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Some iPhone 6 Plus Owners Accidentally Bending Their iPhones in Pockets
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I understand that folks can be cynical, but the attitudes in this thread are cruel. There are humans on the other side of the screen, and we are not all idiots or liars.
Even though I don't appreciate being treated like a "troll" that must be faking my bent iPhone, I will still provide more details.
I was able to bend mine back, and it's really not very noticeable. In fact, it was so easy to bend back into shape that i now feel even worse about the situation. If you try to bend the phone in half, you may not fully understand the issue. However, if you apply uneven pressure that twists the phone, then you will really see the problem. As I stated in my other post, I was removing my phone from a case, and it was the twisting motion that did it.
Let's just hope it was only one batch of bad metal.
Even though I don't appreciate being treated like a "troll" that must be faking my bent iPhone, I will still provide more details.
I was able to bend mine back, and it's really not very noticeable. In fact, it was so easy to bend back into shape that i now feel even worse about the situation. If you try to bend the phone in half, you may not fully understand the issue. However, if you apply uneven pressure that twists the phone, then you will really see the problem. As I stated in my other post, I was removing my phone from a case, and it was the twisting motion that did it.
Let's just hope it was only one batch of bad metal.
I specifically said 'back' pocket 'whilst' sitting down. So, in effect, sitting on your phone. If the phones are bending in the front pockets whilst sitting down then that's just a terrible phone design.
*edit - or maybe these ultra skinny jeans that are coming back are the cause? lol
Yeah, like: phones with thinner aluminum shells that dent (iPhone 1), phones with cracking plastic (iPhone 3g/s), phones with weird antenna issues (iPhone 4), and phones with bunk batteries (iPhone 5). Cool story, bro.
So it wasn't thinner and didn't have a protruding camera lens until after you ordered it?
And phones have been bending for as long as people have been stupid enough to sit on them and do lord knows what else to them. Just as that guys post from earlier demonstrated. There was a bent iPhone 4 in it.
Guess what, my 4S is 3 years old and it isn't remotely bent. You know why? I looked after it. Whats so hard to grasp about that?
A 128gb iPhone 6+ costs a lot of money. You'd have to be bloody stupid to just toss it into a pocket completely unprotected, and then sit on it.
Oh please. Phones of yesteryear were far more substantial than they are now and they were never really babied like people do with their iPhones.
Face it. These phones have been made as thin as they thought they could get away with.
Apple have taken things too far. They’ve even changed their marketing to emphasise ’thinness' and you guys have lapped it up.
My phone is 7mm thin.
Yeah my wood is 5” short.
WTF??
No, your phone is 7mm thick and your manhood is 5” long.
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so users will have to be "more"" careful.. users are looking more thin and light, but then go all narly when they crack something.
Ya, good luck..
I'm definitely not trolling. I've got the 4S still in use as I'm waiting for the glass screen protection for the 6. So I've watched in the last days how it is positioning in my pockets.
And there were several occasions when the phone was perpendicular to my limb, only by gravity. Don't know how this works with a 6+
Maybe look at it from another point of view, as I said before I'm in engineering cars
Imagine you buy a new car. You come with your family, pick it up at the dealer for a very high price, higher than other comparable cars on the market. You therefore expect it to work even better than other cars...
You drive home and put the car in the garage, when everybody gets out, you notice that the springs have pushed your car against the ceiling.
And now people are telling you that you cannot use it the way you used your cars before, because it's not a car, it's a cruck, a mixture between car and truck because everyone seems to have wanted higher cars.
And that you're stupid because you expected it to fit in your garage, that you should park it in your garden...
You see how ridiculous this is getting?
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Predictable
Not an Apple owner myself but always admired their engineering and customer understanding. The bend seems to be around the buttons which is predictable. Putting a hole in anything weakens it as less material around and it concentrates any stress. They could have thickened the aluminium in this area, so this was avoidable.
It also strikes me that this is something someone could have pointed out in Apple or even experienced, but shouted down and told people will not se the phone like that where they most obviously do.
More beta testing with real people helps. Nothing in IPhone 6 no one else doesn't already have so no secrets to competitors. Maybe the are scared people will stop buying 5 if 6 seen with beta testers.
