A Design Defect Is Breaking iPhone 6 Pluses

Post by Grue3 » Tue, Sep 06, 2016, 1:57 PM UTC

sangnoir wrote: post #75

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While all us non-americans can gloat about what great consumer protection laws we have (and I'm very happy about them as a consumer!) it's not for no reason that all cool stuff is made by americans. They have the state of Delaware, and they have the government who prioritize business before social issues. Correlated (and if you ask me, causative (is that a word?)) is that most impressive companies and products are in…

> it's not for no reason that all cool stuff is made by americans Damn straight - American TV's sure are the coolest of all!

Post by sbuk » Tue, Sep 06, 2016, 2:01 PM UTC

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It did work just fine, it actually had the best antenna of any phone on the market at the time - dramatic improvement on the previous models. Yeah it lost signal when held wrong but was still superior to other phones. http://www.anandtech.com/show/3794/the-iphone-4-review/2

> Yeah it lost signal when held wrong but was still superior to other phones. My definition of 'superior' doesn't involve having to hold a phone a particular way for it to make a call.

Post by ebbv » Tue, Sep 06, 2016, 2:01 PM UTC

makomk wrote: post #51

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Read my comment again, I was positing perhaps the author of the article talked to 100 repair shops. Yes, there are certainly more repair shops than that worldwide. I was just drawing a line from what data the article has to what we could guess from it reasonably, each step trying to give the benefit of the doubt to the problem being as widespread as we can infer from the article. Number of google results for a keywor…

There's no particular reason to think that the repair shops which the author of the article chose to speak to are special in any way, so it's reasonable to assume that all the other repair shops are seeing similar numbers. It's definitely not reasonable to assume that the only iPhones that are failing are the ones served by that handful of repair shops.

Post by germanier » Tue, Sep 06, 2016, 2:03 PM UTC

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No, they seem to about comparable i think. Electronics is generally ok priced here. I have no idea about apple prices in general, but a "Apple iPhone 6s Plus 128GB Sølv (Silver)" is approx 1257 USD including 25% VAT. That is about 1/3 of an average monthly salary here, maybe a bit less. Edit: country is Norway

For comparison: it's $949 + sales tax in the US, and 1075€ ($1200) in Germany, including 19% VAT. So the German price without VAT is the same as the Norwegian without VAT. Mandatory warranty in Germany is 2 years, where in the first six months the manufacturer has to prove that it wasn't defective when they sold it to you if they want to dispute your claim. After six months, there's a reversal in the burden of proof,…

Post by akerro » Tue, Sep 06, 2016, 2:06 PM UTC