Where's my logic? I extrapolated (look through my post history to see all the numbers) the 160 reports that have surfaced so far. I then increased this TENFOLD, and did the math. It's also not only the 6+, there are several reports of people bending their 6 too.
It's a thin phone...it's going to bend if you put enough pressure on it. And I don't think my phone is immune from bending. It obviously is happening, but the phones don't bend themselves, and based on the reports that we're seeing, it's happening at a significantly lower rate than typical screen shatters, so is it really worth getting all worked up over as a 'major issue?' So far, I don't think so. We're talking about, at most 1,500 bent phones out of 40 million at this point. Is 1500 bent phones a lot? Sure, as a pure number...as a percentage of the total sold? It's barely a blip.
People often have problems when large numbers are involved and anecdotal evidence is not proof of a design flaw. If we even go to huge numbers, and say that there's actually 25,000 bent phones as of right now, that would still only be 0.06% of all phones sold so far. If it's only the Plus and let's up the numbers further, to 50,000 bent phones and only 10 million pluses sold...that's still only 0.5%, and there's no way there have been 50,000 bent pluses so far.
I have no doubt if I fall and pin my phone against a table and put my body weight on the lever that the phone will bend. I also know a lot of other phones that would bend under those circumstances too.
If stats come out that show that a significant percentage of phones are bending (approaching even 1-2%, which is still less likely than shattering your screen), then I'll admit that Apple needs to do something. Keep in mind that 2% of all iPhones expected to be sold this year would have over 1 MILLION bent phones. (and still, 98% of users would have no bend). However, I've seen little evidence of this being the case. I'm simply evaluating what minimal data we have here.
It's a thin phone...it's going to bend if you put enough pressure on it. And I don't think my phone is immune from bending. It obviously is happening, but the phones don't bend themselves, and based on the reports that we're seeing, it's happening at a significantly lower rate than typical screen shatters, so is it really worth getting all worked up over as a 'major issue?' So far, I don't think so. We're talking about, at most 1,500 bent phones out of 40 million at this point. Is 1500 bent phones a lot? Sure, as a pure number...as a percentage of the total sold? It's barely a blip.
People often have problems when large numbers are involved and anecdotal evidence is not proof of a design flaw. If we even go to huge numbers, and say that there's actually 25,000 bent phones as of right now, that would still only be 0.06% of all phones sold so far. If it's only the Plus and let's up the numbers further, to 50,000 bent phones and only 10 million pluses sold...that's still only 0.5%, and there's no way there have been 50,000 bent pluses so far.
I have no doubt if I fall and pin my phone against a table and put my body weight on the lever that the phone will bend. I also know a lot of other phones that would bend under those circumstances too.
If stats come out that show that a significant percentage of phones are bending (approaching even 1-2%, which is still less likely than shattering your screen), then I'll admit that Apple needs to do something. Keep in mind that 2% of all iPhones expected to be sold this year would have over 1 MILLION bent phones. (and still, 98% of users would have no bend). However, I've seen little evidence of this being the case. I'm simply evaluating what minimal data we have here.
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