Not an Apple owner myself but always admired their engineering and customer understanding. The bend seems to be around the buttons which is predictable. Putting a hole in anything weakens it as less material around and it concentrates any stress. They could have thickened the aluminium in this area, so this was avoidable.
It also strikes me that this is something someone could have pointed out in Apple or even experienced, but shouted down and told people will not se the phone like that where they most obviously do.
More beta testing with real people helps. Nothing in IPhone 6 no one else doesn't already have so no secrets to competitors. Maybe the are scared people will stop buying 5 if 6 seen with beta testers.
There are some complains from iPhone 6 owners that their iPhone 6 got bend inside their pocket. This is seriously unbelievable. People have lot of trust on Apple.
Some iPhone 6 Plus Owners Accidentally Bending Their iPhones in Pockets
I'm also an engineer. Try a more realistic story. You drive an SUV.
You have a deeply pitched driveway hill from the main road. You also drive in snow a lot.
You buy an expensive sporty (non SUV) Corvette or Ferrari. Now you find that your low front scoop/ bumper bottoms out up your driveway or your low road clearance prevents you from driving in high snow.
Is that the expensive car's fault? Or did you not think things through correctly?
Having 1-3 report a bending problem out of 10 million is not a problem any car company would respond too. They'd say you need the all terrain package- a tough rigid case by analogy.
I'm also an engineer. Try a more realistic story. You drive an SUV.
You have a deeply pitched driveway hill from the main road. You also drive in snow a lot.
You buy an expensive sporty (non SUV) Corvette or Ferrari. Now you find that your low front scoop/ bumper bottoms out up your driveway or your low road clearance prevents you from driving in high snow.
Is that the expensive car's fault? Or did you not think things through correctly?
Having 1-3 report a bending problem out of 10 million is not a problem any car company would respond too. They'd say you need the all terrain package- a tough rigid case by analogy.
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they have said no such thing. And why? because after a few months or close to a year people would just bend their iPhones and go in for a new one. This is a nightmare for apple if they said they'd replace because youtube is full of videos on how to do it.
No, the other one is better.
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Im not sure whether I think they deserve it or not. But really they should have made it better.
Don't think that this is quite comparable. A Ferrari is for a complete different purpose than a SUV. Everyone knows that and it is also obvious.
But if I develop only 2 different car variants and want them to be suitable for a lot of people, than I have to assure that these also work for all thinkable or at least most thinkable occasions. In this comparison it would have to include snow.
Otherwise I cannot whine when only a special group is buying my products, like race drivers. But then I've made a product tailored to their desires.
Imagine the car is too high for a downtown parking garage an now I'm telling you to leave the car at home, take the bus or whatever, because it was not made to go to a parking garage downtown...
It's only purpose is to drive on free roads, have a shiny outer appearance and some find leather inside, great gps and whatsoever.
Sorry, but being carried in a jeans pocket is one of the key purposes of a phone. Then the goal from Apple was completely wrong by offering only two choices, 6 and 6 plus.
I was fine with the size of my 4S, the robustness and everything. Just all the software upgrades from Apple you cannot evade have made it nearly as slow and un unusable after 3 years. No environmental influences have lead me to buy a new one
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Yea I know what your saying. the only thing they can do is recall or offer a fix else they'll be replacing them for a long time.
Really I think the only thing they can do is nothing.
If they make it known that they are replacing these, they are in serious trouble, as itll be seen as an official design fault. The cost/fallout/bad press will be unfathomable. Especially to Apple who are held in such high esteem.
Apple don't need to admit anything when mainstream tech blogs are acting like Apple PR:
http://www.theverge.com/2014/9/24/6838821/video-demonstrates-reported-banana-bending-issues
http://www.wired.com/2014/09/iphone-6-plus-bendgate/
http://www.imore.com/yes-aluminum-iphone-6-and-6-plus-can-be-bent-if-too-much-pressure-applied
Maybe, but there is a significant difference bewteen Apple acting/saying something and some third parties speaking on their behalf without permission or direct evidence.
