No, Adorno, you're wrong. There are many reports of other large format PHABLET type phones bending and/or breaking when undue stress has been applied to them. Many such photographs of damaged phablets from pre-iPhone 6 bend gate have been posted showing them. It is not just the iPhone 6 plus. . . nor is it a false test. They even posted photos of an iPhone 4s bent in the same manner. The falseness came in the original YouTube video where there were some games played with timelines.
For the past year iPad Airs have been on the market. They are made of the same material with the same curved sides as the iPhone 6 Plus and they about the same in thickness. Ask yourself this question. Where are all the reports of bent iPad Airs where people have fallen asleep and rolled on them? I've done it myself. Or sat on them? Ditto. Or stepped on them? I've avoided doing that. Broken screens, yes. Not mine, thank goodness. Bent? Nope. No large numbers of complaints. The buttons reach the same distance from the top as the iPhone 6, giving a far longer moment of lever to the bottom, but we have no reports in large numbers of bent iPads. The distance across the width of the iPad Air is about the same as the phone. Then the iPad Mini. . . even thinner. WHERE are all the bent iPad minis???? Apple has years of experience building thin devices. There should have been tons of bent devices before this. Why not?
The argument is not about iPad Airs. It’s about the iPHone 6+ vs the competition.
The iPHone 6 test done by CR is a farce. It didn’t test for bending where the buttons are on the phone. Testing towards the middle is not going to yield the same results as what is being reported by “regular use” by the purchasers. Regular use includes putting them inside pants pockets. Simulating the test using completely different criteria is not going to yield the same results.
But, you can go ahead and remain in denial and go on about showing your love for your iStuff and Apple. People need to know the truth, and the tests don’t address the truth.
I’m pretty sure that Apple will be hearing a lot more about “bendgate” in the coming months.