“Sometimes, you need to curse to make your point,” Chris Matyszczyk reports for CNET. “In the case of T-Mobile CEO John Legere, a curseless statement is rarer than a polar bear in Silicon Valley.”
“It’s heartening, then, that he dedicated the full force of his lexicon to the phenomenon known as Bendgate,” Matyszczyk reports. “Speaking at the GeekWire Summit, Legere offered [starts at 20:16 in video below] this considered view, shortly after sitting on his iPhone 6 Plus: ‘That is such horses***. I mean, come on, what the f*** did you need to see?'”
Matyszczyk reports, “Warming to his theme and mock-bending his phone, he said: ‘The video of the guy that’s doing this — and if you could have seen his face, he probably would have been purple… Are you s***ting me? I mean, when was the last time you took any other…this is an amazing supercomputer in your hand… His conclusion: ‘This thing doesn’t f***ing bend.'”
MacDailyNews Take: Thermonuclear.Congratulations to T-Mobile CEO John Legere for telling it like it is.
Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt – FUD – is the last recourse from scared rivals facing decimation who have nothing else to offer. It is a feeble, doomed attempt to stave off the inevitable.
Have a warm and toasty holiday season and beyond, iPhone roadkill!
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “Fred Mertz” and “Jim” for the heads up.]
I wish T-mobile had better coverage in my area. I’d switch in a heartbeat. They are so much more customer friendly. Legere is so much more in tune with his customers than AT&T’s Ralph de la Vega.
I switched, after seven years with AT&T, to T-Mobile when I got my new iPhone 6. I like its carrier-related features – especially Wi-Fi calling – but am underwhelmed by the network coverage, especially for a company that says they are “data strong.” I just did a road trip from Southern California to the Bay Area on I-5 and had poor data service about 70% of the distance. Weirdly, the voice coverage was mostly ok.
Tweet T-Mobile’s CEO John Legere. He also said during this interview that he respnds to all tweets I believe. At least you’d have an idea of what the CEO thinks and what the company expansion plans might be for your area regarding your experience. It’s worth a shot.
Just watched the video, I like this guy. He’s not a stuffed shirt and he gets it.
He’s also a lot of fun to watch.
Yes, me too. I tried their “Try and Buy” with the iPhone 5 about 6 weeks ago. Unfortunately, the service in my area was horrible both phone and internet so I couldn’t justify the split from red rock Verizon. AT&T and Verizon are such a rip off..
I only need a cell phone for emergency use or when on travel. So I invested in a T-Mobile pay-as-you-go phone. It only required $10 added per quarter, with unused minutes passing to the next quarter. After reaching $100 my “minutes” now last a year! Can’t beat that.
Been with T-Mobile for quite a few years. The cost is fairly reasonable for a family of six. The coverage has been decent across the country, although it is often spotty within buildings. AT&T and Verizon customers seem to do a little better in terms of coverage/signal strength. But I am reasonably satisfied overall.
Which Apple store. Please tell us so we can check it. I have been in Palo Alto, Stanford, valley Fair and Oakridge stores and seen no bent iPhones. Tell us which Apple store is yours.
You’re ridiculous. The phone bends, Apple acknowledges it. The point is treat the phone right and be careful. Treat it like the $1k device it is and you won’t have a problem.
Any bending was caused by excessive force to the point that it was less a bend than just a straight break. If it was the case that through extended use the thing did begin to show a curve/bend just by being in a pocket through reasonable use then there may be a point, but if nothing else there hasn’t been the time for that the have happened.
If you have a “bent” iPhone, then you are more likely to have just plain old broken it through completely unreasonable use, or in most cases by doing it on purpose because you’re an idiot.
With mass manufacturing, there is always the possibility of a defective unit and that’s probably what happened to those “9” devices Apple said were reported to them.
I’m not going to denounce any real issues, but come on man, bending the phone in your hands with all your might, is just stupid and completely unreasonable.
That’s like bitching about bending a screw driver while trying to pry something open with it.
