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An Unprecedented Look At Apple's "Black Labs"

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the where-the-magic/evil-happens dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Apple recently granted ABC Nightline unprecedented access to its secretive 'black labs' where it puts upcoming products through exhaustive testing."

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  1. Exhaustive testing? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Just too easy... does exhaustive testing include: HOLDING THE PHONE?

    Apparently not.

    1. Re:Exhaustive testing? by PopeRatzo · · Score: 2, Funny

      Don't blame the testers

      It's not a problem with testers, it's a lack of testees.

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  2. This is going to be posted quite a bit. by Adaeniel · · Score: 5, Funny

    Apparently, their exhaustive testing doesn't actually include using the product.

    1. Re:This is going to be posted quite a bit. by ahankinson · · Score: 1, Funny

      Apparently posting about it doesn't require using the product either.

    2. Re:This is going to be posted quite a bit. by mcgrew · · Score: 4, Funny

      Apparently posting about it doesn't require using the product either.

      You must be new here... it doesn't even require reading about the product, let alone using it.

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  3. Apple's Black Labs: by not+already+in+use · · Score: 5, Funny

    Where Apple tests for flaws in other phones to justify the flaws in their own phones.

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  4. Re:Considering the stink about iPhone4 by nomadic · · Score: 4, Funny

    Considering the past 20 years of structural design flaws, as well.

  5. Re:Considering the stink about iPhone4 by Philip+K+Dickhead · · Score: 5, Funny

    Have you EVER tried to exhaust a Black Lab? I mean, your Golden Retriever may be something to talk about.

    But the Lab? They're indefatigable!

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  6. Re:Hey look, damage reduction! by Joe+U · · Score: 2, Funny

    that the iPhone 4 "death grip" is "holding it normally in your left hand".

    Wait a sec, doesn't everyone use a rubber band to hold the phone to their head nowadays?

  7. WHATEVER YOU DO by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Don't google the phrase "I'll be in my lab" with image search.

  8. Re:ABC.. Disney.. Jobs.. by PopeRatzo · · Score: 2, Funny

    Somewhere around 5 media companies control about 99% of what the general population sees, hears, reads, and frankly, thinks.

    Unfortunately, (or not) Geeknet, Inc is not one of these 5 companies.

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  9. Re:Hey look, damage reduction! by Joe+U · · Score: 4, Funny

    There really is no way to just hold the phone like normal or even abnormal and go from full signal to zero.

    Sorry, you're wrong, after holding the Eris with both hands, and feet, underwater, on top of a mesa while in a Faraday cage I experienced significant signal loss. While in comparison, I saw absolutely no signal loss after using the new bumper Apple issued (while attached to the 12 ft iTenna, but most iphone users have at least one of them)

  10. Next Activision game! by ninjacheeseburger · · Score: 2, Funny

    Call of Duty: Black Labs