Apple applies the falling-cat method to keep dropped iPhone intact

SiliconBeat ^ | June 2, 2016 | By Ethan Baron

[smokingfrog]

He was doin' the funky chicken.

[Celerity]

“We will give Apple engineers the benefit of the doubt and assume they weren’t inspired to create new drop-protection technology for iPhones by throwing cats out of a fourth-story window.”

It was chinese workers. Chinese workers, not cats that took a dive out the window.

[Rastus]

Hollywood being out of ideas, MacGyver is coming to TV this fall. Seriously.

[Rastus]

It looks like Al Gore doing a John McEnroe impersonation.

[Rastus]

It was Chinese workers preparing the main ingredient for mu shu “pork.”

[PapaBear3625]

“the next big Iphone move will be to have a cut off of signal on your command so you can’t be tracked unless you want to be. Ill buy one.”

It’s called the power off button ...

CNN: How the NSA can 'turn on' your phone remotely

[zeugma]

Yeah, I tried to patent that as a perpetual motion machine. The patent office didn’t go for it.

[GingisK]

Just put peanut butter on one side.

[fishtank]

[WENDLE]

Really— that make sense. .THANK YOU !!!! AIRPLANE MODE

[abishai]

[generally]

I could live with that. It’s the hairballs I’m worried about.

[Swordmaker]

My understanding is that tempered glass, will withstand impact on it's face, but will shatter if struck on it's edge. Do smartphones use something other than tempered glass? If not, then the reporters knows not of what he speaks, but then that would no be a surprise.

iPhones still use Gorilla Glass by Corning, as they have since the very first iPhone came out. Apple toyed with the concept of switching to Sapphire but the company that was growing the boules was only getting a 10-15% success rate on their 240 pound boules. That was insufficient for production and economical runs. Apple required 90% successful boule production for it to be economical and competitive and even then the screens would cost twice as much as the Gorilla Glass. Some Android phones are using plastic. . . and a couple are using Sapphire.

[Swordmaker]

What was that doofus in the picture doing with his phone? Just from the expression on his face I don’t think he deserves an iPhone. ;)

He looks as if he's just been shot in the gut. . .

[Swordmaker]

CNN: How the NSA can 'turn on' your phone remotely

What that article doesn't tell you is how they got that software onto the baseband chip in the first place. There isn't much room on the baseband chip to add anything and it is isn't programable from the exterior. Ergo, they have to invade the basic phone with something that can re-write the firmware of the baseband chip from the basic phone. Not easy to do with an iPhone. . . and to do it they'd need physical possession of the iPhone and the user's passcode.

[Sergio]

Thank you for the informative answer.