Of course, this is Apple, so a failure rate of 9:10,000,000 is completely unforgivable. /s
No, there’s just no shortage of abject and careless boneheads out there who routinely mistreat their devices. I can pretty well guarantee these weren’t lemons, manufactured with a weakness to cause bending so much as mere rough mistreatment. My reaction was “only9? – I would expect at least a thousand idiot customer manhandled phones.”
Apple has consistently attracted HATE mongering blowhards, before and after becoming the biggest and best company on the planet. Let’s face it: Apple make all the lazy wannabes look bad. Horsesh*t FUD mongering is the response of the desperately lame. Ancient history…
First, what does Steve have to do with it? The unhealthy obsession with making each iPhone thinner than the next is driven by Ive. As far as I’m concerned, Apple screwed up by not inserting more battery into the iPhone 6 and keeping it the same thickness as the 5S. NOBODY in the real world was asking for a thinner profile.
As for Legere — well, shock sells. Which is sad, because any asshat can use foul language. It takes true wit to disarm the competition without juvenile words.
Of course, as someone who uses the term ‘asshat’, you’d know that only too well.
The iP4S was 9.3mm, the 5S 7.6mm, the 6 6.9mm, and the 6+ 7.1mm, so the 6+ is .5mm thinner than a 5S, and the 6 .7mm; not a huge amount, and any issues can be easily remedied by not shoving your phone into the back pocket of a pair of tight-fitting jeans, then putting your fat ass on top of it when sitting on a hard surface.
My 6+, when I finally get it, will live inside an Otterbox, because it will live in a real world where things get dropped, get wet, and other forms of abuse.
Oddly, he reminds me of someone I know in California who is easily one of the most creative and fun people I now, except my friend would NEVER throw out the expletives right and left. In a way, it points out to me how we can get caught up in speaking styles and miss the spirit inside the person. I’d easily be friends with Legere, knowing full well he’s going to be throwing me curve balls all day. He’s going to be fun to watch.
Thing is that it worked at least for now. The stock is below $100.00 as we write this. The bendgate issue, OS 8 0h 0h 1, the U2 give away, the delay of the release in China, and Jay Morrison’s posts about the watch being clunky along with the rest of the FUDster have charmed Whore Street and analycysts as it always does.
Heck if it wasn’t for those quarterly reports, all the profits and great products along with Apple fans reporting truth with honor and integrity the stock would be way lower than it is now.
Rest assured the stock will break over the $100 and then move forward under the wonderful leadership of Tim Cook.
So: C/P
Don’t put it in your back pocket because you might sit and bent it
Don’t put it in your front pocket because you might walk/run/dance and bend it
Don’t put it in your bag/backpack because something inside might bend it
What’s next?
And they call it A MOBILE device. LOL
Better just leave in unboxed until the next iteration.
you sit on a galaxy and it won’t bend? really? why don’t you bring yours for me to try on?
IPhone 9 bend complaints out of 10 m.
To put that in perspective the Galaxy Gear Smart watch had 30% return rate (i.e for 10 m it would 3 MILLION returns). Now THAT is a real quality problem.
9 out of 10 m , they should be giving the iPhone awards for sturdiness.
Buy yourself a Galaxy and hump it all day long as far as I’m concerned. But ttt.
How many phones (take any phone, take all the phones) did bend in first few days (take even weeks) of use?
None, Zero!
How many iPhone 6?
2 in first 3 days
9 in first 6 days
…
You know math, don’t you – what is that progression?
Now calculate how many will go bent after a month or two or three. Good luck.
The phone has been out for a month now. How many MORE have been reported by FUDmeister like you?
9 times 100 divided by 10,000,000. That’s the number you are too confused to understand.
I cannot help you if the math is fuzzy for you and calling other stupid will not make you any smarter in that regard.
The iPhone is out for just over two weeks – a simple counting would have been suffice to know.
Don’t cling to a number 9 too much (and for too long) though, it will give you a false perception of things around you.
“How many phones (take any phone, take all the phones) did bend in first few days (take even weeks) of use?
