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Kids are now bending iPhones in Apple Stores

Sakura Squirrel said:
How did we get from the concern a few people had that their phones bent in their pockets...

...to people going into stores and deliberately breaking phones with their hands?

What's the step in the middle?
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The step in the middle is "idiots will latch on to any excuse to do stupid things."

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Zxxv said:
calling unbox therapies videos fake. Walking into apple store and bending theirs proves its a real unit. Well you did ask :)
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What these kids did doesn't prove anything except that they're criminals.
 
scaredpoet said:
What's worse, the website is already pumping up its numbers by posting pictures of deliberately bent phones in Apple stores, not excluding them for people who genuinely own the phones and had them break through normal use, or even by sitting. We get it: you can deliberately break something.

Even so, the number stands at 23 as of this writing. I too, would've expected hundreds by now.
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That website is a farce

The owner starts by saying he's counting bend phones from Apple customers but because the numbers didn't really increase he adds 5 (FIVE) examples of bent phones in Apple shops. Not content with that he also adds the iPhone that Lewis from Unbox Therapy purposely bent.

that's 6 phones out of that list.
 
Sharpanator said:
A 6 year old kid could smash your TV LCD panel as well, whats the point in that nonsense here? You can destroy every smartphone
It looks like you need some force to do it and thats the proof its nonsense, i can push your a dent in your car as well
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-DcUASffHU
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If this is the only smart phone on the market which can bent by a 6 year old bare hands then Apple has an optics/image problem. They cannot be perceived as having the most delicate (by a wide margin) phone in the market.

This is a marketing problem that competitors are going to take advantage of. Consumers seeing bent phones will cringe
 
scaredpoet said:
What's worse, the website is already pumping up its numbers by posting pictures of deliberately bent phones in Apple stores...

...Even so, the number stands at 23 as of this writing.
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How do we even know it's 23 different phones?

Seems like a lot of wasted effort to set up website that really doesn't "prove" anything.
 
bugelrex said:
If this is the only smart phone on the market which can bent by a 6 year old bare hands then Apple has an optics/image problem. They cannot be perceived as having the most delicate (by a wide margin) phone in the market.

This is a marketing problem that competitors are going to take advantage of. Consumers seeing bent phones will cringe
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Apple Store stocks of iPhone 6 and 6 plus and the 4 weeks delivery wait on the online store tells us otherwise...
 
Video pulled. I remember being a kid and putting shaving cream and silly string on people's drive ways during Halloween and we thought that was pretty BA... Now kids are destroying thousands of dollars of merchandise and posting video's about it.

Hey, remember that one time kids thought it was cool to SWAT other kids on FPS games? LOL...

Maybe they'll learn the hard way like this kid did.

http://www.gamespot.com/forums/offtopic-discussion-314159273/15-year-old-gets-25-years-in-prison-for-swatting-31529286/
 
Kids are now bending iPhones in Apple Stores

bmt134 said:
Yeah it tells me people will buy anything with an Apple logo on it.
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It tells me that the average Joe doesn't give a toss if the fat Canadian is bending phones on YouTube nor sees an iPhone as a bending machinery
 
I have seen some of the most illogical counter arguments to this bending issue.... here is how I see it.


YES ALL PHONES CAN BEND... when applying enough pressure..
YES THE BENDING VIDEOS CANNOT BE CONSIDERED "NORMAL" USE...

However neither can crashing a car into a brick wall to test crash safety. And yet some cars rate higher than others... Yes all cars will fail a crash safety test running into a wall, if you run into it with enough speed... however... in a straight line at 45mph... some fair better than others.

Why should people disregard iPhone bending issue because it is not "normal usage"?:rolleyes:
 
In the video, these teenagers clearly thought they were performing some sort of public service. That people wanted them to do this, that's why they felt empowered.
Where did they get this idea?

They claim that Apple stated the phone wouldn't bend in use (where?) and that therefore by their logical extension it was impossible to bend in any manner and that Apple were lying.
That seems to be why they set out to prove the obvious and they genuinely thought it was the right thing to do.

It's frightening how easily people can be manipulated by the media into believing they are moral crusaders even when they perform criminal acts.
 
bugelrex said:
Consumers seeing bent phones will cringe
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I'm not so sure. The bending hysteria has kept the new iPhones in the media all week.

Consumers everywhere now know there's a sexy new iPhone available. They also know the bending scam is being dismissed as a childish prank.

For anyone still hesitant, the customary dose of Applecare+ will dispel any doubt. That's what it's there for.
 
Sakura Squirrel said:
In the video, these teenagers clearly thought they were performing some sort of public service. That people wanted them to do this, that's why they felt empowered.
Where did they get this idea?

They claim that Apple stated the phone wouldn't bend in use (where?) and that therefore by their logical extension it was impossible to bend in any manner and that Apple were lying.
That seems to be why they set out to prove the obvious and they genuinely thought it was the right thing to do.

It's frightening how easily people can be manipulated by the media into believing they are moral crusaders even when they perform criminal acts.
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People are inherently two things.
Crappy and stupid.
 
dgree03 said:
I have seen some of the most illogical counter arguments to this bending issue.... here is how I see it.





YES ALL PHONES CAN BEND... when applying enough pressure..

YES THE BENDING VIDEOS CANNOT BE CONSIDERED "NORMAL" USE...



However neither can crashing a car into a brick wall to test crash safety. And yet some cars rate higher than others... Yes all cars will fail a crash safety test running into a wall, if you run into it with enough speed... however... in a straight line at 45mph... some fair better than others.



Why should people disregard iPhone bending issue because it is not "normal usage"?:rolleyes:
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Cars are designed to in some extent survive a crash.

Phones are not designed to be bent.
 
When kids can bend these phones, it's a major issue......;)

Lmao at the kids being this gutsy
 
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