“The outspoken CEO of Foxconn Technology Group, the maker of Apple’s iPhone 6 Plus, is scoffing at the idea that the iPhone Plus has a problem with bending if left in a user’s pocket too long, and said rivals were behind the controversy,” Michael Kan reports for PCWorld.
“‘How can a phone bend? This was all caused by distortions from competitors. Don’t blindly listen to it,’ Foxconn’s CEO Terry Gou said in news footage posted online this Tuesday,” Kan reports. “Smartphone rivals including Samsung and LG mocked Apple on Twitter over the controversy.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Stating the obvious.
As we wrote when this fuckery first erupted: If ‘bending’ is all Apple’s iPhone 6 Plus rivals have left, they’re roadkill.
Samsung, Google, etc. are staring down into the abyss and they have no answers.
The amount of FUD directed at a product is proportional to the level of rivals’ fear.
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Lmfao “fuckery”.
For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge -ery? The abuse of the English language continues.
Ok, now let’s talk about the samsung galaxy 4 bendgate and credit card holdergate… and the media silence in 3…2…1…
because Samsung doesn’t bring in hits, for hit whores.
Doesn’t Foxconn make products for Apple competitors, or doesn’t Foxconn stand to lose a little something if they do bend? Wouldn’t you expect the Foxconn CEO to say this?
We’d expect Foxconn to say absolutely nothing if bendgate was real in any form.
OTOH, we’ll always expect someone not registered on MDN with a name like “Bob” to question or doubt anything that’s positive about Apple.
Bob, perhaps what he says is the truth.
How’s that Android piece of shit you have stuck in your ear?
it’s Perfect, just like the brown zune piece of earwax he has stuck in his… well, you know
Would the person who did the original iPhone vid or an Android publication saying it be enough for you? Well you can always check them out and question their motives if you like.
“Wouldn’t you expect the Foxconn CEO to say this?”
Well yes, of course. But that it would be expected doesn’t mean it’s not true. See Consumer Reports findings. Also a wonderful dismissal from T-Mobile CEO’s – and they sell many kinds of phones.
And let’s apply the same sentence to Samsung. So I don’t understand what are you ultimately trying to imply.
Didn’t your mother tell you, “don’t believe anything your hear, only half of what you see, and never, ever believe a rumor you didn’t start yourself.” 🙂
The whole Bendgate thing was hysteria run amok. But there is a new reality for iPhone users in that iPhone 6 and especially 6 Plus require more care when handling than 5/5s due to their thinner frames combined with the larger surface area. It might have made more sense if Apple used the high quality plastic from iPhone 5c for these bigger phones.
D2
I guess liquid metal was a no go.
Next year, Apple will introduce another new iPhone.
And there will be another -gate. I guarantee it. There always is one.
——RM
Samsung is the biggest bent bender on planet earth.
“The amount of FUD directed at a product is proportional to the level of rivals’ fear.”
MDN getting all mathematical.
And I sense the correctness of this statement, observing the jittery agitation of those in the juggernaut’s path and the litter of crushed remains in its wake