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Apple Confirms Some iPad Pros Ship Slightly Bent, But Says It's Normal (theverge.com)
Iwastheone shares a report from The Verge: Apple has confirmed to The Verge that some of its 2018 iPad Pros are shipping with a very slight bend in the aluminum chassis. But according to the company, this is a side effect of the device's manufacturing process and shouldn't worsen over time or negatively affect the flagship iPad's performance in any practical way. Apple does not consider it to be a defect. The bend is the result of a cooling process involving the iPad Pro's metal and plastic components during manufacturing, according to Apple. Both sizes of the new iPad Pro can exhibit it.
Those who are annoyed by the bend shouldn't have any trouble exchanging or returning their iPad Pro at the Apple Store or other retailers within the 14-day return window. But it's not clear if swaps will be permitted outside that policy. I've asked Apple if it has communicated with stores about the issue, as I've read some accounts of employees telling people it's accidental damage and warrants an AppleCare+ claim (and deductible) to replace. That shouldn't be the case for a slight bend. Apple also says it has not seen a higher-than-normal return rate for the 2018 iPad Pro so far.
Those who are annoyed by the bend shouldn't have any trouble exchanging or returning their iPad Pro at the Apple Store or other retailers within the 14-day return window. But it's not clear if swaps will be permitted outside that policy. I've asked Apple if it has communicated with stores about the issue, as I've read some accounts of employees telling people it's accidental damage and warrants an AppleCare+ claim (and deductible) to replace. That shouldn't be the case for a slight bend. Apple also says it has not seen a higher-than-normal return rate for the 2018 iPad Pro so far.
If normal, why did bending not appear on older models?
Making excuses acted out after the fact as decisions is a defective strategy.
I swear, if Apple says their dick tastes like shit but it's normal, there will still be people lining up to suck it. I mean, after removing every useful connector, putting shitty keyboards, shitty touchpads, buggy software, they are still asking for more abuse, so...
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Looks like the reality distortion field has turned into a physical distortion field.
SJW n. One who posts facts.
My boyfriend tells me that's normal.
Apple has confirmed to The Verge that some of its 2018 iPad Pros are shipping with a very slight bend in the aluminum chassis. But according to the company, this is a side effect of the device's manufacturing process and shouldn't worsen over time or negatively affect the flagship iPad's performance in any practical way.
I'd like to hear what Apple zealots say about this.
I expected Apple to tell us we're looking at the device "wrong"...
I expected Apple to tell us we're looking at the device "wrong"...
"It's not the iPad that's bent. That oak table you're putting it on to demonstrate must be warped!"
.. this product.
Don't get me wrong, if it works and will not have a negative effect it is basically not an issue, from a functional POV.
Except this is an "Apple product", you exactly don't want a "very slight bend" that.
Judging from the photos that "very slight bend", is just an understatement, what would then be a slight bend, roughly everything below 10Â ?
You want "quallity" in the real sense and not something a chinese cheap-factory spits gadgets out like a machine gun spits bullets - wide spread hit area, and that lands on the very cheap section on ebay.
And before going into production there is a test production - where the devices go into a landfill or into a furnace - and this must have happened there, somebody must have recognized it.
And it seems - this is speculation - someone at Apple QAgetting oked from supperiors, decided to go with it.
Apple stands for high quallity visual, happtic as well as working.
This simply does not justify the higher price of Apple products.
Because then you could also go with a 100$ cheap Android run-off-the-mill tablet - with all your private data siphoned to china.
like a penis,
bent but still works, and will allways spew piss.
Fucking Gehy
Megah Gehy
Quality control at Apple now an embarrassment. No craplet at $50 from China would pretend a visible bend was acceptable.
That's what you get when you're using malnourished children to produce your overpriced electronics and then shipping 'em half way round the globe?
... would have gone ripshit if the iPad's came from the factory bent, I think it's safe to say Apple's culture's changed. Pity the prices didn't reflect this.
It's normal for Apple products to ship slightly bent. I get it.
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
The only things that are reall bent (over) are the iSheeps to get facked in the arse by apple again.
It';s true, any and all that are associated with, apple, apple products, apple conceptualization, apple thinking, and or apple promotion (especially) SUCK COCK FOR COKE.
How fragile must this manufacturing be that Apple could not find a way to prevent warping. Seriously, the excuses Apple comes up with to cover for shoddy manufacturing is embarrassing. These are not cheap Amazon Fire tablets but supposedly professional grade tablets. Again Apple has chosen design over durability of which these iPad Pro's can't even come in the box new and without defects.
Steve Jobs is rolling on its grave.
It's sad to see the decline of Apple. And sadder to see so many stupid people still vouching for it and shelling out top dollars for mediocre equipment that costs half under other brands.
... just look at the marketing up front!
Is it in there, promoted as the best thing since sliced bread, then chances are that it actually is a feature.
If it isn't in there, it sure as hell is a bug!
Now, did they promote this thing up front? - "Now, with a revolutionary bent frame!" I would not think so....
Steve Jobs was a jerk, but I cant help but wonder if we'd see this kind of engineering output if he was still around. This sounds like the type of thing he was a perfectionist about and would have went off over.
Better known as 318230.
Once upon a time, the most expensive production car was a Cadillac. They spared no expense on engineering, fit or finish.
But then you see, people with MBAs were put in charge.
They got the bright idea to sell a cheap Chevy as a Cadillac and pocket the huge profits!
In just a few years Cadillac was turned into a punchline for jokes and the genius MBAs got fired.
