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Let's use science to figure out how bendable the iPhone 6 Plus is!
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Yeah, boy; they are in some deep doo-doo dropping $3.00 like that.
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We'd better check the one-year chart:
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What about Samsung? Surely they must be doing well given Apple's woes..
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Yeah, poor Apple... Suffering huge.
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First, 100lbs of weight does not equal 100lbs of force.
Second, I weigh 155lbs. If I sit down, not all of my weight is concentrated on the area occupied by one pocket. At least half is on the "other cheek", so to speak. So, at most, 77.5 lbs of weight is resting on the phone.
However, mass does not equal force. 100lbs of weight resting on you might hurt, 100lbs of weight propelled at you could kill you.
The most sensitive thing in all of this is if the consumer has to feel like the average person can have this happen to them.
I think it shows that its not a case of the phone bending super easy.
Its a way to show that you really have to still put a lot of force (which most of us aren't doing to any phone) and it shows that it takes more than a minor accident or overlooked accident to really mess it up.
Out side of that it doesn't matter, but that is what the difficult question being raised was.
No, what's stupid is the media reporting as "fact" and "news" what a few people posted on Macrumors' forums. That's not journalism. That's story telling (and probably paid for by Samsung).
Yes, it is stupid....
Stupid that people are trashing phones to create the insanity you stated above. The web is truly a POS....
bashing just sucks!Is the iPhone+ also the reason google is down 2.3% and the dow is off nearly 250 points?
Apple released a statement that says that NINE customers have complained that their iPhone has been affected. NINE out of over 10,000,000 phones sold.
Let's do MATH!!! (Math is fun, isn't it??)
Let's assume there hasn't been a single phone sold since the weekend...
9/10,000,000 = 0.0000009 = 0.00009%
All this media attention over 0.00009%. WTF??
Let's assume that Apple has, in fact, sold a few more phones over the last week four days. Let's say that it's less than the 10,000,000 sold on the first weekend... I'm going to say they only sold 1,000,000 devices a day (probably they sold more, but, this is a safe number).
In that case, we should see an extra 4 phones affected. It's about 1 phone in 1,000,000 that will bend. But, let's keep the same 9 phones and see the percentage of damaged phones after another 4 days of selling:
9/14,000,000 = 0.000000642857143 = 0.0000643%
Let's compare this to other life occurrences:
Death rate: 807.3 deaths per 100,000 population. That's 0.8073% chance YOU will die this year.
I couldn't quickly find it, but, I'd bet that the odds of you smashing your CAR this year would be substantially higher than the odds of you bending your iPhone.
This is a non-issue.
Let's do MATH!!! (Math is fun, isn't it??)
Let's assume there hasn't been a single phone sold since the weekend...
9/10,000,000 = 0.0000009 = 0.00009%
All this media attention over 0.00009%. WTF??
Let's assume that Apple has, in fact, sold a few more phones over the last week four days. Let's say that it's less than the 10,000,000 sold on the first weekend... I'm going to say they only sold 1,000,000 devices a day (probably they sold more, but, this is a safe number).
In that case, we should see an extra 4 phones affected. It's about 1 phone in 1,000,000 that will bend. But, let's keep the same 9 phones and see the percentage of damaged phones after another 4 days of selling:
9/14,000,000 = 0.000000642857143 = 0.0000643%
Let's compare this to other life occurrences:
Death rate: 807.3 deaths per 100,000 population. That's 0.8073% chance YOU will die this year.
I couldn't quickly find it, but, I'd bet that the odds of you smashing your CAR this year would be substantially higher than the odds of you bending your iPhone.
This is a non-issue.
yes its dragging down the whole market
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Yeah, boy; they are in some deep doo-doo dropping $3.00 like that.
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We'd better check the one-year chart:
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What about Samsung? Surely they must be doing well given Apple's woes..
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Yeah, poor Apple... Suffering huge.
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First, 100lbs of weight does not equal 100lbs of force.
Second, I weigh 155lbs. If I sit down, not all of my weight is concentrated on the area occupied by one pocket. At least half is on the "other cheek", so to speak. So, at most, 77.5 lbs of weight is resting on the phone.
However, mass does not equal force. 100lbs of weight resting on you might hurt, 100lbs of weight propelled at you could kill you.
the $3 drop equates to $3 Billion dollar loss for apple
...Which happens and corrects itself pretty much monthly.
Down $5.00 on Sep 3, up $3.00 on Sep 10.. Down $3.00 on July 31st as well... Anyone panic then?