Wo! Baby! Your phone practically exploded? Holy sweet child o mine! What
the heck did you do to it!? Goodness! Gracious! OK, now that! is bad!
LOL!
Chris.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Travis Siegel" <tsie...@softcon.com>
To: "OS X & iOS Accessibility" <mac-access@mac-access.net>
Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2015 2:43 PM
Subject: Re: [Mac-access]: Let's be totally realistic: IPhone 6
and6+bending?
Whether it's a bunch of people trying to put a class action suit on apple
or not is immaterial. I'm sorry, but when you spend as much money on a
phone as the Iphone costs, you really don't expect it to bend, regardless
of whether it's in your back pocket, front pocket, side pocket, or no
pocket. The problem is, apple should have planned for this, and the fact
that they didn't simply means they're getting a bit lax about their
testing. It's all well and good to tell people not to do something, but
you know as well as I do, that doesn't work.
How many times have you been told on a mailing list to trim extraneous
text from your replies, and how many of us actually do so?
Apple also advised folks not to use the macbooks on your lap, as they do
tend to get hot, but folks are still doing that too.
It's not a people using the phone issue, it's an apple engineering issue.
I know from experience that bending the Iphone will indeed cause it to
break, I had an iphone 3g or 3gs (don't know which one it was) that
happily exploded when it got dropped, the whole front glass just popped
right off, the circuit board broke in half, and it leaked acid all over
the place. I still have the (unbroken) glass if anyone wishes to validate
my story. Obviously, I couldn't keep the rest of the phone, because it
was releasing toxic fumes into the air, so it needed trashed (outside)
And, this one was inside a case when it fell (aprox 3 feet off a desk).
I've never heard of this sort of thing happening before, but the whole
thing with the Iphone 6 jst underscores the problem companies have when
building consummer devices, testing needs to be exhaustive, and yes, that
includes putting them in pockets, suitcases, leaving them outside, and all
manner of things folks are going to do with them when they own them. Is
it apple's fault folks carry phones in their back pockets? No, but you
can't tell me that apple doesn't know people do this, so whether they
recommend it or not, it needs to be allowed for when the device is
designed, because it's a fairly common practice. If you're not going to
engineer for it, then you need to put disclaimers or warnings on the
packaging, advising folks not to do this. I'm fairly confident apple's
packaging and instructions don't have any clauses in them advising folks
not to carry the iphone 6 in their back pockets. If they're going to
claim it's not their fault, then they need to provide some r
eason why it isn't, and just saying people are idiots is *not* a defense,
if it were, there'd be a whole lot less lawsuits in this world.
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