The kick in the gut will be when Apple delivers its earnings at the end of the year having sold double of the amount of phones as Samsung did..
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iPhone 6 Plus slightly bent after 2 days
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The kick in the gut will be when Apple delivers its earnings at the end of the year having sold double of the amount of phones as Samsung did..
note is made of polycarbonate plastic or Hard casing, the same casing that is on the hard cases that you put on the iPhone. you put it on your iPhone so it doesnt scratch or break. the Note's body is already made of that material that is iPhone case material which is the reason it doesnt bend and neither does an iPhone inside the hard case. Its been the same case since iPhone 5
So, when they design the 6s, you'd be perfectly happy if they used the exact same aluminum chassis without any structural re-enforcement? Come on. Even the people who are frantically trying to convince everyone that bendgate "isn't that bad" will at least admit that the 6 Plus needs to be handled with a little extra care compared to older designs. The ideal product would have all the same features and aesthetics, but be more durable.
I love Apple products, and I want them to be the best they can be. And part of that involves acknowledging mistakes, not sticking your head in the sand and trying to convince yourself that everything is perfect. I also want a phone that I don't have to worry about damaging with normal use, so there's no way I'm going to spend all that money on a 6 Plus as it is right now. You can be certain that Apple will make changes in response to this. We may even see polycarbonate becoming the standard.
I thought this was pretty funny.
Granted, it doesn't bend as much. The screen just shatters.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwdZzvCFhLo
Granted, it doesn't bend as much. The screen just shatters.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwdZzvCFhLo
Paranoia is a very sad condition shared by too many it seems.
Why is it so hard to actually believe people? Try it, you might like it.
Anyway, for those that are not total jerks and want more information, I spoke with an AT&T store manager regarding my bent iPhone 6. He confirmed that I was not the first to report the problem. Before directing me to an Apple store, he stated that he was very concerned about this and felt like the issue was going to explode, thereby killing their sales. He said, "Man this is about to get bad, real bad."
I am still hoping it is just a small batch with inferior metals.
Is the media blowing it up? Yes, that is what they get paid to do.
However, having had one bend in my own hands, I am simply disgusted by the whole thing.
If it is not just an isolated group of phones, the skeptics will soon have no choice but to hush.
lets believe everyone who says their phone is bent regardless if they are telling the truth or not, look up the number here , twitter and facebook, google+, google search, blogs, tumblr. I searched.
totaling around 30
after all the media attention and > 8 million iPhones delivered. 30.
that is 0.0003%
Little known fact - this is exactly how the CDC calculates the number of flu vaccines needed for any given year. They just count the number of people who post on the internet about having the flu.
Samsung is plastic
iPhone is aluminium
Care to compare two different materials??
Idiotic!!
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Hello BeHo
Member since yesterday....
What's it like to work for Samsung? Do they have good benefits? How are the hours?
People keeping phones in their pockets!! The shock, the horror! It's almost as if people are savages!!
Or y'know it's what people do with their phones, even big phones and maybe it's more the fact Apple decided to use a large piece of thin soft metal with zero internal support for their biggest ever phone.
Yet even with their plastic phones Samsung use internal support to help the phone keep it's shape, just like HTC phones do and surprise surprise they tend to keep their shape more than the 6+. You use a large thin soft metal without an internal support you are asking for trouble. Apple choose style over practicality and this is the result.
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Lol you searched the whole of social media? You're either stupid, lying or have way to much time on your hands.
Don't be so hard on yourself it's not easy being cultist like you, I'm sure the constant worship of a multinational corporation that doesn't give two ***** about you is hard.
I am member since 2005. Are you going to come out after me also ?
Seriously, Iphone 6+ is not as rugged as the previous iphone iteration. If polycarbonate magnesium alloy is better than aluminum, than Samsung has been a more rugged phone than Apple. Simple as that.
Seriously, Iphone 6+ is not as rugged as the previous iphone iteration. If polycarbonate magnesium alloy is better than aluminum, than Samsung has been a more rugged phone than Apple. Simple as that.
I have to say that my iPhone 6plus does have a slight bend in it. I can see it ever so slightly. so far it does not bother me. But I do have to be careful about putting it in my front pocket.
