so I’m quite impressed with the durability when I’m not being careful. This is what keeps me in the Apple camp. Apple builds a pretty darn decent piece of hardware, despite the never ending iOS bugs.
If I could swing it, I would also have the Surface 10 Pro for Business. Yeah I know, but I still prefer Microsoft Office and the ability to update my non-apple world toys i.e. police scanners, radios, dash cams, and business document scanner, etc. 😊
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It's such a waste too. They destroy equipment by doing things no regular consumer would do which proves nothing. So it wastes that equipment and ends up becoming e-waste all while at the same time stirring up people who lack common sense.
I would expect that, for someone trying to obtain and grow a subscriber base (on YouTube or elsewhere), they could obtain an iPad and the necessary equipment for measuring load over time, and then see precisely how much effort is required to permanently deform an iPad. But, as of yet, no one knows what “normal and predictable daily usage” is. Then, when someone says, “It bent in my bag”, there would be an understanding of how much pressure their iPad was under, even if they said it was in a bag filled with pillows that was held aloft by a helium filled balloon the entire time.
If it’s bent then at some point it was under “x” amount of pressure.I remember reading that the prop department in Star Trek TNG had thought they had designed the PADD’s such that nothing like that would see widespread use anytime soon. This iPad isn’t a prop, is actually functional and likely thinner than what they were using on TNG
Yup, it’s not a full cowl, like Batman’s, there will be a little baby cowling in there.