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Kids are now bending iPhones in Apple Stores
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"Bendguy" tapered with his "new" iPhone and removed the reinforcement plates....
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They already did. Have u missed this:
https://www.macrumors.com/2014/09/25/apple-responds-to-bending-issues/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7N0EC9AK72w&list=UUFDr3x0sl_EzJ_m3uzDEUpQ
Laughed when he said "Apple, if you want to sort this out simply inbox me" - yeah because this company contacts through youtube.
To be honest, I doubt Apple will do anything, it's just wear and tear (a little extreme maybe), but a company who puts their products out on display for hundreds of people to use every day can only expect some damage to happen to them.
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Yeah, exactly, force divided by area. Consumer reports said absolutely nothing about the area, and it frankly doesn't really matter here. You can probably generate an excess of 10ksi by pressing on the back of the phone with a sharp needle. That won't cause it to bend (though it may puncture).
For the bending, what matters is the point about which you are trying to bend, and where the force is applied. The phone does not appear to be able to handle much torque about the volume buttons
I refuse to watch the video. Not giving those morons any more views. They need to be charged with vandalism.
He modified the S5 to make it charge wirelessly and compromised the waterproofing. He states this at the very beginning.
That has more to do with torque than pressure. You can treat a finger as a point force, and when applied to the end a fulcrum, you may generate more torque than the phone can handle at that point. Thus a "pound" measurement is pretty useless -- where you apply the force makes a big difference.
The important point to consider is that the laboratory tests do not account for all possible scenarios. The testing CR showed basically amounts to a point force being applied to the direct center of the device while being supported at the two ends -- a scenario in which the phone is apparently quite strong. Where it falters is when the force and fulcrum aren't centered. Rotating about the volume buttons with the force closer to that edge seems to stress that side of the phone beyond its limits. It is plausible that someone carrying the phone in moderately tight jeans can hit a table or something at a weak spot and bend the phone.
What CR should try doing is supporting the phone in the same way, but instead applying the force closer to the volume buttons. My bet is the phone will bend with much less force from the machine
Why bother when they can just pick it up and bend it with their hands. Why must they create s contraption when one is not needed.
Now I don't know where you could have gotten the idea that I'm the one in the video, because I'm not. I don't look or sound like either of the two in the video, nor do I have the same name as either of them. Here is my response video: http://youtu.be/FUTLL7Uoaek
No he doesn't...
He was defending the honor of his Youtube crush Unboxed Therapy or whatever the channel.
As my old Scottish friends would say: "plonkers"
