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Thank you MacRumors for making a non issue a major issue as per media
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It made the news, they reported it. They were fair about it. How does this actually affect you personally? I have a 6+ on order (whenever you're ready AT&T) and I for one am glad it's being talked about. I'll accept the truth no matter what it is, although I prefer it's just a fluke. In the mean time, no need to silence people.
I'm sorry you are offended by people being concerned about their purchases. As for me I want the issue investigated as I have $989 invested in the situation.
Read my past posts...I am one of the ones who really turned up the heat on this issue being a real concern due to the build of this new phone. Discussing it on a forum that you have to log into and join in order to post on is one thing, especially with just a handful of incidents so far.
Slathering it on the front page for all the world to see in order to get precious page hits is an entirely different matter....annoying to say the least.
And apple doesnt give a crap as long as they sell phones, so we really are just a perfect bunch right?
Who cares. Free speech, if this isn't a widespread issue we'll find out soon enough, but it seems to be the case.
I am not the biggest fan of how the web affects individuals and corporations who happen to employ Human Beings when it comes to mass-hysteria-web-rhetoric.
I am on the fence regarding this phone, I love the idea of fast new hardware but not a larger phone and certainly not one that can break even easier than ever before. I'm not a fanboy, an apologist or anything else like that, just a person who has used Apple products professionally since 1992....and not a fan of these kinds of fallouts..
I even tried it with mine and nothing happened. I'd like to say the video of the guy bending his is fake, but I'm sure I'd get heat for it. I just don't understand though, I've kept it in my front pocket all day too, nothing, still completely straight, as completely straight as my 5S which also apparently had bending issues and I kept naked the vast majority of the time since launch.
I don't think it is fake, but it sure seems excessive, some form of measurable gauge of force would have been far more useful.
I was once in a car accident and bent my car. Think they'd replace it? Cars shouldn't bend!!
Glad you're strawmanning by comparing someone keeping a phone in their pocket to having a car wreck. Nice going.
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While I agree with that statement, he did the exact same thing to the note 3, actually harder he said, and it didn't do anything near to the degree that the plus did.
I don't think this issue is a serious crime....buyers remorse will take care of your issue
A better comparison would be if your car was bent as a result of parking it in your garage for more than an hour.
I had the exact same reaction when I was watching the video; when he said he was going to "test" it, I thought he meant that he was going to perform some measurable force tests to determine what kind of pressure the phone could withstand. Straining to bend in the phone with your hands isn't indicative of any real-world use scenario that I am familiar with.
If the goal of the video was to determine which phone could withstand being forced to bend with all the force one can muster with their bare hands, then the Note 3 would be a clear winner. Otherwise, what was being proved other than that plastic tends to maintain its shape better than metal (which we ought to have already known)?
Also, a test is only as good as the controls that are implemented to ensure its results. I mean, how do we know he was really giving that Note the same bending force as he was the iPhone? I don't know that guy; maybe he's biased (not saying he is, just making a point) and didn't actually give the Note his full strength.
I personally am not going to make a buying decision off of something like that.
I actually like the new iPhone, though I think the 5.5 is too big for me. I was just saying that calling it a non-issue is a stretch. Can't really upgrade until May
Well I checked twitter with numerous complains, the bending video has already hit 3 millions views - you can talk whatever you want but that's a problem, probably a huge one.
I think in the end apple quietly would stiffen design and offer free replacement for bended phones. But how long will it take - probably couple of month.
That's why I never buy a new product right from the start - every new product has manufactory flows, it was like this since ipod launch.
So let's wait and see.
I think in the end apple quietly would stiffen design and offer free replacement for bended phones. But how long will it take - probably couple of month.
That's why I never buy a new product right from the start - every new product has manufactory flows, it was like this since ipod launch.
So let's wait and see.
Doesn't it....
Never heard of corporate wars.
A few implanted stories, videos on Apple forums.
users that ever had been in mac rumours all the sudden putting photos up of bent iPhone 6....
Stuffing a precision piece of electronics in your skinny jeans pocket and applying pressure to it is not normal use, no matter how normal it might be to you. The laws of physics still apply.
If this is happening in your sweatpants pocket or loose shorts, you might have a reason to complain, but seriously, everyone was saying how they weren't sure they would be able to walk or sit with the 6+ in their pockets due to its size, right? Well, why say that? Because you know it would be resisting the FORCE that you were placing on it.
I keep my phone in a horizontal belt pouch and don't ever have to worry about it bending, cracking, or anything else.
If this is happening in your sweatpants pocket or loose shorts, you might have a reason to complain, but seriously, everyone was saying how they weren't sure they would be able to walk or sit with the 6+ in their pockets due to its size, right? Well, why say that? Because you know it would be resisting the FORCE that you were placing on it.
I keep my phone in a horizontal belt pouch and don't ever have to worry about it bending, cracking, or anything else.