None, Zero!”
lol
how do YOU know that?
samsung doesn’t release warranty returns.
for all I know there could be 1000 returned for bending, breaking etc.
we DO know that the Galaxy Gear had a 30% return rate (i.e 3 million out of 10 million) from leaked documents. So you put THAT against apple’s 9 out of 10 million and we can easily see which company actually has quality. C’mon go ahead tell me with a straight face: you think a company with 3 MILLION returns with one product has better quality than one with 9?
We also know that Square Trade the Gadget Insurer rates the iPhone 6 and 6 plus BETTER than some Samsung phones for resistance to breaking.
extremetech: “The iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, along with being the largest phones Apple has ever built, are also the toughest and most durable. Perhaps even more importantly, the iPhone 6 beats out the durability of other Android phones in the same class (the HTC One M8 and the Moto X), and the iPhone 6 Plus is the most rugged smartphone with a screen larger than five inches, beating out the Galaxy S5. This data comes from SquareTrade, a company that provides extended warranties and insurance for gadgets — and as you probably know, underwriters are very discerning people indeed.”
Square Trade sells INSURANCE, it will not be their advantage if they judge wrong selling policies for iPhone and then have them break, they will lose money…
Meanwhile the Unbox Therapy “bend gate” guy makes money being sensationalist and we already know from critics there is massive editing in his videos (some of the iPhones had ‘pre’ bends in them if you look carefully).
Oh believe me – we all would know if phones bent in the past as easy as iPhone 6.
Wow – didn’t knew Gear was sold in 10M copies.
Did these 30% returned spontaneously bent? No
Did they malfunction? No
Many were returned because people didn’t know they need to have a Galaxy phone with it. Seems like Gear 2 fairs better anyway.
You are clinging to the number 9 like it stayed that way from the Apple announcement. LOL.
So lets see what Squaretrade covers:
– Camera
– Power & Home button
– Touchscreen crack & malfunction
– Headphone Jack
– Battery
– Water damage
– Charging port
Oh – no bending?
I wonder why.
ExtremeTech?
No comparative testing between iPhone 6 and the rest?
No bend test? Right, move on.
“Wow – didn’t knew Gear was sold in 10M copies”
ah parsing semantics,
don’t be dense dude, earlier in my thread I already said it was relative : “To put that in perspective the Galaxy Gear Smart watch had 30% return rate (i.e for 10 m it would 3 MILLION returns)” It was just for easy comparison .. BUT…
if you want to nitpick (as you’ve already lost the argument) let me put it this way: 30% return for Galaxy Gear vs 0.00009 % for iPhone, which is in your mind do you think represents a company with quality issues? LOL.
you say:
“So lets see what Squaretrade covers:
– Camera
– Power & Home button
– Touchscreen crack & malfunction
– Headphone Jack
– Battery
– Water damage
– Charging port
Oh – no bending?
I wonder why.”
LOL LOL LOL
the ONLY thing that a phone durability is judged on is Bending????
so if the iPhone trashes the samsung, HTC etc stuff on all the rest it’s ok?
ANYHOW: SQUARE TRADE DID DO A BEND TEST!
Washington Post:
” For the first trial, SquareTrade asked two of the most physically fit members of its office to try and bend some phones.
“Employee Jessica Hoffman — a 5′ 4” pianist who, like her colleagues, “considers herself strong,” the company said — couldn’t make it budge, even when applying direct pressure to the weakest part of the phone, near the volume buttons. But her colleague Pace Lu, a bodybuilder and certified personal trainer who can bench 405 lbs., bent the phone ”
ONLY their BODYBUILDER tester could bend the phone.
The also did a sit test:
“SquareTrade sought out an employee wearing skinny jeans — in this case, Pourmeh Sarram, who is 5′ 10” and helpfully told The Post that he has a 31-inch waist. Sarram wedged the phone in his jeans pockets. Then SquareTrade had him sit in an office chair for 30 minutes with the phone in his front jeans pocket — mirroring a situation that a user described in a widely-circulated MacRumors post.
Sarram said this was “very uncomfortable.” SquareTrade also asked Sarram to do 10 squats with the phone in his pocket. But none of these situations managed to bend the phone in any way.”
ARE YOU HUMILIATED ENOUGH??
and you sarcastically said “Oh – no bending?
I wonder why.”
