Posted on 09/26/2014 1:35:24 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
I wonder if the insurance they peddle covers that.
I’ve never been much on having to be the absolute first, so I’ve tended to wait myself. Only exception was a 1st gen iPad, which I still have. Still on an iPhone 4S. Desktop isn’t the latest and greatest Mac either, but it’s more than adequate for my purposes. Would I love a Pro tower? Sure. Not in my budget though.
Who, Samsung?
I could just as easily flip around what you’re saying by pointing out that your side of the argument is akin to the left wing ignoring and covering up the same behavior in their candidates but making the same behavior by a conservative into a pressing national issue.
“Antennagate”? It was shown that any cellphone not in a case of that era that was gripped in the same fashion would suffer similar signal attenuation (some more, some less). It wasn’t treated a big deal for any other phone, but we were treated to non-stop coverage about the issue on the iPhone 4. Because, Apple.
Now with “Bendgate” (or whatever), we see that why yes, any “phablet” subjected to the same kind of stress will show some bending, and in fact some other models suffered worse damage (with screen breakage, for example). But we get bombarded with images of the same handful of iPhones that show the problem. Because, Apple.
Now, in the case of the antenna issue, Apple did a mea cupla more or less to just put the bad PR cycle to rest. But they also designed future phones with an antenna redesigned to avoid the problem in the future. I imagine that they’ll look at these few, isolated incidents of bending and see if future designs can be altered to reinforce the (relative) weak point.
So why does only Apple get the bad press for “issues” that affect their competitors as well? For one, a not-insignificant portion of the tech press is “in bed” with Apple’s competitors, often not disclosing their ties to these competitors when writing negative articles about Apple. Because of Apple’s large market cap, they’re also a target for the stock manipulators at Forbes, Motley Fool, Seeking Alpha, and the like. And finally, as one of the more recognizable and popular brands, an anti-Apple headline draws hits, not in small part from Apple haters who love reveling in bad news for Apple despite such bad news applying equally to their favored brand.
Either one. When you get a phone plan they try to sell insurance incase you lose it or break it.
Flexible, very flexible!
Other than a puppy chewing up my last flip phone I’ve never had a problem. Some people are forever breaking their phones and it might make sense for them. Me, I don’t do it.
Yeah, I may carry my phone in my pocket, but not my back pocket.
I had a Motorola flip phone that fell out of my pocket while I was working on a truck. He took off and there was my phone ground into the gravel having just been run over by a load of logs. Funny thing was it still could make and receive calls. Screen was shot and battery drained extremely quick but could still communicate.
“It’s very devious of Apple to “cover it up” in plain sight, plastered all over every blog, internet news site and all social media, lol.”
1st the attempt at covering it up. Which failed because it became a huge story. A number of Apple fans outright claimed that everyone that had an example were lying.
Then the attempt at covering for it by grabbing phones and trying to bend them. This is where we are now.
Step three will be Apple offering refunds and exchanges. all the while having their cult shake their fists and curse all of the Apple “haters” for not letting this go away like they wanted.
I loved my old Razr. Doubt I’d love it now, but I did then. It worked intermittently even after being chewed up.
You really have a complex about this, VanDeKoik. These phones haven’t been out long enough for attempted “coverup” followed by some campaign to call people liars followed by huge media coverage. The claim of the first bent phone was all over the media right off the bat.
And those manipulative, evil b-tards, do you really think they’ll stoop to offering a replacement phone for those who experienced a problem? Why, that’s just awful, it’s, it’s ... no fair!
I’m always impressed when I see people using phones with no protective casing... I drop phones all the time. An otterbox saved my phone from water damage after I threw my old iphone 4 into a lake, and even though I now use sleeker cases on my iphone 5, the spigen screen protector has saved the glass. Last week my best friend finally traded up from a flip phone to a new Galaxy... you bet I talked him into investing in a case.
I just keep forgetting, and the phone is so much slimmer, lighter and easier to deal with, without the protective case. Like I said, I hope I don’t end up regretting it.
So, what this proves is that the iPhone is just as crappy as all the others out there.
Why pay more for the same thing you can get cheaper elsewhere?
Nokia Lumia 1520 is bigger than the iPhone 6 Plus and it doesn’t bend.
While it’s not as if any Windows Phone is a serious competitor in the so-called “phablet” space, I’ll bite. As far as the Nokia Lumia 1520, there have been problems with too much flex in the screen, screen sensitivity, tap & scroll issues, and battery drain issues related to overheating.
Which is more serious, the above or an admittedly rare problem with the chassis remaining bent when placed in the back pocket and sat upon as with the iPhone 6+?
An unbiased observer would say that Nokia has the bigger set of problems.
An unbiased observer doesn’t write headlines for tech issues.
I take this answer to be avoidance of agreeing.
On the contrary, my point is simply that “Apple” sells headlines, so anything that can have “Apple” attached to it is major news (even if it’s not an Apple-only thing) whereas Nokia could completely screw the pooch and get naught but a footnote. Because no one cares.
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