I admit, it took me a couple of seconds to figure out your Apple-gate joke, but I did enjoy it!
Ironically, one of the biggest trolling events in this forum's history was in relation to Bendgate...
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Which "gate" is being cooked up this year's iPhone? [MERGED]
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Ironically, one of the biggest trolling events in this forum's history was in relation to Bendgate...
The design was intentional. One of the outcomes wasn't. Incorporating the antennas into the exterior bezel was a brilliant design. Saved components, saved weight. Guess the testers had less sweaty and conductive hands than the average consumer. Which didn't ground out the signal.
Takata designed the airbags to explode, just didn't take into account moisture absorption by the cheaper propellant would over energize the propellant with extra oxygen molecules cause a higher rate/faster deployment explosion.
The original Comet jet was designed with square windows. No one anticipated aluminum stress fractures at the corners from repeated pressurization cycles. Until they started to disintegrate in mid air. So now all jet liners have oval windows.
Many intentional designs have unintentional and unwelcome consequences.
That's my point though. It's not like they're forgetting to include a headphone jack or accidentally sealing it up somehow. It's a deliberate decision with deliberate consequences. If there's a backlash, I don't think that qualifies as a "gate" because those are typically unforeseen and accidental.
Point taken........LOL well Nixon's certainly was unforeseen and accidental. Too bad Forest Gump was staying at the Watergate hotel that night.
Watergate would be perfect for the 10th anniversary iPhone and bring the original "gate" from 40 years ago to the present. It is sold as water proof but people figure out a way to ruin the phone in the ocean and make a big deal about it in the media.
yes but it went away since iPhone 6 was released. now with the 7 both sides having the same grill normal everyday people would think their phone is messed up.
Some might think that perhaps, but it wouldn't really be anything more than it was for all those years before iPhone 6.
Well. I have not heard any fuzz about watergate from other Android OEMs.
Plenty of OEMs has released plenty waterpoofed phone. I haven't heard anyone doing what you described.
Is it people or is it Apple too stpuid to make iPhone waterproofing right?
Probably more that nobody cares a crap about whether other Android phones actually live up to their claims or not. If it does, good for them. If not, too bad.
Sony practically backtracked on their waterproofing claims and there was barely any outcry over it, iirc. There was the case of the Samsung active not being as waterproof as claimed, and nobody really cared.
Only with Apple do you face such intense scrutiny over every move they make. That is Apple's blessing, and also its curse.
It must cost more, the deeper the shades of color! Apple's just try to do it stuff, keep costs down; save a penny or two an unit.
IDK. I heard some pretty huge buzz about the last note phone being able to insert the stylus in upside down and thus damaging the stylus and/or the phone. And I have never even owned a galaxy device in my life.
Only thing I can think of in recent light, but I point this out to say that Android OEMs definitely get scrutinized too. Is it to the same degree? Dunno. No real way to measure. Enthusaist forums (such as this one or Android central) tend to produce skewed results.
I think when "pengate" broke out, the general sentiment was "you are an idiot for inserting it wrong". Samsung subsequently went on to improve on the design with the note 7, but that was pretty much the extent of it.
Even current Samsung phones have limits to how waterproof they are, and this again is impacted by factors like how damaged your device is. Apple could be going with the "either make it waterproof all the way or not at all" route. None of this "waterproof when placed no deeper than 1 m for up to 30 minutes" kind of fine print.
That's my guess at least. In the meantime, I will just be extra careful with my iPhone and keep it far away from water.
I agree, though isn't that the same thing people said about bending? "Don;t sit on your phone". And then, Apple decided to use a harder aluminum.I think when "pengate" broke out, the general sentiment was "you are an idiot for inserting it wrong". Samsung subsequently went on to improve on the design with the note 7, but that was pretty much the extent of it.
Even current Samsung phones have limits to how waterproof they are, and this again is impacted by factors like how damaged your device is. Apple could be going with the "either make it waterproof all the way or not at all" route. None of this "waterproof when placed no deeper than 1 m for up to 30 minutes" kind of fine print.
That's my guess at least. In the meantime, I will just be extra careful with my iPhone and keep it far away from water.
My point was that anything that sells in a large enough quantity is likely to have some sort of problem that users notice. I mean, the very fact that I heard about the note "issue" is proof that you don;t necessarily even have to be an enthusiast of the product to hear about it. In the days of the internet, these problems are often blown up.