What are you IMPLYING? LOL! That Square trade INSURERS
are going to OVERLOOK bending IF IT WAS REALLY A PROBLEM with the iPhone, sell warranties and then LOSE MONEY on the claims? you nuts?
looks like you are dredging the bottom of the barrel of your arguments.
Again:
– Gear – Those 30% not defective.
– 9 in 10M in 6 days – Also not defective, it’s just they didn’t hold as well as they should and it could have happened with any of these 10M.
BTW – if those 9 were only iP6+ then you might have 9 in >1M.
Do you think the number (9) magically froze in time? LOL, Right.
– Only Bodybuilder and those kids in Apple store could have done it. I’m sorry but I don’t buy that ONLY a bodybuilder could bend it.
– Humiliated? By what? Your cherry-picked instances of defense?
You need to take off those iBlinkers.
– Squaretrade – Not implying anything – Just stating that a bent iPhone is (at least currently) NOT SOMETHING THEY COVER.
so why did they return all those stupid watches (to tune of many many times bend gate iPhones?) pure SUCKINESS?
you got back and forth with your numbers yet you can’t escape 30% vs 0.00009%.
c’mon which company has better quality control?
lol
BTW the ANTENNAGATE iPhone 4 had a return rate of 1.7% for All reasons (less than 1% customers called about antenna issues of all kinds in the max hype period of the ‘gate’ ) LOL. One more time compare THAT to 30% samsung gear returns.)
It hilarious you trying to hit on apple quality.
“Only Bodybuilder and those kids in Apple store could have done it. ”
one more time: speculation, without base. Could be samsung trolls with fake pictures…
we already know samsung does things like that, they admitted to making fake reviews, news items etc in the HTC lawsuit, apologize publicly, also fined by Asian governments.
Me, I got factual tests from an insurer etc.
“Your cherry-picked instances of defense?”
what cherry picked? I got , Square Trade, SEC verifiable claims by Apple , you got some pictures and astro turf crap from the internet.
I got numbers 30% vs 0.00009% to give perspective on what QUALITY means, you got gasping incoherence, by reading crap on the internet (with no factual backing of numbers ) it bends …
LOL, I keep trashing you backwards and forwards and you keep coming back for more.
LOL.
Straight up!
Power to you and T Mobile, JL
He knows what side the of the bread’s got the butter.
Switched to T-Mobile earlier this year… Cut my AT&T bill by more than half and I’m getting way more for my money. No regrets!
I wish T-mobile had better coverage in my area. I’d switch in a heartbeat. They are so much more customer friendly. Legere is so much more in tune with his customers than AT&T’s Ralph de la Vega.
I switched, after seven years with AT&T, to T-Mobile when I got my new iPhone 6. I like its carrier-related features – especially Wi-Fi calling – but am underwhelmed by the network coverage, especially for a company that says they are “data strong.” I just did a road trip from Southern California to the Bay Area on I-5 and had poor data service about 70% of the distance. Weirdly, the voice coverage was mostly ok.
Tweet T-Mobile’s CEO John Legere. He also said during this interview that he respnds to all tweets I believe. At least you’d have an idea of what the CEO thinks and what the company expansion plans might be for your area regarding your experience. It’s worth a shot.
Just watched the video, I like this guy. He’s not a stuffed shirt and he gets it.
He’s also a lot of fun to watch.
Yes, me too. I tried their “Try and Buy” with the iPhone 5 about 6 weeks ago. Unfortunately, the service in my area was horrible both phone and internet so I couldn’t justify the split from red rock Verizon. AT&T and Verizon are such a rip off..
I only need a cell phone for emergency use or when on travel. So I invested in a T-Mobile pay-as-you-go phone. It only required $10 added per quarter, with unused minutes passing to the next quarter. After reaching $100 my “minutes” now last a year! Can’t beat that.
Been with T-Mobile for quite a few years. The cost is fairly reasonable for a family of six. The coverage has been decent across the country, although it is often spotty within buildings. AT&T and Verizon customers seem to do a little better in terms of coverage/signal strength. But I am reasonably satisfied overall.
Skip to 20:12 to see the iPhone comments.
