“I cannot believe that this ‘bent iPhone 6 Plus’ thing is becoming a thing,” John Gruber writes for Daring Fireball. “Watch this jackass’s video — inexplicably promoted by TIME magazine.”
“Should not we be amazed that his phone didn’t snap in half under this pressure?” Gruber asks. “That the glass didn’t fracture? Under pressure like this, bending but not breaking seems like an extraordinary feature.”
Brief article in full here.
“Now, it’s bent iPhones,” Kirk McElhearn writes for Kirkville. “Because someone didn’t realize that, when you sit on something, there’s this thing called physics that says that, when there’s enough pressure on something, it will either bend or break.”
“And, now, lots of websites are showing videos of them bending iPhones,” McElhearn writes. “As if it’s worth the cost of on iPhone to get a bunch of mindless people to watch a video of an iPhone getting bent.”
Read more in the full article here.
“Any phone made of metal is still subject to the laws of physics, but to reiterate that this isn’t exactly a problem exclusive to the iPhone 6, here’s a look at other Android and Apple phones that have bending problems,” Buster Hein reports for Cult of Mac. “Samsung’s phones are dominated by plastic, but it’s new metal-friendly Galaxy S4 devices are prone to bending in pockets too. XDA forum user Phonage reports his Galaxy S4 bent when he put it in his front jeans pocket.”
“Many Sony Xperia Z1 users reported their metal frame mysteriously bent for no reason at all after being left in rear pockets,” Hein reports. “One unfortunate CrackBerry user posted pics of his Q10 that never fell but is bent. ‘I’ve no clue what happened .. I’m so pissed.’ Other BlackBerry owners in the forum thread reported seeing similar bendings.”
Hein reports, “The HTC EVO 4G LTE is particularly susceptible to bending and breaking if you sit on it while docked in a cup holder.”
Read more and see all of the bent phones in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Here’s the recipe for iPhone FUD:
1. Identify an issue that all other smartphones have (i.e. cellular antenna attenuation, screens that can be scratched with materials that are harder than the screen, metal casing that can be scratched with materials that are harder than the metal casing, phishing easily-guessed passwords from people who fail to utilize two-factor and other provided protections to obtain photos taken with smartphones from online storage, metal cases that bend under extreme force, etc.) or concoct an issue which has no factual basis at all (i.e. iPhone 5c, which outsold all other non-iPhones on the planet, is a “failure.”)
2. Important: Pretend that issue is only attributable to Apple’s iPhone. Feign “concern.”
3. Make goofy videos using iPhone only to illustrate this issue that all other smartphones have. Continue to feign “concern.”
4. Blow said issue wildly out of proportion via the media echo chamber with much wringing of hands.
5. After Apple’s iPhone destroys you in premium smartphone sales, wonder why your iPhone FUD failed yet again.
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Oh for crying out loud, just buy a proper holster. What kind of idiot buys a $600 phone and jams it into a tight fitting pants butt pocket? A moron, that’s who. I use a holster that clips and loops onto my belt. It never, ever slips off, it’s kept clean, it’s not put under any stress, and it’s a hell of a lot easier to pull out and put away. I’m truly amazed by the level of idiocy by some people. Do something stupid and blame everybody else besides yourself when things go awry. I would never shove my expensive iPhone into a tight pocket, because simple common sense dictates the chance of too much stress on the device could break it. DOH!
Here’s a test that helps to provide the “front pocket bend” is a load of crap. Put your and in your front pocket. Sit down. In my case (jeans). I couldn’t feel any stress on my hand (Which longer and thicker than an iPhone 6 Plus).
Whoops, that should be “hand in your pocket”.
A non issue to sane adults.
Samsung paid posters are flooding the internet with this insanity.
i just sat on my designer pair of sunglasses and the frames are all bent to $hit. Time for a class action…..
Yes let’s make extreme statements about other products that also bend instead of accepting that there is an issue with the beloved iPhone. Glasses aren’t meant to be stored in your pocket. I used to think phones could be stored in your pocket but apparently apple thinks otherwise.
The bigger issue here is that all you idiots just accept the crap that apple sells you. You let them get away with selling you crap and you pay a premium for it. If you continue to deby or ignore issues with apple products they will never be compelled to improve their products because they will sell anyway. And you idiots some equate a product that sells no matter the flaws to be a good thing? That’s apple taking advantage of a foolish customer base.
The glasses weren’t in my pocket, I left them on the car seat, inside a soft case. 😉 Instead of taking responsibility that it was my fault, the world seems to place blame elsewhere, just for these friction’ websites to get hits. I suppose you didn’t see the youtube video either, where the time on the iPhone screens were in the wrong sequence. Yes anything can bend with enough force but day to day “normal” use doesn’t bend phones.
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