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I understand this is a problem and the phones shouldn't be susceptible to problems like this from normal use. Apple will probably just have to eat this one. The thing that annoys me a little is that if any other phone had a similar bending problem, nobody would give a hoot. In fact it looks like the HTC One had pretty much the same bend-ability[1]. That doesn't make what happened to these people's phones acceptable,…
Still holding out hope for the 2016 Macbook Pro keyboard class action and subsequent repair programs.
Finally got tired of random letters "n" missing in my text and got a PixelBook with Linux support as my new dev laptop.
This is Apple's modus operandi. The same thing happened with the early 2011 MBPros, which GPUs kept failing systematically, even after costly repairs. It took a class action lawsuit for them to start refunding repairs and provide an actual solution, but by then it was far too late.
My wife has a MacBook Air where the touch pad doesn't work, the screen has bright and darker spots and Wifi doesn't get any connection. It made me buy a Dell XPS13 after 15y of Apple. Then Dell proved they could do worse. Sorry for the rant. I just hate myself for spending $3500 on garbage.
It also had one of the most annoying touchpads I've ever used and the small bezel made me not want to use it for anything that took more than five minutes - for some reason programming especially was difficult. I'm not sure why, it just felt way more difficult to do on the 13.
I finally just bit the bullet and bought a surface laptop - I love everything about it. I'm on month three right now, no problems so far. Fingers crossed.
(I don't work for Dell or Microsoft)
This is Apple's modus operandi. The same thing happened with the early 2011 MBPros, which GPUs kept failing systematically, even after costly repairs. It took a class action lawsuit for them to start refunding repairs and provide an actual solution, but by then it was far too late.
Couldn't agree more after watching this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUaJ8pDlxi8 with detailed schematics and explanations.
I still think this was an over-dramatized problem.
If you eat/drink while working at a keyboard you can get stuff between the keys and either get them sticky or completely broken. Some actions can just cause issues but if you handle the thing properly then you have nothing to worry about.
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Or you could buy a business edition Windows laptop, with reliability that makes Apple laptops look like toys, and install whatever OS you want, and get the benefit of both worlds. All you have to give up to get a reliable product is the shiny Apple logo on the back of your screen.
All the manufacturers have their problems. It doesn‘t matter if you buy HP, Lenovo, Microsoft or Apple. If you want a low maintenance device you are probably best suited with Apple or Microsoft devices since you don‘t have to worry about driver updates and bloatware.
I have more issues with Windows 10 "updating" my printer drivers to versions with fewer features or replacing my working graphics drivers with versions that don't have any control panels. The only reason I still use Windows is to open Word documents.
And yet out of all the people I knew who owned an iPhone 6 from launch never dealt with the "bendgate" issue, including myself. That's from personal experience owning and using one daily for 3 years. I still think this was an over-dramatized problem. If you eat/drink while working at a keyboard you can get stuff between the keys and either get them sticky or completely broken. Some actions can just cause issues but i…
Those keyboards broke because of small dust particles, nothing related to liquids, people are using the laptops as before but this time the keyboards are to fragile.
The issue with Apple is that they sell products with defects and then refuse to replace them for free until they have to because of lawsuits.
Apple acknowledged that it made fragile phones that can bend, if you do not know people that had this issue does not mean that only a few people have issues, as you read in the article Apple made some changes in the way the phone is built to patch the problem, they would not have changed the production line for a few cases only,
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Where do you put your phone? I put mine in my pockets. It's not unusual for a fair amount of strain to be applied there.
I put mine in my pockets. I also exercise some intelligence and common sense in how I do it. It's not unusual for a fair amount of strain to be applied there. For you and other people, apparently not.
This is Apple's modus operandi. The same thing happened with the early 2011 MBPros, which GPUs kept failing systematically, even after costly repairs. It took a class action lawsuit for them to start refunding repairs and provide an actual solution, but by then it was far too late.
My wife has a MacBook Air where the touch pad doesn't work, the screen has bright and darker spots and Wifi doesn't get any connection. It made me buy a Dell XPS13 after 15y of Apple. Then Dell proved they could do worse. Sorry for the rant. I just hate myself for spending $3500 on garbage.
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Batteries exploding is a massively different circumstance than a largely-aesthetic¹ issue. ¹I never even heard of "touch disease" before this article, I didn't realize bendgate actually affected touch sensing in the slightest.
It's not just an aesthetic. It can cause a host of other electrical problems which can affect its basic use. Circuit boards aren't designed to be ductile.