Sadly I’ve seen a few bent phones at my local Apple Store.
There’s no doubt that they will bend if an army of Samsung reps tries hard enough : )
Which Apple store. Please tell us so we can check it. I have been in Palo Alto, Stanford, valley Fair and Oakridge stores and seen no bent iPhones. Tell us which Apple store is yours.
Why, it’s the Apple Store he just visited and bent the iPhone 6+ display models in. . . that’s the obvious answer.
You’re ridiculous. The phone bends, Apple acknowledges it. The point is treat the phone right and be careful. Treat it like the $1k device it is and you won’t have a problem.
Any bending was caused by excessive force to the point that it was less a bend than just a straight break. If it was the case that through extended use the thing did begin to show a curve/bend just by being in a pocket through reasonable use then there may be a point, but if nothing else there hasn’t been the time for that the have happened.
If you have a “bent” iPhone, then you are more likely to have just plain old broken it through completely unreasonable use, or in most cases by doing it on purpose because you’re an idiot.
With mass manufacturing, there is always the possibility of a defective unit and that’s probably what happened to those “9” devices Apple said were reported to them.
I’m not going to denounce any real issues, but come on man, bending the phone in your hands with all your might, is just stupid and completely unreasonable.
That’s like bitching about bending a screw driver while trying to pry something open with it.
Of course, this is Apple, so a failure rate of 9:10,000,000 is completely unforgivable. /s
No, there’s just no shortage of abject and careless boneheads out there who routinely mistreat their devices. I can pretty well guarantee these weren’t lemons, manufactured with a weakness to cause bending so much as mere rough mistreatment. My reaction was “only9? – I would expect at least a thousand idiot customer manhandled phones.”
iDiot? Lol…
Of course it’s horse***t. Where was the brouhaha over HTC’s phones that bent?
Apple has consistently attracted HATE mongering blowhards, before and after becoming the biggest and best company on the planet. Let’s face it: Apple make all the lazy wannabes look bad. Horsesh*t FUD mongering is the response of the desperately lame. Ancient history…
Steve himself couldn’t have said it better.
First, what does Steve have to do with it? The unhealthy obsession with making each iPhone thinner than the next is driven by Ive. As far as I’m concerned, Apple screwed up by not inserting more battery into the iPhone 6 and keeping it the same thickness as the 5S. NOBODY in the real world was asking for a thinner profile.
As for Legere — well, shock sells. Which is sad, because any asshat can use foul language. It takes true wit to disarm the competition without juvenile words.
Of course, as someone who uses the term ‘asshat’, you’d know that only too well.
The iP4S was 9.3mm, the 5S 7.6mm, the 6 6.9mm, and the 6+ 7.1mm, so the 6+ is .5mm thinner than a 5S, and the 6 .7mm; not a huge amount, and any issues can be easily remedied by not shoving your phone into the back pocket of a pair of tight-fitting jeans, then putting your fat ass on top of it when sitting on a hard surface.
My 6+, when I finally get it, will live inside an Otterbox, because it will live in a real world where things get dropped, get wet, and other forms of abuse.
This guy knows that Apple is the only thing that will keep his company running.
AT&T never had the benefit of being outside the castle walls. This guy know… And it makes me giddy.
Wow! I like that guy!
Oddly, he reminds me of someone I know in California who is easily one of the most creative and fun people I now, except my friend would NEVER throw out the expletives right and left. In a way, it points out to me how we can get caught up in speaking styles and miss the spirit inside the person. I’d easily be friends with Legere, knowing full well he’s going to be throwing me curve balls all day. He’s going to be fun to watch.
…creative and fun people I KNOW…
Thing is that it worked at least for now. The stock is below $100.00 as we write this. The bendgate issue, OS 8 0h 0h 1, the U2 give away, the delay of the release in China, and Jay Morrison’s posts about the watch being clunky along with the rest of the FUDster have charmed Whore Street and analycysts as it always does.
Heck if it wasn’t for those quarterly reports, all the profits and great products along with Apple fans reporting truth with honor and integrity the stock would be way lower than it is now.
Rest assured the stock will break over the $100 and then move forward under the wonderful leadership of Tim Cook.
