iPhone 6 Plus Bending - What Apple isn't Telling You #Helpful Post

and it is the talk of the tech world

bendgate almost a week after the debut

of its new iPhones Apple continues to

face complaints about the unintended

flexibility of its plus-sized minute

we're gonna see more of them come out

over the next few hours as this story

bendgate picks up and gets more viral

than Apple aren't gonna take

responsibility for this they'll probably

give out some very sensible advice but

then here comes the endgame

so it started out with a few users

complaining that their new iphone

six-plus had bent in their pocket from

there some dude on the internet with a

backwards hat who I know and can

personally call a friend decided to test

that on video the media ate it up and

didn't hesitate for a second to make a

story out of it and as more and more did

the video went viral but then came the

controversy the unbox therapy video was

fake the iPhone six-plus didn't really

bend that way and once again media

jumped on it answer the Ben gates

conspiracy with normal use a bend in

iPhone is extremely rare and through our

first six days of sale a total of nine

customers have contacted Apple with a

bent iPhone 6 plus as with any Apple

product if you have any questions please

contact Apple from there Consumer

Reports came out with the official bend

test and determined that the iPhone 6

and 6-plus we're not as bendy as

believed once again Media jumped on it

and dismissed any potential iPhone

six-plus bending problems and the story

right not so much there's a few things

that Apple and the media will never tell

you now let me start off by saying that

I don't think the iPhone six-plus

bending problem is as big as some have

made it out to be it's not gonna

automatically bend out of the box in

your pocket but I also don't think it

should be dismissed and taken as lightly

as some others have if you watch my

buddy márquez's video he explains that

phones bending are not new and he's

right older iPhones have bent Android

phones have bent hell even blackberry

and windows phones have bent but bending

isn't specifically the problem if you've

watched any iPhone 6 plus bend test

video they all have one thing in common

they bend in the exact same spot and

expose a structural weak point in the

phone now while media jumped on the

conspiracy train and suggested that

loose video was fake or hoax they

completely ignored other videos and

pictures that yielded these same results

when the consumer report video came out

and dismissed a problem everyone was all

yeah there's too white yes science but

there was a flaw in their testing they

applied pressure directly in the middle

of the phone's completely ignoring the

weak point of these six plus if they

wanted to be super scientific they

should have used three sets of phones

and tested at three different points

this actually hit reddit recently and

user Alerus for noted that the iphone

six-plus bending is caused by the

reinforcement or lack thereof inside the

phone behind the volume buttons

if you check out iFixit stare down the

metal reinforcement ends with a screw

leaving the body prone to stress it's

not about how much force must be applied

and if a pocket will do the trick or not

it's just that under a particular type

of flexing the phone is prone to bend

mainly because a metal insert meant to

reinforce instead spins and an access

too close to the critical point if they

were further apart allowing better

support to counter the flexing and not

spinning it would make it more resistant

Wired who is one of the biggest websites

on the planet experienced bending in

their iPhone six-plus review unit after

just four days now again wired is huge

and why this would be dismissed is

beyond me John Gruber of daring fireball

said this I cannot believe that this

bent iphone six-plus thing is becoming a

thing watch this jackasses video and

then he conveniently forgets to link

should we not be amazed that his phone

didn't snap in half under this pressure

that the glass did fracture under

pressure like this bending but not

breaking seems like an extraordinary

feature this bothers me for a couple

reasons lately it seems that youtubers

have got this wrap or image that they're

not as official or as legitimate as

certain media or journalistic sites Cult

of Mac recently published an article

that youtubers are striking it rich off

iPhone 6 videos but this is where you

guys need to pay attention I've seen

some pretty bitter complaints that these

YouTube videos are done solely for views

the reality is that every single website

that embedded and posted loose video on

their website isn't doing it for charity

they're gaining page views and yep those

are ads so they are benefiting

monetarily as well so the whole

holier-than-thou attitude kind of rubs

me the wrong way now if you haven't

heard of 9 to 5 Mac you should check

them out mark Berman wrote an incredible

piece on how Apple's PR works the sad

reality is that most of these media

websites are going to turn the other way

why being able to get your iPhone

reviewed days before the public even

gets their hands on it equals more

pageviews and of course that equals

money and the crazy thing is times are

changing no longer is everyone or you

guys for that matter waiting on these

pre-release embargo reviews you're

actually turning towards guess what

YouTube videos all of the highest viewed

iPhone 6 videos are from youtubers even

without that Apple head start so if

there's one thing that you take away

from this video it's not that all media

is corrupt and evil but it's more so

don't believe the first thing that you

hear or read

question everything we have so much

information at our fingertips so if

Apple comes out and says only nine users

complain don't just immediately buy into

that and at the same time if you hear

that the iPhone six-plus bends don't

automatically assume that it's the worst

phone on the planet that it's unusable

and again it's gonna bend right out of

the box in your pocket do a little

investigating I think eventually we'll

see more and more of these issues pop up

but again only time will tell and we'll

have to see now again if you're still

interested in looking into buying an

iphone six-plus again it's not the end

of the world

if you are concerned I actually just

tested it out using a case and it does

help it quite a bit so if you guys want

to check out that video it is linked

right here and also linked down in the

description if you found this video

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from that this is Jonathan with TLD and

I'll see you guys later