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'Hairgate': iPhone hit by new social media storm
ASIAONE ^
| Wednesday, Oct 08, 2014
| Reuters
Posted on 10/08/2014 10:00:50 AM PDT by WhiskeyX
Fresh from the online uproar over whether the shiny new iPhone 6 bends when carried around in pockets, Apple has been hit by a new complaint - that the handset traps users' hair or beards when they make calls. It is difficult to gauge whether there is any real issue, but Twitter users have made #hairgate a rising social media trend, leading major news outlets to pounce on the story.
RELATED STORIES Companies poke fun at iPhone 6 over #bendgate Apple's most compelling new iPhones After a week with the iPhone 6 Plus, I can't love it Moving stuff from your old iPhone to the iPhone 6/6 Plus "The seam on my iPhone 6 where the aluminium meets the glass is definitely catching my hair and pulling it out," one user tweeted. Bearded iPhone users have jumped on the bandwagon complaining that their facial hair gets yanked during calls, leading to spats over whether to treat #beardgate as a separate trend, or simply as a subset of #hairgate.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: apple; iphone6
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posted on
10/08/2014 10:00:50 AM PDT
by
WhiskeyX
To: WhiskeyX
Solution: Get a haircut and a shave!...................
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posted on
10/08/2014 10:02:57 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
To: WhiskeyX
Sans Jobs, The Apple his Rotting.
3
posted on
10/08/2014 10:03:00 AM PDT
by
Hostage
(ARTICLE V)
To: Red Badger
isn’t that what the iPhone 6 is for in those photographs?
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posted on
10/08/2014 10:08:01 AM PDT
by
WhiskeyX
To: WhiskeyX
Probably happened to one person. The rest just want to be a victim.
5
posted on
10/08/2014 10:11:35 AM PDT
by
AlaskaErik
(I served and protected my country for 31 years. Progressives spent that time trying to destroy it.)
To: WhiskeyX
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posted on
10/08/2014 10:12:22 AM PDT
by
ChildOfThe60s
((If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there)
To: WhiskeyX
Ebola, ISIS, now the new iPhone snagging the occasional hair - the world is spinning out of control.
To: Red Badger
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posted on
10/08/2014 10:27:28 AM PDT
by
C210N
(When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
To: Hostage
Right after the Apple Maps disaster I knew they would they would continue to have problems. Until they get a new leader like Jobs They will continue to have problems.
9
posted on
10/08/2014 10:28:03 AM PDT
by
matt04
To: WhiskeyX
It traps a beard?
That’s a feature.
Married Homos are gonna want this thing...
10
posted on
10/08/2014 10:29:21 AM PDT
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
To: WhiskeyX
There are much more important things to worry about!!!
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posted on
10/08/2014 10:40:12 AM PDT
by
illiac
(If we don't change directions soon, we'll get where we're going)
To: WhiskeyX
I demand a settlement. My iPhone - if I had an iPhone - is a hazard to pulling out my beard - if I had a beard. They owe me money.
To: Billthedrill
Don’t forget the cat and the dog....oh the inhumanity!
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posted on
10/08/2014 10:47:59 AM PDT
by
WhiskeyX
To: WhiskeyX
Every time I see some mouth-breathing, dull-normal camping in line to be one of the first to buy some new toy I think,
“Don’t they know that final UAT is done in the customer location?”
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posted on
10/08/2014 10:52:01 AM PDT
by
muir_redwoods
("He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative." G.K .C)
To: WhiskeyX
Meh, my iPhone 4s pulls out facial hairs on occasion, when they get caught in the cover. My Droid did the same thing, as did the two flip phones I had before them.
Can't think of anything more trivial than this to complain about.I mean, where's my money?
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posted on
10/08/2014 10:54:22 AM PDT
by
IYAS9YAS
(Has anyone seen my tagline? It was here yesterday. I seem to have misplaced it.)
To: WhiskeyX
Oh, good grief! Someone has complained on Twitter that his or her iPhone 6 is pulling hair out by catching their hair when holding the iPhone up to their ears in the joint between the screen and the frame. I cannot see an appreciable gap with a 10x Jeweler's loupe. . . certainly not more than any previous iPhones. I call this absurd FUD! This strikes me as a response from Samsung's marketing department to counter "Gapgate" where people are complaining about the gap between the screen and frame wide enough to hold business cards on the new Samsung Galaxy Note 4 phone that collects dirt, oil, and crud. PING!
Hair Pulling Apple iPhone 6 FUD Ping!
If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.
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posted on
10/08/2014 10:57:59 AM PDT
by
Swordmaker
(This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
To: WhiskeyX; ~Kim4VRWC's~; 1234; Abundy; Action-America; acoulterfan; AFreeBird; Airwinger; Aliska; ...
Oh, good grief! Someone has complained on Twitter that his or her iPhone 6 is pulling hair out by catching their hair when holding the iPhone up to their ears in the joint between the screen and the frame. I cannot see an appreciable gap with a 10x Jeweler's loupe. . . certainly not more than any previous iPhones. I call this absurd FUD! This strikes me as a response from Samsung's marketing department to counter "Gapgate" where people are complaining about the gap between the screen and frame wide enough to hold business cards on the new Samsung Galaxy Note 4 phone that collects dirt, oil, and crud. PING!
Hair Pulling Apple iPhone 6 FUD Ping!
If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.
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posted on
10/08/2014 10:59:32 AM PDT
by
Swordmaker
(This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
To: Swordmaker
This strikes me as a response from Samsung's marketing department to counter "Gapgate"...Bush's Samsung's fault?
To: WhiskeyX
Wow, the Apple competitors are REALLY getting desperate. Their FUD (i.e., PR campaigns to spread Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt) no longer engenders much beyond mild amusement. What will they do now?
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posted on
10/08/2014 11:19:18 AM PDT
by
House Atreides
(ANOTHER CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICAN FOR CHILDERS 2014 .... Don't reward bad GOPe behavior.)
To: Hostage
“Sans Jobs, The Apple his Rotting.”
Indeed. The minute I finished Walter Isaacson’s “Jobs” biography it was evident to me that Apple was doomed to soon become just another company like GM, Microsoft, HP, etc.
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posted on
10/08/2014 11:32:33 AM PDT
by
catnipman
(Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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