“Competition between mobile phone manufactures is fierce with handset companies using social media and other public platforms to call out their competitors,” Kelly Hodgkins reports for MacRumors.
“It’s not surprising then to see a wave of tweets and comments from big name companies like Samsung and HTC mocking Apple following its recent iPhone 6 Plus bending controversy,’ Hodgkins reports.
Some samples:
Designed to withstand the most demanding environments. Like your pockets. #HTCOneM8
— HTC USA (@HTCUSA) September 24, 2014
Our phone doesn't bend, it flexes…on purpose. #bendgate pic.twitter.com/d1DudxDQgf
— LG USA Mobile (@LGUSAMobile) September 24, 2014
Curved. Not bent. #GALAXYNoteEdge pic.twitter.com/OTPIYlI07f
— Samsung Mobile (@SamsungMobile) September 25, 2014
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Since going on sale last Friday, September 19th, Apple said only nine customers have contacted the company about a bent iPhone 6 Plus.
So, with 15 million* iPhone 6/Plus units out there currently, 9 units equals 0.00006% of all iPhone 6/Plus units.
In other words: The odds of having an iPhone 6/Plus bend are 1,666,667 to 1.
The odds of being struck by lightning are 576,000 to 1.
*A rough, likely low estimate.
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U.S. stocks decline most in eight weeks as Apple stumbles and tumbles – September 25, 2014
Wired reviews Apple’s 64-bit iPhone 6 Plus: ‘Too big to fail, but not to bend’ – September 25, 2014
Apple CEO Tim Cook’s banana skins: U2, ‘Bendygate’ and iOS 8.0.1 – September 25, 2014
Video: Apple iPhone 6 Plus bend test – September 23, 2014
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Mdn.. The point of spreading this fud is?
Yes, most of the world got to see that video yesterday. And yes, I do not know how Apple will be able to afford to replace 9 bent iPhones 6 Plus devices. It is like Antennagate all over again. However, people do not see the improvements over the prior design. Did anyone comment yet about how well the glass and screen held up on a very bent iPhone 6 Plus? Did it crack? Did it keep working? Did the iPhone short out? Did the battery catch on fire? No! Even when the damage exceeded any possible real life damage from normal use, the iPhone kept working and was safe!
Apple will beef up the area around the volume buttons or move the buttons. It is a small engineering fix or revision to the design. It was painful to watch damage to my 401K today. But, my 401K will recover from this soon. Did anyone cancel their order? Did they just switch it to the smaller iPhone 6 that doesn’t bend in someone’s hand in a video? Ok, that changes the back order and sale from one iPhone to the other iPhone.
9 iPhone cost investors $8.28 billion today. Oh FUD! I see there is a sale on AAPL today. Time to buy while the FUD is flying.
Do you really think 9 iPhones involved in Bendgate caused Apple shares to sell off? Are Apple investors really that stupid to panic over such a small thing? If anything I thought it might be the bad OS update which was probably more widespread. Of course, there are those damn hedge fund guys who try to take advantage of panics only to buy back in the next day.
I doubt any significant number of consumers are spooked and even if they are they’ll probably settle down in a couple of days and continue on with their purchase of an iPhone. Once they’re aware of the situation they should just realize they need to be more careful. Simple enough.
Do you really think 9 iPhones involved in Bendgate caused Apple shares to sell off?
No. It is the media hysteria, and Apple’s competitors keeping the hysteria going.
Are Apple investors really that stupid to panic over such a small thing?
With the media and financial analysts spreading the mass hysteria on virtually zero evidence? Absolutely, yes.
Do you remember September 2012? Apparently you don’t.
It’s quite pathetic how jealous these guys are.
Especially when Samsung is still promoting its new stylus technology, straight out of 1995.
Enjoy!!
I watched the YouTube of the guy trying to bend the Samsung S5 and not succeeding. But everytime it got close to bending, he stopped applying force. It’s also obvious the force on his fingers was not anywhere near the force that was applied to the bending of the iPhone 6 Plus; his fingers never showed the flattening of the guy who bent the iPhone, nor did his hands even begin to shake with strain. . . instead, he stopped any effort. On the other hand, the fellow who destroyed the Samsung S4, had no difficulty and did it with little strain at all.
They might as well get the publicity while they can. In one month, this “crisis” will be barely a memory and the wannabes will continue hemorrhaging money.
Work gave me an S4 a few months ago and the FIRST thing I noticed was how bendable it was. It’s been in my back pocket when sitting and nothing has happened yet. I work in a materials test lab and would love to do a bend test to see how flexible thin phones are. I just can’t find anyone to allow me to test their iP6 and the company would frown on testing my phone.