While I am pretty sure you are being facetious, the comparison doesn't make sense. The people with an iPhone 6+ in their hands right now are early adopters - because they either lined up on launch day or they ordered a phone at 3AM on preorder day. The percentage of people posting on the internet relative to the actual number of people with the issue is going to correlate very closely.
The issue is the signal to noise ratio is too low, most people are just posting about bendy iPhones because it is the "cool" thing to do, whether they actually have a bent iPhone or not.
With the flu most people aren't going to post about it in the first place, and the most susceptible people (Children and elderly) won't be posting about it either.
Most likely this will just blow over in a few weeks when some new controversy comes up and people will just keep putting their 6+'s into their pockets and going on with their lives.
I find it funny that this is one of the "similar threads" listed at the bottom of the page:
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1459792/
So there have been issues with the 5(S) bending, in one of the threads someone quoted either an Apple or AT&T employee (can't remember which) that said they get that problem "all the time." This was with the 5/5S, mind you. I've also seen people complaining of their iPad minis and Airs bending. There's also plenty of phones where the screen shatters when the phone is bent.
I have a 6+ coming today, so I'll see what I think. (I may have chosen the wrong screen name if I decide to switch to a 6
) I understand reason for concern here, but believe it's overblown as usual with anything Apple. I'm leaning towards common sense being able to avoid bending for most of us. I've seen people walking around with an iPhone (or otherwise) half sticking out of their back pocket and always wondered what they were thinking.
Next year, Jony has to suck it up and realise a few millimetres more will not only benefit the infrastructure, but create a far superior aesthetic, not to mention the possibility for upgrades such as batter and whatnot. As long as it doesn't gain too much weight, I'm sure we're happy to compromise on width.
Why dont you people who come on here and talk trash about a company or product we are here to enjoy and learn about together just go back to your mamma's basement and your jobs at McDonalds
Hello fmcarv
I'm member since yesterday because I want(ed) to buy the 6+ but found the link to this thread on a news site that dealed with the bend issue.
You want a bent phone for the sake of aluminum ? That's idiotic!!
No need to use plastic, just make a thicker frame, add a internal structure, and the aluminum phone will be solid as a rock.
Or use stainless or titan.
All previous 4/5/s iphones had no plastic.
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Hello fmcarv
I'm member since yesterday because I want(ed) to buy the 6+ but found the link to this thread on a news site that dealed with the bend issue.
You want a bent phone for the sake of aluminum ? That's idiotic!!
No need to use plastic, just make a thicker frame, add a internal structure, and the aluminum phone will be solid as a rock.
Or use stainless or titan.
All previous 4/5/s iphones had no plastic.
You're way to vested in this conversation to just be a shopper looking for info on a potential purchase. You have an agenda. No one wants bent phones.
Whatever your agenda is. You need to be a little more natural and discreet about it. It really comes off as an agenda. Or maybe you just have a lot of free time to troll forums.
This. Everyone needs to shut up about telling people it's their fault putting the phones in their pockets. If you can't put the phone in your pocket, you've failed in designing the product. If you can't use the product without a case, you've failed in designing the product.
Everyone watch this video and just zip your mouths already (Moto X like a champ):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IROcoJeVfSI&list=UUsTcErHg8oDvUnTzoqsYeNw
just because yours doesn't bend means nothing!
First of all if any of you have ever had the opportunity to poor metal into a mold, then you would know that every batch is not the same & it is up to QC (quality control) to check each batch of metal for consistency. However, if they fail to do there job properly then the person pouring the metal into the mold, just keeps pouring! And this is why you may have some that bend & some that don't! Soo, because yours "Does not bend" may just mean that QC did their jobs on that batch. But may have failed on a batch that produced a 100 thousand! Just don't assume that others arent being forthcoming because it didn't happen to yours!
First of all if any of you have ever had the opportunity to poor metal into a mold, then you would know that every batch is not the same & it is up to QC (quality control) to check each batch of metal for consistency. However, if they fail to do there job properly then the person pouring the metal into the mold, just keeps pouring! And this is why you may have some that bend & some that don't! Soo, because yours "Does not bend" may just mean that QC did their jobs on that batch. But may have failed on a batch that produced a 100 thousand! Just don't assume that others arent being forthcoming because it didn't happen to yours!
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