Ask them for their phone first, see them even bother to try to attempt it then.
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Kids are now bending iPhones in Apple Stores
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Ask them for their phone first, see them even bother to try to attempt it then.
This is exactly the kind of mentality that has surrounded bendgate from the outset, and it's exactly why videos of kids bending iPhones exist.
The phone is bendable. Period. It does not defy the law of physics. It's a long semi hollow piece of aluminum and flexible glass. IT'S BENDABLE. People need to accept this and stop wishing it's not true and stop calling videos fake and stop creating the challenge to prove it by saying "oh well that doesn't prove it bends easily". You are inciting people to keep making videos because you are perpetuating the question.
Apple is guilty of the same thing. Once again, instead of admitting a design shortcoming, and immediately issuing an advisory on handling, they post a video touting non-bendability. This is basically asking all 12 year olds with vandalism tendencies and all YouTube entrepreneurs to continue to bending phones.
Remember, its all about marketing and optics. Samsung could easy run a prime time add showing an iphone being bent easily compared to the note 4. Its doesn't matter if its a stupid test (Americans will not be thinking about the validity of the test), its looks horrid but entertaining at the same time.
I can bend most thin smartphones of 2014, no problem. Just give it to me and i bend it for you if you want.
Kids are now bending iPhones in Apple Stores
Didn't know people bought phones according to their bending capacity.
In fact until now nobody cared much about this. Even though there's countless forum posts on both iPhones and Samsung phones that have been bent for some reason or another but mainly because people sit on them.
You say this looks horrible...still Apple is selling these like hot cakes. Any stock that appears in any shop is quickly snapped up, Internet orders have 4 week delivery estimates.
the truth is the competition panicked after the keynote. Apple is out to get their share of the phablets and Apple usually succeeds in that.
Nothing better than a smear campaign.
Oddly enough 10M phones sold in the first wave of releases in North America and part of Europe and only a handful of cases of bent phones appear.
Smells fishy!!
Didn't know people bought phones according to their bending capacity.
In fact until now nobody cared much about this. Even though there's countless forum posts on both iPhones and Samsung phones that have been bent for some reason or another but mainly because people sit on them.
You say this looks horrible...still Apple is selling these like hot cakes. Any stock that appears in any shop is quickly snapped up, Internet orders have 4 week delivery estimates.
the truth is the competition panicked after the keynote. Apple is out to get their share of the phablets and Apple usually succeeds in that.
Nothing better than a smear campaign.
Oddly enough 10M phones sold in the first wave of releases in North America and part of Europe and only a handful of cases of bent phones appear.
Smells fishy!!
Actually, Apple has never said the phones aren't bendable. In fact they pretty much said they bend them on regular basis, as part of testing.
"The bottom line is that if you use enough force to bend an iPhone, or any phone, it's going to deform," (Apple Senior VP of hardware engineering Dan] Riccio says.
What they also said was that with normal use, an iPhone shouldn't bend.
I think you can agree that this is not "normal use:"
That's generally not how I've used any cell phone I've ever owned, Apple branded or not, ever. How do YOU use your cell phone?
Your argument is like saying that 12 year olds should be expected to dump iPhones into glasses of water, simply because Apple states that with normal use, an iPhone shouldn't succumb to moisture damage.
Telling people to use their phones normally and not bend them on purpose is as far from encouraging vandalism as anyone can get.
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The videos are fake in that they suggest that the iPhone is flawed somehow because it can be bent. But since any phone of similar type can be bent, they videos falsely suggest there is some big scandal here when there is not.
Exactly, it's pathetic how much people are caping for Apple.
I have a thin MacBook air. Should it bend easily? No. Does it? No.
A mobile phone needs to have some amount of durability. It has been proven time and time again via video proof that the plus is on the weak side. I can understand babying a new new Phone so the screen wont get scratched.:but now I have to also make sure it doesn't get bent. Lol I never had to consider that before...
Why do so many people insist on comparing this issue to cars? It's absurd and meaningless.
Surprise. If you apply enough pressure to a Macbook Air, it'll bend. And I'll bet you about $1,000 (or $1799 if you wanna go with the top end model), that if you walk into an Apple Store and apply as much "bending" force to it as you do an iPhone 6 or 6 Plus, it'll do the exact same thing.
The solution? Don't forcefully or deliberately bend the products people paid good money for, and exercise common sense to avoid accidental damage, too.
Maybe something for the next olympics? IPhone bending. Or you can first bend it and then throw it.
I think if they kicked the door of a Bentley, their legs would bend
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The phones are not that fragile. I wish people would stop bending the truth
http://www.gsmarena.com/first_samsung_galaxy_note_4_units_plagued_by_build_issues-news-9786.php
Sgap has started.. wonder if Apple will make adverts about no gaps between screen and casing next.
Sgap has started.. wonder if Apple will make adverts about no gaps between screen and casing next.
Thanks. I wanted the original though to see these douche bags channel haha. It wouldn't load anything on my iPad though.
