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iPhone XS and XS Max Survive Liquid Dunk, but Shatter Immediately in Drop Test

So much for re-positioning steel as the high-end metal. The XR aluminum is looking better all the time.
 
freezelighter said:
Slippery and breakable.
I wish the next few years will go fast, because then we will have unbreakable phones made of liquid metal and new synth materials and it will be a standard.
Everybody will remember all this Apple care+ stuff as a dark medieval age of first smartphones.
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You realise liquid metal is a thing now right?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_metal

it's not gonna solve your Apple wet dreams.
 
Buy insurance. (Costs me $1 per week). Be done with it.

I also put my phone in a case and it's survived a multitude of abuse, but frankly, I don't care as I've paid for that insurance. If it breaks (and it hasn't in over a year of use), I just call up and get a replacement.
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tito2020 said:
My cheap 200 samsung phone fell 10 feet offa ladder still kicking
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I dropped a lego brick from the second floor of my house when I was a kid. It still works and my son still plays with it today.

Chalk and cheese buddy....
 
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The breaking glass is not the problem here, the problem is the repair price. There is no Apple Care available to buy in my country, so you have to buy 3rd party insurance. The 3rd party insurance for Max costs around $300-400. So you with the insurance you are at $2000. Designing the product the way it is almost unrepairable is not eco nor customer friendly. I have the money for Xs, but I changed my mind and I will rather build my first hackintosh. I don't think it's impossible to build a well repairable thin phone with glass back (look at Samsung repair price of the back glass)

My iPhone 6s is fine. I was thinking about how I use my Apple devices – Macbook Pro / iPad / iPhone and I have to say, I spend like 60% of time on my MBP, 25-30% on my iPad and only 10-15% on my iPhone. I'm a developer (webapps) and I recently got interested in developing games. My base MBP 15" 2015 can't really handle working with 3d apps (Blender / Unity) well, so I will treat myself with a nice hackintosh (6-core i7 or maybe 8-core i7 9th gen intel, GTX 1070 Ti or maybe 2070, 32GB ram and a lot of storage) for a little more than the price of the XS. I might be buying XS / XR after the X-mas, if I had some extra cash, but I don't really want to.

I love Apple ecosystem, I like iPhone, but $2000 is just too much.
 
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What I don't get is why the XS Max repairs cost more. It's exactly the same amount of work and I'm sure the cost difference of the parts is negligible.
 
Ifti said:
Which is why I always buy AppleCare+
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which is exactly what apple wants people to do to make more money
[doublepost=1537788848][/doublepost]Lets face it apple. The 6 and on design is fragile. There no ways around you. You made the frame smaller and the glass stick out on all edges. While its curved theres less chance of breaking but its still very exposed.
The only way apple will have actually better built and less fragile phones is to return the iPhone 4/5 style sandwich frame with the glass complely flush with the sides of the frame so every time you drop one the frame takes the abuse. Not the glass.
I honestly think apple is making a $$$$ of money on these broken screens so they dont care if the phone is fragile or not. Also the increasing cost of AppleCare. They are making so much damn money on breaks and AppleCare its not even funny. This design just wont make a phone actually withstand drops.
 
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FilipeTeixeira said:
I don't get it. A company which sells insurance for iPhones and so on, "tested" a device to prove that it breaks easily, meaning that probably you should insure it?
Isn't this a bit like when tobacco companies used to claim that smoking was good for your health, or am I missing something here?
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This was my thought exactly. Also, who drops a phone from 6 feet? I've dropped my phone twice, and both times were coming out of my pocket at about 2-3 feet. Both times it didn't shatter, just a few small nicks in the frame.
 
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haruhiko said:
AppleCare+ is a very expensive type of insurance. The cost of AppleCare for a few generations of iPhones will easily get you a new iPhone.
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The point of insurance is to never use it, it's to give you peace of mind if something does happen.
 
sorry, but this really annoys me. why spend thousands of dollars and then trash the phone? I bet half of these tests are exaggerated, I mean since when excessive pressure on a screen of course its going to damage.
 
x-evil-x said:
which is exactly what apple wants people to do to make more money
[doublepost=1537788848][/doublepost]Lets face it apple. The 6 and on design is fragile. There no ways around you. You made the frame smaller and the glass stick out on all edges. While its curved theres less chance of breaking but its still very exposed.
The only way apple will have actually better built and less fragile phones is to return the iPhone 4/5 style sandwich frame with the glass complely flush with the sides of the frame so every time you drop one the frame takes the abuse. Not the glass.
I honestly think apple is making a $$$$ of money on these broken screens so they dont care if the phone is fragile or not. Also the increasing cost of AppleCare. They are making so much damn money on breaks and AppleCare its not even funny. This design just wont make a phone actually withstand drops.
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People broke 4/5 style phones too, people break things, that is why there is insurance.
 
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beanbaguk said:
Buy insurance. (Costs me $1 per week). Be done with it.

I also put my phone in a case and it's survived a multitude of abuse, but frankly, I don't care as I've paid for that insurance. If it breaks (and it hasn't in over a year of use), I just call up and get a replacement.
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I dropped a lego brick from the second floor of my house when I was a kid. It still works and my son still plays with it today.

Chalk and cheese buddy....
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$1 per week insurance for my Max? Please link this.
 
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I think that if a phone is this fragile, it should at least be super affordable to repair. I understand that the screen has to be made of glass, but the back is a different story. Oh, yes, it has NFC and wireless charging... which no one uses. So I still find it kind of unnecessary.

Am I the only one who liked the iPhone 5C's one-piece plastic back? It looked cool, didn't have strips, the camera didn't stick out, and it was durable. I know that Apple made plastic un-cool, but they really shouldn't have. The black/white plastic MacBook was also pretty neat looking. And plastic is more durable than glass.

It's kind of a shame that Apple is so hung up on this "must be the highest of the high-end" that they totally avoid doing things that could work really well.
 
Obviously, Apple want to squeeze every money out of all of us by all means. This is a business and they are not doing for charity work.

Think before you buy - check if you can afford by any means, i know none of us want to pay higher fee but nobody force you to do so, if apple set this price there is nothing we can do.

If you drop it - too bad, deal with it.
If you got the case and drop it - the screen is crack - too bad deal with it.

If you got the case and drop it no crack - good for you
If you got a apple care - good for you.
If you are really careful without apple care and case - good for you
 
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