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.
“I’m pretty sure that Apple will be hearing a lot more about “bendgate” in the coming months.”
Actually I’m pretty sure not. This will be more like the “scandalous” purple fringing with the iPhone 5s camera, which turned out to be a complete non-issue.
Apple stated they have an entire six complaints about bending, out of millions of phones sold.
I do wish I had unlimited capital for my good ideas, as I think a titanium 6 Plus case would sell like hotcakes, and would be generally a good thing anyhow. :-)
Regardless of any of that, if you get insurance on your phone (not a bad idea) you will get no-questions-asked replacement...
It really does not matter where the 90-110 pounds of force are applied on the back of the iPhone 6 Plus, it will still fail at the weakest point when the failure stress of that point exceeds its ability to resist the force. The point was to make comparable stresses between comparable products on points that would be under stress. The ends and anywhere on the back were sufficient. Yes, the pounds of force at the point of failure differs slightly from the actual pressure point where it is being applied and measured, but that is irrelevant. The same is true for every other phone tested. What is important is that the overall device failed at that level of stress.
By-the-way, what do you fail understand about an equivalent design made out of the same materials of the same thickness, with a larger format, where it could easily be damaged by similar forces, that has been on the market for almost a year without similar complaints being an analog for comparison? I think they are quite good to compare and ask why there are no bent iPad Air reports.
Incidentally, Daniel Eran Dilger, in an article published day before yesterday pointed out something everyone else has missed. The video of the guy bending his IPhone 6 Plus that has garnered over 40 million hits and over $300,000 for him, besides having some serious timeline issues, shows that the phone looks absurdly small in relation to the hands of guy bending it. He strains quite a bit doing it, too. But the point Dilger makes is that the guy's hands are huge, dwarfing the iPhone 6 Plus, making look more like an iPhone 5s. I have large hands with a nine inch span, thumb to pinky. I placed my hands on an iPhone 6 Plus in a similar position and compared his hands to mine. His hands were easily 50% larger than mine. Talk about ham handed! And he was straining to bend it.