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Kids are now bending iPhones in Apple Stores
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So I'm holding it wrong??
I find it fascinating
My family farm in the UK. We grow organic veg for a big national box scheme. My phone's get a lot of use but the only time I've ever smashed a screen was when my 3G fell out of the top pocket of my boiler suit when I bent down to put my boots on. Sometimes they're in cases, sometimes not. Depends which way the wind is blowing....
Are you INSANE!!!!!!!!! So if I take a test drive in a brand new car and I decide that I want to see how well the airbags work, I am within my right to crash the car to force them to deploy? Because that is what I am getting out of your dumb@$$ statement.
There is a big difference between testing the device (car) as it is intended to be used rather than destroying it just to appease your childish desires.
If you want to do that, buy the device (car) and do what you want with it. Then it is yours to do what you want, how you want.
Until then, the device (car) is the company's (dealership's) property.
Apparently you've never heard the old saying "you break it, you buy it". If the product is used in a way other than what is identified/acceptable by the manufacturer then you forfeit the ability to return/replace the product.
You have to apply over 70+ lbs of pressure to the the 6/6+ to bend these phones. I don't know what you all are doing or how you have these phone in your pockets to create over 70/90 lbs of pressure. Go to a gym and pick up a 30 pound weight. Would you want to put that 30 pounds on top of your phone, whether it be an iPhone, S4, S5, Note 3, Note 4, etc.... I am sure probably not. Now if that 30 lbs seems heavy, consider you still need to add, 40/60 more pounds of pressure to the phone to bend it. Just saying.
Apparently your parents must have sucked at raising you if this is an example of your morals.
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If you look at the kids bending it, its clearly less than 90lbs when you find the weak point. It looks like there is a pivot area which requires much less than 90lbs.
check out this video. This guy does it without breaking a sweat in less than 10 seconds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cW0u_KUz_8
Young kinds easily break things all the time. This is why there are debates on these and other forums, Apple and Android and anything else, debating whether young children should be entrusted with a smartphone.
One doesn't need to be an adult with muscles to bend aluminum. This hasn't changed for the past few years that iPhones and other phones have been made this way. The real question here is: when did it become an expectation that it should be completely okay to deliberately try to fold a device not meant to be folded, and then freak out when that causes it to break?
So it's okay then for me to take your phone and dunk it in a glass of water? I'm testing your phone's ability to resist water damage, because there's this global rumor going around that some phones might stop working if they get wet. And if it breaks, well, that's your fault for having a phone that isn't waterproof. I'd be doing nothing that makes me liable for that damage, since it's my right as a consumer to test that sort of thing, isn't it?
Probably in the multiple threads dedicated to the bend issue. This thread is discussing the more important topic of criminal damage. I think dragging this thread onto the bend path is unnecessary considering its content.
If apple claims its waterproof, then yes its reasonable to test it. If apple claims t requires 90lbs of force to bend, testing it at the store with much less than 90lbs of force should be considered "testing the manufactures claim"
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I bought a new car today. I'm going to crash it into a wall to see if the airbags deploy.
You car will also have crumble points, so yeah it will bend, though how is this relevant to the iphone that is not suppose to bend???