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Apple Launches Free iPhone 6 Plus Camera Replacement Program
Mark Wilson writes: Complaints about the camera of the iPhone 6 Plus have been plentiful, and Apple has finally acknowledged that there is a problem. It's not something that affects all iPhone 6 Plus owners, but the company says that phones manufactured between September 2014 and January 2015 could include a failed camera component. Apple has set up a replacement program which enables those with problems with the rear camera to obtain a replacement. Before you get too excited, it is just replacement camera components that are on offer, not replacement iPhones. You'll need to check to see if your phone is eligible at the program website. (Also at TechCrunch.)
You send in your phone and in 6-8 weeks you get it back.
What do you mean "how you should make calls in the meantime", what happened to your iPhone 5?
You could not have guess more wrongly.
I just got off a chat with support. The phones are fixed on site. If they cannot, the phone is shipped and a loner is provided. When I started the chat the first thing they asked was if I had the iSight issue. Then while chatting it turns out that he is in a suburb of the town I live in so we chatted about that while we was doing his thing. I complain about the things Apple does wrong. I've found that Customer Support is typically not one of them.
Nearly every generation of iphone I can remember has had some 'quality issue'. Same with macs.
I used to repair macs, so I know what they are like inside, at least for the generations up to the switch to amd64. Thermally, they were often badly engineered - there were exceptions like the G5 tower, but the exceptions were often idiosyncratic in other annoying ways (eg. the G5 tower could only take 2 disks in a huge tower, had something that wasn't quite a DVI port, and used oddball 15A power cable). We used to adapt standard PC components to fix the macs, so that they wouldn't be back in the shop again in a year or so. Sometimes I felt that engineering issues got ignored in favour of aesthetics.
The bad news is the nearest local service provider (an Apple Store) is about 45 miles away. Maybe the fact that I'm eligible is also bad news, since I have had some blurry photos. There's a beautiful buck that's been wandering around in the farm field behind our house, and I've tried to get some photos of him, but they turn out blurry enough that you can't make out his antlers. :-/
Taking guns away from the 99% gives the 1% 100% of the power.
I bet they're very happy with their decision to make Apple products impossible to disassemble and make all the parts practically impossible to replace.
The fact that they are replacing them rather proves your assumption wrong.
Takes about 3 minutes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...