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Two iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone Air Colors Appear to Scratch More Easily
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Cause i was already charged. Also i don't remember complaints on iphone 16 base black and they are pretty much look the same so i guess i'm gonna keep it unless i see an image today....sigh.
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I see it the same way, I had already been "annoyed" that they shot down stainless steel. Today's iPhone Pro is the ugliest for me. The Air is the design winner for me, technically I hope it will catch up next year. Then I'm at the start for a change
Oh boy a scratch gate possibly? Glad I waited to see these reviews.
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They dont want to face reality about the QC
Imaging spending that kind of money and being annoyed and have to treat it like a new born puppy lol
Like the back of your 16 Pro, the back is NOT metal, it is a different material. The new phones are not Aluminum on the back, they are Ceramic shield, and in the case of our 16 pro phones, they are glass.
I am wondering if some of these supposed scratches are actually a material transfer from other objects into the grain of the back of the phone. My Pixel 3 did this, and sometimes I get what looks like chalk on the back of my 16 pro that wipes off.
Oh well. It's just a phone, and scratches are cosmetic. These days people care more about taking care of their phones (that they replaces every few years anyway) than they do about taking care of their bodies!
And most will have it in a case anyway.
And most will have it in a case anyway.
I was the first customer at the Apple Store this morning to pick up a blue iPhone 17 Pro Max on the demo table, and it had two pronounced scratches on it, which I thought was really weird. Are the Apple Store employees accidentally scratching them? Is it happening during manufacturing?
Interesting! Maybe China (or wherever) is sending the ones which failed QA so they can be used as display phones.
Good for saving waste, but creates a bad impression. I guess people see the scratches, take a photo to get likes on Macrumors or YT, and then buy the phone anyway 😁
When I went to the Apple Store here, they were all marked up on the Ceramic Shield back as well. The employee mentioned it's from the MagSafe stand they display them on, and it happened to every phone when they set them up. It's very easy to mark them up. I asked the employee if he minded if I could test it and he didn't care. I very gently slid the back of the phone against the side of the charging stand in a small area and it made another mark; I couldn't wipe it off - maybe a microfiber would be more successful. I don't know how they couldn't have discovered that during manufacturing and testing. The aluminum didn't have any marks at all on it. Not a great look when the display phones look like they've spent a year in someone's pocket with keys.
It's only on the front. Ceramic Shield 1 on the back. Which scratched much more easily.
Because aluminum is total crap. It's soft af and if you drop your "pro" it will bend and glass will shatter. I've dropped 12 pro and now 15 pro many times and glass survived. That's why people are talking. Why tf would they ship cheap ass aluminium "pro" models?
The pros have been matte for a long time and the color was underneath, like on the previous glossy ones. The 15 and 16 the matte back had color infused glass, so the color couldnt be scraped off, not sure if the base 17 does but I would assume so
Is this the first year you’re watching a new iPhone release?
You are aware that we have this so called whatever-gates with scratches, heat, cracks and whatever, every single year…
If you therefore avoided buying iPhones, ok fine. But buying an iPhone and the past and now comparing over and over again over internet content crawl bs is just dumb.