Uh, yeah…send it to me and allow me to test the phone…real world test. I have a teenager with skinny jeans and tom boy active.
Feel Lab lucky?
I the Galaxy note edge even out yet? Seem to me if that thing bends that cubed glass screen is breaking.
Plastic phone maker Samsung dares to go there with something that could boomerang right back at them?
Boomerang engaged – HAHA!
MDN keeps calling this FUD, so why in the hell does this bullshit keep popping up here? I’m really sick and damn tired of this bentgate horse shit.
Remember MDN team make their living from showing us the Ads. They are no difference to other click whores except that they focus on Apple Fans.
Google recently cut advertising prices even further because nobody these days gives a shit about web ads. Which is great news for scammers as evidenced by the nasty cheap-ass corporate graffiti plastered all over this page.
Tim Cook should do the same thing that Steve Jobs did when Antennagate was the news. Steve Jobs took competitor phones one by one and showed how each phone had the same issue. The competition was immensely ticked back then.
In this case, Tim Cook could compare how each phone withstands pounds of pressure and throw it back in their faces with a demonstration.
Competitors are hell-bent on taking advantage of this.
Mdn and other apple centric sites.
You admit this is all fud in your own comments.. But yet you contribute to the spreading of the fud. ..Why? I asked once and i did not get an answer? Are u guys contradicting yourselves ?
Let me give u a hypotetical senario of a thought :
If samsung came to any of you and offered. A million dollars to continue spreading the fud in a subtle way( like just printing the headlines with no added comments ) .. Would u take the million and follow orders?
This is how these fud stuff is done. ( though i dont know of the pay amount or type )
When i see u guys contradict yourselves .. What am i to think?
The above is definitly one thought.
Specially in absance of any reasonable answer from you !
All I see from MDN and others here is the debunking of said FUD. Yes, they share the story. But then they also point out how ridiculous it is. Like you. Utterly. Ridiculous.
Originally mdn had no comment posted.
It was just added.
Im glad to see they did that !
notice how many samescum ads there are on MDN??????
Maybe if we’re lucky, Apple will finally stop trying to “out-thin” the rest of the rival smartphone manufacturers. I figured the chase for smartphone thinness would finally bite some company. Believe me, I think it’s stupid for anyone to deliberately try to bend a smartphone just to see if it will become distorted but I figured Apple would come under attack for some reason if rivals or haters got desperate enough to find some flaw in the new iPhone.
I’d like to see a number of smartphones tested for how easily they’ll distort through force. I’m sure every smartphone has some weak point that it would be easy to bend in a certain area. All I know is if I have a thin, delicate electronic device, I’m not going to put it in a situation where it might get bent. To me, that’s just common sense.
“Money doesn’t talk, it swears.”- Bob Dylan
Did yellow pages consider this……..
I did a quick look on the internet for people having problems with bent phones and this is what I got.
Zperia ZI posted on 14 Jan 2014
http://www.phonearena.com/news/Xperia-Z1-frame-bending-for-no-reason-claim-users_id51383
Don’t put Evo LTE in back pocket and sit on it (can bend easily) Posted July 13th, 2012
(Yep that one comes from 2012)
http://androidforums.com/htc-evo-4g-lte/582129-dont-put-evo-lte-in-back-pocket-sit-can-bend-easily.html
So the droid users are showing an amazing amount of double standards.
As i said this was from a quick look on the net, something the droid users would rather forget and i found it :-).
When your phone is 1/2 to 3X as thick as the iPhone 6 plus, of course it will resist bending more. Simple physics.
Apple should release the results of its study showing that people who use George Costanza wallet-thick phones suffer far more back problems than those who use an iPhone 6/6 Plus.
LOL! Check your math Bizlaw. 1/2 times as thick means that if the iPhone 6 is ~1/4″ thick, the 1/2 times as thick phone will be 1/8″ thick. . . and most likely far more bendable.
Physics of the thickness of any particulat substance has less to do with it than you might think. Composite materials science, form, design, and engineering will have a lot more to do with the stiffness of the phone than the thickness.
~ ~ THE WHINING of the DESPERATE pervades the air ~ ~
Hey guys!
Let them squirt FUD all over.
It is obviously desperate marketing strategies.
TIME TO BUY SOME MORE SHARE!
What they don’t mention is that their phones are thick as phone books and CAN’T ever bend because they’re like the 1980s brick cellphones with antennas!!! Can’t bend and won’t bend even though super thin are two different things.
And the 6 is the latter.
Who comes up with this cr*p?!
This is not about a design problem with iphone 6+
At least for those who can be considered sane consumers !