Wow. Michael Keaton’s certainly looking good these days.
So: C/P
Don’t put it in your back pocket because you might sit and bent it
Don’t put it in your front pocket because you might walk/run/dance and bend it
Don’t put it in your bag/backpack because something inside might bend it
What’s next?
And they call it A MOBILE device. LOL
Better just leave in unboxed until the next iteration.
you sit on a galaxy and it won’t bend? really? why don’t you bring yours for me to try on?
IPhone 9 bend complaints out of 10 m.
To put that in perspective the Galaxy Gear Smart watch had 30% return rate (i.e for 10 m it would 3 MILLION returns). Now THAT is a real quality problem.
9 out of 10 m , they should be giving the iPhone awards for sturdiness.
Buy yourself a Galaxy and hump it all day long as far as I’m concerned. But ttt.
How many phones (take any phone, take all the phones) did bend in first few days (take even weeks) of use?
None, Zero!
How many iPhone 6?
2 in first 3 days
9 in first 6 days
…
You know math, don’t you – what is that progression?
Now calculate how many will go bent after a month or two or three. Good luck.
You are galactically stupid.
You’re ‘fuzzy’ math does NOT help you.
The phone has been out for a month now. How many MORE have been reported by FUDmeister like you?
9 times 100 divided by 10,000,000. That’s the number you are too confused to understand.
I cannot help you if the math is fuzzy for you and calling other stupid will not make you any smarter in that regard.
The iPhone is out for just over two weeks – a simple counting would have been suffice to know.
Don’t cling to a number 9 too much (and for too long) though, it will give you a false perception of things around you.
“How many phones (take any phone, take all the phones) did bend in first few days (take even weeks) of use?
None, Zero!”
lol
how do YOU know that?
samsung doesn’t release warranty returns.
for all I know there could be 1000 returned for bending, breaking etc.
we DO know that the Galaxy Gear had a 30% return rate (i.e 3 million out of 10 million) from leaked documents. So you put THAT against apple’s 9 out of 10 million and we can easily see which company actually has quality. C’mon go ahead tell me with a straight face: you think a company with 3 MILLION returns with one product has better quality than one with 9?
We also know that Square Trade the Gadget Insurer rates the iPhone 6 and 6 plus BETTER than some Samsung phones for resistance to breaking.
extremetech: “The iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, along with being the largest phones Apple has ever built, are also the toughest and most durable. Perhaps even more importantly, the iPhone 6 beats out the durability of other Android phones in the same class (the HTC One M8 and the Moto X), and the iPhone 6 Plus is the most rugged smartphone with a screen larger than five inches, beating out the Galaxy S5. This data comes from SquareTrade, a company that provides extended warranties and insurance for gadgets — and as you probably know, underwriters are very discerning people indeed.”
Square Trade sells INSURANCE, it will not be their advantage if they judge wrong selling policies for iPhone and then have them break, they will lose money…
Meanwhile the Unbox Therapy “bend gate” guy makes money being sensationalist and we already know from critics there is massive editing in his videos (some of the iPhones had ‘pre’ bends in them if you look carefully).
Oh believe me – we all would know if phones bent in the past as easy as iPhone 6.
Wow – didn’t knew Gear was sold in 10M copies.
Did these 30% returned spontaneously bent? No
Did they malfunction? No
Many were returned because people didn’t know they need to have a Galaxy phone with it. Seems like Gear 2 fairs better anyway.
You are clinging to the number 9 like it stayed that way from the Apple announcement. LOL.
So lets see what Squaretrade covers:
– Camera
– Power & Home button
– Touchscreen crack & malfunction
– Headphone Jack
– Battery
– Water damage
– Charging port
Oh – no bending?
I wonder why.
ExtremeTech?
No comparative testing between iPhone 6 and the rest?
No bend test? Right, move on.
