Why am I not seeing an outcry from the hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of iphone 6+ owners about this issue? Could it be that this is another case of user error and the media blowing it way out of proportion for eyeballs?
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Samsung, HTC, BlackBerry, and Others Mock 'Bendability' of Apple's iPhone 6 Plus
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...and then sat upon.
You know my daughter loves putting my 5c in her back pocket and walking around like some teenager - she's only 8.
exactly, i dont care about the million phones, i will have only one iphone 6 + , which might bend.
And who gets the most profits?
Nobody in the phone market is gonna beat Apple any time soon, that's for sure. But I'm really worried about this bending issue since I carry my iPhone in the front pocket of my regular cut jeans.
No it doesn't. Otherwise, explain to me why my 6 Plus is not bent. I keep it in the front pocket of my tight jeans quite a lot. Perfectly unbent - unless of course, Apple has me so brainwashed that I can't see the bend.
No it's because people have paid near enough £900 for a phone which should not be bending in their pockets. Face it, it's a design flaw which should really not have occurred with a brand such as Apple. Who claim to make the 'best' smartphone in the world.
I love Apple products too. I had the first iPhone, then the 3GS, then the 4s and now I have a 5s. My immediate household has 5 macs (one on loan to my mom), 3iPads, 2 Apple TVs, 3 Airport Expresses and a Time Capsule.
No one can accuse me of not being an Apple fan.
This iPhone 6+ bending thing plus the camera algorithm issue plus the release of the buggy 8.0.1 update - I mean, Apple just laid a giant egg over the past few days. Apple is deserving every bit of the ridicule they are getting over the interwebs.
Laid a giant egg.
No it's because they've been making mistake after mistake for the last month. Sure this isn't the last of it when Apple Pay is supposed to be launched next month.
My friend and wife both carry Note 2s. IMO they're crappy cheap plastic devices with a terrible OS but neither one has warped after years of use/abuse.
Have we seen any videos yet of someone putting the phone in their pocket, taking it out and it being bent? Obviously if it's happening we'll hear about people returning bent phones to Apple stores. Has that been happening?
Please. The original iPad Air was bendy. It's the reason my screen cracked spontaneously after 4 months (and the reason I'll never buy another iPad until Apple starts making them more rigid).
No it doesn't. Otherwise, explain to me why my 6 Plus is not bent. I keep it in the front pocket of my tight jeans quite a lot. Perfectly unbent - unless of course, Apple has me so brainwashed that I can't see the bend.
I don't have cancer therefor cancer does not exist.
Yes. It is absolutely user error.
By the way, which part is the user error? Putting the phone in their pockets (which we all do) or buying the 6+ in the first place?
That's something that many people forget. I had candy bar style Nokia phones that had large diagrams in their manuals about how not to hold the phone so as not to interfere with antenna functions.
No it doesn't. Because the person who buys this phone even after this kind of story breaks out knows that if their phone bends and becomes unusable, Apple will take care of it one way or another. That's what creating a successful brand is about. People trust you no matter what.
Quote from their open letter:
"Upon investigation, we were stunned to find that the formula we use to calculate how many bars of signal strength to display is totally wrong."
I assume this counts as part of the design.
Thoughts from an iPhone 6+ Owner
This whole bent iPhone 6+ fake controversy is absurd. I have the iPhone 6+ and it is awesome. Does it flex? Sure, but so does my BMW 5 Series. If one watches the "scientific" videos, the phone will bend under an absurd amount of pressure at the weakest point of the phone. Just like you can damage my BMW 5 Series if you apply an absurd amount of pressure at critical points on the door and most of the interior controls. I keep my iPhone 6+ in my front left pocket routinely and there have been no issues. Just to see how much my phone would flex, I applied pressure to it. It flexed but it did not deform permanently. I applied substantial pressure to it. The iPhone is awesome and it is expensive. I would never think of not treating it thoughtfully. The iPhone 6+, like my BMW 5 Series, will break if misused or intentionally abused. Under normal use for 6 days the phone has been awesome and exceeded my expectations.
This whole bent iPhone 6+ fake controversy is absurd. I have the iPhone 6+ and it is awesome. Does it flex? Sure, but so does my BMW 5 Series. If one watches the "scientific" videos, the phone will bend under an absurd amount of pressure at the weakest point of the phone. Just like you can damage my BMW 5 Series if you apply an absurd amount of pressure at critical points on the door and most of the interior controls. I keep my iPhone 6+ in my front left pocket routinely and there have been no issues. Just to see how much my phone would flex, I applied pressure to it. It flexed but it did not deform permanently. I applied substantial pressure to it. The iPhone is awesome and it is expensive. I would never think of not treating it thoughtfully. The iPhone 6+, like my BMW 5 Series, will break if misused or intentionally abused. Under normal use for 6 days the phone has been awesome and exceeded my expectations.
Wear and tear is normal usage too, but you don't expect companies to cover that under warranty.
What pisses me off about this the most is how it distracts from the real issues. We have a completely funked up iOS upgrade that did not even address some of the real issues in iOS 8. now everyone is focussing on phones that bend when you sit on them.
Could the fandroids please concentrate on mocking Apple for issues that actually really concern iPhone users?
Could the fandroids please concentrate on mocking Apple for issues that actually really concern iPhone users?
