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Microsoft Surface Touch Cover 'Splits Within Days'
An anonymous reader points out a report at the Guardian of a potential problem for early adopters of the Microsoft Surface tablet. The Touch Cover is one of the available protective covers for the device; it acts as a keyboard, and has both a gyroscope and an accelerometer on board. Unfortunately, some users have found that the edges of the Touch Cover have split open after only a few days of use. "The defect is identical in each case: the cover ... begins to split at its seam where the device attaches magnetically to the main computer. [One developer] was told to return his Touch Cover to Microsoft for a replacement, and Microsoft has been swapping faulty covers for users where it has retail stores. It's unclear whether the problems that people have encountered are due to a faulty batch or are a subtle problem that will become more apparent as more people use it for longer — but the fact that users in the US and the UK have reported the problem suggests that it is not isolated to a single manufacturing batch."
well, the story isn't about it not working. it's about it having a build/design defect. and microsoft telling them that they're using it in wrong position that causes wrong stress on the seam.
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
faggot desu.
One article claims 2 users have reported this. The linked thread mentions three. I'm sure that they're may be more, but three reports of problems doesn't seem like a reason to declare a universal flaw yet.
But that must mean that everyone who bought one has a problem!
and microsoft telling them that they're using it in wrong position that causes wrong stress on the seam.
I call BS. Nowhere in the linked articles is Microsoft cited for any such claim. Citation needed, please.
it is bs, because the suggestion is made with the mouth of an user. but it's apparently the reason for why it breaks, so I'd wager that MS would tell you just to fuck off after you're back to have it changed the third time.
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
PROTEST.
The parent post was unfairly modded as TROLL. Can anyone, please, correct this?
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