“It seems that one ‘gate’ type scandal isn’t enough for Cupertino this time around,” Darren Allan reports for Betanews. “Following ‘bendgate’… we now have ‘hairgate.'”
“Apple’s new iPhone 6 isn’t causing folks to pull their hair out with frustration, it is just simply and literally pulling people’s hair out — or that’s the allegation,” Allan reports. “Apparently, the thin seam between the display glass and aluminum body is snagging on long hairs (and beard hairs, too) when people are making phone calls, and being yanked out when the handset is moved away from the caller’s face.”
Allan reports, “Others doubt whether this is a real issue, while slipping a gag in at the same time, of course. Jen Dudley-Nicholson noted: ‘Two weeks in and I have yet to experience iPhone 6 #Hairgate. Perhaps it’s a bald-faced lie?'”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: As with Microsoft’s upside-down and backwards Mac knockoff, although not as deeply entrenched, there is an industry dependent on Google’s inferior iOS wannabe. Said industry now clearly sees the writing on the wall and they don’t like what it says.
Android’s one big selling point – big displays – has evaporated. Increasingly desperate times call for increasingly desperate FUD. This one, though, is particularly laughable.
Our second-generation 64-bit A8-powered iPhone 6 and 6 Plus units can bend all day long while giving us haircuts and close shaves and you can have them…
…when you pry them from our cold, dead hands.
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Ah…First World problems.:)
Chuckle.
Don’t hold it like that…
Here’s to the hairy ones…
Finally, an advantage to being nearly bald….
Spend a little more time with your iPhone 6 and you will complete that balding process…!
Stop splitting hairs.
Hair today, gone tomorrow.
Perhaps Apple should increase the width of the gaps to match the business card slots in the Note 4?
Wonderful!
Superb 👏😎👏
As an inhabitant of Nevada City, California, this is especially relevant. Big fat beards are hip!
Quick, someone create the “iSalon app” to monetize this new feature… 🙂
couldn’t be static of course.
http://www.loopinsight.com/2014/10/07/hairgate-bullshit/
I have never had this problem, and can’t imagine it being a problem after inspecting it closely. For the most part I always use my phone with an Apple headset anyway, always have. Not to mention you’re holding a flat device against your round head; the edges shouldn’t even touch you.
Karl Pilkington would never have this problem.
This “HAIR” issue has been around since the first iPhone. I remember reports that this happened back then. I suspect every modern phone model has had hair caught in one of it’s seems.
It’s like the dead fish at the bottom of the barrel. When you have nothing left, pull out the hair FUD. I personally have never experienced this.
With the Samsung Galaxy Note 4, you actually have whole locks and braids stuck in the canyon crack between the screen and body of their phone, a feature I might add. Turn on the vibrator and you have a Remington electric razor.
I’ve never had any such problems. I can’t imagine why?
A good tonic will help with that. I got some in the back of my wagon.
Someone at work brought that up to me yesterday. So, I pulled out my 6plus and we both tried to figure out how it would even be possible. There’s no hair thin enough to fit or get caught like they’re claiming. He’d originally bought this story, but confronted with the contra-evidence, said “why do people come up with stuff like that.” And, I told him they were probably paid by Samsung, who’ve been caught doing this sort of thing before.
It’s a feature. No more time wasted on shaving.
I ordered my iPhone 6 yesterday 🙂
I got a chance to play with an iPhone Plus today for a bit. WOW! What a nice piece of hardware! I’m very impressed with what Apple was able to do. The screen clarity is noticeable immediately and the reduced glare when used in the sun was significant.
Wish I had hair to get caught in it…. 🙁
This is one of the first things I noticed upon using my new iPhone 6 for the first time. I thought I was ridiculous to complain about the fact that the phone kept pulling out my beard hairs, and just sort of laughed it off. The case I got for my phone ended up solving this issue. It’s a pretty unique frustration, nonetheless.
If your phone has a gap between the glass and the aluminium case big enough to actually catch human hair, it is defective and should be replaced (as it is under warranty). You may not care about this, but when the time comes to upgrade it to iPhone 7 (plus), the prospective next owner of your phone may be concerned about this gap.
Like anyone will remember, or care, even in six months, let alone two years.
How much are Samsung paying you?
For such a feeble effort, it can’t be very much.
???
The point is, iPhone 6 (plus) is supposed to be (and it apparently largely is) a perfectly seamlessly designed device, and everyone who already has it can attest that there is no gap whatsoever between the metal and the glass. Since iPhone is manufactured by humans (albeit with an automated process), it is just possible that ever-so-tiny fraction of the massive production run of tens of millions of devices ends up manufactured slightly outside of the extremely rigorous tolerances set by Apple. Such a device should be returned to Apple, which will happily replace it with a perfectly smooth one.
While it is possible that no-one will remember in six months (or a year; two years is way too long to wait for the next model of iPhone), the defect is still a defect, and when you are dealing with the company known worldwide with the most stellar customer (and warranty) service, you may as well take advantage of that.
Case closed. :^)
Ever since I began wearing a shower cap and shaved my rugged beard, I’ve had no issues. 😉 What a crock!
So… that’s why the enormous and growing cracks in the Samsung phones. It’s to prevent the beard snags!
Engineering triumph!
Samsung misunderstood Apple’s hair snagging genius. This ability to grab hair is Apple’s beta test of the new Apple iHang Handsfree approach to talking on your iPhone 6. Just hang it by your ear on your hair or beard and talk away while you drive, cook, or jog.
man, gettin’ a whisker caught in an iPhone crack might be worse than gettin’ ebola….hope this is covered by my ObolaCare, be careful out there!
Even I think this is just silly.
Now you are talking.
Never thought I’d do this but I gave you 5 stars for that. Well said.
I have been running my iPhone 6 through the thin hair on my head, and the course beard on my face from the first sentence of this article through the last comment – no snags…. ☺️
Wash you hair and try again! (Joke)
Hair I thought I had heard everything. This cracks me up.
Idea: Put your iPhone into vibrate mode, have a service call you ever day at 6 am, pick up the call without answering and give yourself a shave. Brilliant!
FUDgate, the media analcysts desperately looking for a reason to justify their existence.
First world problem indeed. What a head shaker.
Does it work on nose hairs?
I’m waiting for the next trend on “gate” creators of this FUD are tagged as “IDIOTGATE”.
I think this scandal will be hair today, gone tomorrow personally.
Hairy Head… there is an App for that!!
If you’re taking close-ups be aware of “pubic-hair-gate”.
The guy who did this in the YouTube video should be worried about BUTTHAIRGATE, since he most definitely pulled this idea out of his a$$.
http://techcrunch.com/2014/09/30/samsung-galaxy-note-4-suffering-from-gapgate/?ncid=rss