“Wow – didn’t knew Gear was sold in 10M copies”
ah parsing semantics,
don’t be dense dude, earlier in my thread I already said it was relative : “To put that in perspective the Galaxy Gear Smart watch had 30% return rate (i.e for 10 m it would 3 MILLION returns)” It was just for easy comparison .. BUT…
if you want to nitpick (as you’ve already lost the argument) let me put it this way: 30% return for Galaxy Gear vs 0.00009 % for iPhone, which is in your mind do you think represents a company with quality issues? LOL.
you say:
“So lets see what Squaretrade covers:
– Camera
– Power & Home button
– Touchscreen crack & malfunction
– Headphone Jack
– Battery
– Water damage
– Charging port
Oh – no bending?
I wonder why.”
LOL LOL LOL
the ONLY thing that a phone durability is judged on is Bending????
so if the iPhone trashes the samsung, HTC etc stuff on all the rest it’s ok?
ANYHOW: SQUARE TRADE DID DO A BEND TEST!
Washington Post:
” For the first trial, SquareTrade asked two of the most physically fit members of its office to try and bend some phones.
“Employee Jessica Hoffman — a 5′ 4” pianist who, like her colleagues, “considers herself strong,” the company said — couldn’t make it budge, even when applying direct pressure to the weakest part of the phone, near the volume buttons. But her colleague Pace Lu, a bodybuilder and certified personal trainer who can bench 405 lbs., bent the phone ”
ONLY their BODYBUILDER tester could bend the phone.
The also did a sit test:
“SquareTrade sought out an employee wearing skinny jeans — in this case, Pourmeh Sarram, who is 5′ 10” and helpfully told The Post that he has a 31-inch waist. Sarram wedged the phone in his jeans pockets. Then SquareTrade had him sit in an office chair for 30 minutes with the phone in his front jeans pocket — mirroring a situation that a user described in a widely-circulated MacRumors post.
Sarram said this was “very uncomfortable.” SquareTrade also asked Sarram to do 10 squats with the phone in his pocket. But none of these situations managed to bend the phone in any way.”
ARE YOU HUMILIATED ENOUGH??
and you sarcastically said “Oh – no bending?
I wonder why.”
What are you IMPLYING? LOL! That Square trade INSURERS
are going to OVERLOOK bending IF IT WAS REALLY A PROBLEM with the iPhone, sell warranties and then LOSE MONEY on the claims? you nuts?
looks like you are dredging the bottom of the barrel of your arguments.
Again:
– Gear – Those 30% not defective.
– 9 in 10M in 6 days – Also not defective, it’s just they didn’t hold as well as they should and it could have happened with any of these 10M.
BTW – if those 9 were only iP6+ then you might have 9 in >1M.
Do you think the number (9) magically froze in time? LOL, Right.
– Only Bodybuilder and those kids in Apple store could have done it. I’m sorry but I don’t buy that ONLY a bodybuilder could bend it.
– Humiliated? By what? Your cherry-picked instances of defense?
You need to take off those iBlinkers.
– Squaretrade – Not implying anything – Just stating that a bent iPhone is (at least currently) NOT SOMETHING THEY COVER.
so why did they return all those stupid watches (to tune of many many times bend gate iPhones?) pure SUCKINESS?
you got back and forth with your numbers yet you can’t escape 30% vs 0.00009%.
c’mon which company has better quality control?
lol
BTW the ANTENNAGATE iPhone 4 had a return rate of 1.7% for All reasons (less than 1% customers called about antenna issues of all kinds in the max hype period of the ‘gate’ ) LOL. One more time compare THAT to 30% samsung gear returns.)
It hilarious you trying to hit on apple quality.
“Only Bodybuilder and those kids in Apple store could have done it. ”
one more time: speculation, without base. Could be samsung trolls with fake pictures…
we already know samsung does things like that, they admitted to making fake reviews, news items etc in the HTC lawsuit, apologize publicly, also fined by Asian governments.
Me, I got factual tests from an insurer etc.
“Your cherry-picked instances of defense?”
what cherry picked? I got , Square Trade, SEC verifiable claims by Apple , you got some pictures and astro turf crap from the internet.
I got numbers 30% vs 0.00009% to give perspective on what QUALITY means, you got gasping incoherence, by reading crap on the internet (with no factual backing of numbers ) it bends …
LOL, I keep trashing you backwards and forwards and you keep coming back for more.
LOL.