The iPhone 6 Review

Post by drzaiusapelord » Tue, Sep 30, 2014, 5:46 PM UTC

karmelapple wrote: post #110

drzaiusapelord wrote: post #33

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This is classic bikeshedding. A lot of mobile device reviews are pretty unsophisticated, so there's a lot of spilled ink about button location, how the metal/plastic feels, etc. Its a strange regression. Like we just can't judge or weigh the complexity of a modern mobile OS and all its services and apps and just take on this simplified, "Uh, it looks nice" point of view. Strange that even a hard-nosed tech site like…

You've argued that the tech is "fine," which means it's commoditized. Commoditized parts don't get mentioned in reviews. (I don't know what USB driver is in my laptop because who cares? It's a commodity) What is left, then, other than device ergonomics, appearance, and other things that differentiate devices?

Post by cheshire137 » Tue, Sep 30, 2014, 6:15 PM UTC

georgespencer wrote: post #19

stevewepay wrote: post #14

I've had the iPhone 6 since Sept 19. In the 10 days since then, I've shattered the screen, when it slipped out of my pocket as I got out of a chair, and bent the phone just yesterday, after putting it in my back pocket and sitting down on it (and then immediately getting up when I realized what I did). Let me tell you that the bending issue is very real. My phone isn't bent like those consumer reports videos, but it…

> after putting it in my back pocket and sitting down on it > the bending issue is very real I'd suggest that the issue is that you're a guy who thinks sitting on $1,000 of glass and aluminium is a normal thing to do.

Post by umsm » Tue, Sep 30, 2014, 6:22 PM UTC

CountSessine wrote: post #100

vegashacker wrote: post #30

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Any chance of Apple covering the bending issue free of charge? I'd actually expect them to if you took it into an Apple Store.

"I sat on my phone! Can I have a new one?" "I fed my phone to my dog! Can I have a new one?" "I dropped my phone out of my car! Can I have a new one?" "My phone fell into a commercial smoothie blender! Can I have a new one?"

Post by sliverstorm » Tue, Sep 30, 2014, 6:59 PM UTC

CountSessine wrote: post #95

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He didn't say it was normal. We stick things in our pockets and forget about them. It happens. This is where the marketing concept of "life-proof" comes from. Shit happens. Day-to-day consumer devices are going to get bumped, dropped, damp, sat on, etc. If the iPhone can't handle those things, the answer isn't "Be more careful you idiots", the answer is people will (presumably) stop buying them.

"life-proof", as in "sitting down on a hard chair with your 6 inch smartphone in your back jeans pocket", conflicts with the clear and unmistakable consumer preference for "big and thin". In FantasyLand, engineers could create phones with 8 inch displays that were still somehow useable with one hand, and you could run over them with your car ("life-proof" - oopsies!) and they'd be ok. In the meantime, put your money…

Post by axlprose » Tue, Sep 30, 2014, 7:14 PM UTC

jabberwock wrote: post #2

Curious to see no mention of the bending controversy given the huge furore about it(regardless of whether it's actually true or not). If the reviewer thought it was a non-issue, he could have written a single sentence clarifying the same.