It is about the competition .. Specially samscum spreading fud .
They are scared of the immensely positive response and best in class durability tests of the the two new iphone 6 models !
“Apple said only nine customers have contacted the company about a bent iPhone 6 Plus”
Time for Samsung’s PR, er, propaganda department to get off their buts and get to work.
Come on Samsung, there are billions of dollars at stake here!
Meanwhile my Galaxy Note 2 is running the latest version of Android and still has cell phone connectivity.
Also it’s been in my pocket for the past two months without a case. Still straight as an arrow. 🙂
How many Android updates have BRICKED android phones in the past?
Compared to how many updates to iOS have turned Cell service off? (Didn’t brick the iPhones, and you *can* get the service back on.
None. The term ‘bricked’ when it comes to electronics describes a device that does absolutely nothing at all no matter what you do. Does not come on, doesn’t even vibrate or light up, and will not boot into recovery or factory service mode.
Flashing a ROM, whether it be an official manufacturer update or a custom ROM you downloaded somewhere else, doesn’t even touch the boot or recovery partitions of the phone. No matter what kind of damage a botched update does, you can just boot the phone into recovery or factory service mode and be up and running again in a matter of minutes.
……. simple search, 2 from the HUGE list.
http://www.neowin.net/news/nexus-4-owners-frustrated-over-android-43-update-which-threatens-to-brick-phones
http://www.androidorigin.com/verizon-droid-maxx-ultra-bricked-4-4-kitkat-ota-update/
ok, done with the ignorant today, someone else can school them.
The first article indicates the phones are still booting into the OS. Which just means an extremely buggy update, but nowhere near a brick. Just boot into recovery or factory service mode and roll back to the previous update.
The second article indicates the phones are turning on and getting to the splash screen. Again. Not a brick. And again. Boot into recovery or factory service mode and roll back to the previous update.
Do a simple search dumbass.
Verizon was replacing phones after a fucked OTA update a while back
oh look a SIMPLE SEARCH found another one.
http://www.androidmeter.com/verizon-replacing-bricked-razrs-with-phone-of-equal-or-lesser-value/
Oh look. Yet another SIMPLE SEARCH pulled up a guide on how to recover from said “brick”
http://theunlockr.com/2012/01/24/how-to-restore-the-motorola-droid-razr-using-fastboot-files/
Turn phone off. Boot into factory service mode (which in this case is ‘AP Fastboot’) and then roll back to the previous update.
But it just goes to show that only idiots run their phones on OEM software and don’t keep system backups at least once a week.
MY link… Dec 2012 regarding a CHRISTMAS DAY 2012 OTA update of JELLY BEAN.
YOUR link… JANUARY 2012. for GINGERBREAD
Wait… “Yet another SIMPLE SEARCH pulled up a guide on how to recover from said “brick” ”
Does it mean going BACK IN TIME FIRST??????
No. Because the methods of recovering a phone do not change. That’s how you recovery pretty much ANY Android. Regardless of when the guide was posted.
The fact that you even thought the dates were relevant says it all. My god the sheer stupidity…
This is why I’ve always said Android is for people who can handle it. iPhone is for everyone else. I will give Apple credit for one thing. They do an amazing job of keeping the iPhone simplified and dumbed down to a level that people like you can handle.
Dracoazule, most people simply DON’T want to spend weekly sessions working ON their phones to maintain them in case they crash. This is the exact same problem that Microsoft sufferers left the Windows world to escape. . . and discovered the joys of actually USING their equipment without having to spend an inordinate amount of WASTED time just to make sure it was working only reasonably well. . and even MORE time in regular busy work doing housekeeping. Why should we want to do any of that with our mobile devices???? I have a lot more constructive and profitable things to do with my time than be a slave to a brain dead phone’s operating system.
How many Android phone owners wish they could upgrade their operating systems on their phones but can’t, because their carriers or the makers don’t even offer the opportunity?
Yes the investors are that STUPID! There dumber than 2X4’s.
Here’s a company that has everything going for it but they can’t put the stock over 100 a share. They have sold more phones in a weekend than Samsung could do in a month or longer. Yes investors, anal-ists are DUMB! Oh and Apple’s not done releasing new products yet. That’s how DUMB investors/anal-ists are!
1. Flummoxed Competitors will spread FUD – as if not ALL big ass phones with more surface do not bend!
2. if you put a phone in tight space and sit on it, it’s your own STUPIDITY, stop seeking scapegoat excuses; just as driving with hot drink in hand – if it spills it’s yours, not anyone else’s fault
Drowning shysters grasping at straws. Remember antenna gate FUD?