But it was too late.
Even decades later, Cadillac never regained first place.
That's exactly the road Apple has been going down.
Of course it is a natural feature, just one they don't advertise. I mean it is not like Apple patents silly things like rounded corners and then tries to undersel ir..
Yeah, joke isnt very good. But that bullshit patent isnt either.
It is ok! It not like they try to sell it as a premium product at a premium price. :P
(full disclosure: Recently, I made an impulse purchase and bought the cheapest iPad, a hospital patient needed a distraction and it seems fine for that use when there's proper WiFi)
L'Idiot
Even if only cosmetic, the issue is out of character for Apple, which has rooted its reputation in manufacturing devices with best-in-industry fit and finish.
This quote from the article sums up my opinion pretty well.
I've paid my Apple premium price before because I specifically didn't want to deal with questionable quality in any aspect. I wanted something that I knew someone had spent an exorbitant amount of time testing and re-working to make it as well as they could make it...and I was willing to pay the exorbitant price for that piece of mind so I could just get up and running quickly and go about my business. I haven't been disappointed yet on that front.
But THIS...this smacks of cheap Chinese ebay crap and to try to brush it off as not affecting operation...yeah, that's not gonna fly. Aluminum case warpage today, cheap SSD selection tomorrow. A company's response to a legitimate issue is even more indicative of their future products than the fact that they had an issue was to begin with.
I can accept an occasional slippage on that front, but to try to sweep it under the floor when you know full well your company's reputation and customer base is built around avoidance of that very type of thing raises some questions. They'll rethink this position. I hope.
Ask your tech doctor about aPD - there might be a treatment.
I guess they don't have the rigidity of the headphone jacks to help keep the iPad straight anymore.
They're so courageous!
No, it's that the Apple Distortion Field is so strong that it curves space...
They are just trying to preempt another Bendgate. If they say it's completely normal nobody can say that Apple denied the problem exists.
Reminds me of John Cleese's "How To Irritate People" sketch about the car salesman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
You have absolutely got to be kidding me this company takes the cake! A premium product and they simply blow off a defect, likely coming from the fact that their engineers didn’t think about how two or more opposing materials respond to temperature variations, stresses placed on them, etc. during the manufacturing process.
“We messed up but it still works so you should just be happy with it after spending a bunch of money on it.”.
That is all.
It's a feature, it makes it easier to pick it up off of a table!
Apple's next advertising campaign: "Get Bent!"
n/t
Oh dont worry. They will be here to explain to us how apple is right and the rest of the world is wrong.
Eg
Theirs is straight so there is not problem
Its a small amount of ipads effected
Walls of text explaining about tolerances and the manufacturing process.
How nothing is really perfect
How other manufactures have issues too.
How its not a big deal.
How diffficult it is for apple to things perfect at the volume apple requires
How no one is holding a gun to your head; if you dont like it buy something else.
The same lame ass excuses they roll out everything apple does something stupid
If it's normal, they should all be bent.
Saying that it's "normal" that "some are bent" is saying that "our process is flawed, and as a result, it is expected that some of the product will be suboptimal, and we consider that acceptable".
I am surprised that they didn't try to claim that bent ones are worth more because there are fewer of them, and you should consider yourself lucky to have gotten one, as if it was like a rare gold foil version of a trading card.
No no, it's just that their products are so cool that it warps the space time continuum!
The device is actually straight, it's the universe around it that is bent!
apple sure likes to test the stupidity of their cult member every once in a while.
Weed out any intelligent or independent thinking ones.
This is just another test ooh apple faithful, do not fail, buy a bent ipad today.
maybe a cosmetic defect is a fucking defect...
Watch the JerryRigEverything durability test of the new ipad on youtube. Highlight from the video: "Like mashed potatoes wrapped in tin foil." You have to be fucking insane to pay Apple for that shit.
Do you really think Tim Cook wants everything to be straight? C'mon now.
"Do not try and bend the iPad, that's impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth...there is no iPad. Then you'll see that it is not the iPad that bends, it is only yourself."
PeyroniePad
Apple is slowly but surely destroying its own image as a premium product. "So it's bent.. whaddayawant for a lousy thousand bucks! What.. you expect us to do quality control? That'd cut into our profit margin!".
Pretty much any other manufacturer would have rejected this as a manufacturing defect, and taken the bent ones off the line. Especially Apple, a product people get hardons for when they "onbox it".
The competition did it long before. Apple got lucky with the notch releasing their copycat product same generation as the ones they were copying, but in this case, well they're about 3 generations behind. They used the same excuse too:
Surface Pro 3 devices use a specially treated magnesium alloy case designed to help reduce weight, improve battery performance and because the treatment allows the case to be slightly malleable, improve durability in use. As a side effect of this treatment, devices can acquire a slight curvature. This curvature only occurs during the treatment process and does not change after manufacturing.
Virtual +1 Funny.
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That's too expensive. If you wait for a sale, you can get a cheap 40$CAD Fire 7 tablet with all your private data siphoned to Amazon.
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How is it not a defect? It isn't intended to be bent, therefor something is wrong with it. Maybe say it's not a system affecting defect or whatever.... But it's still a defect.
Apple did this on purpose. They're playing 4-D chess while the rest of the industry is playing checkers. By saying "this is normal", they're distracting from other issues they have. Apple won and you lost, so suck it up, buttercup. iPad purchases have consequences. And it's still better than a Surface.
#WhereAppleUsersGoOneTheyGoAll
#TrustThePlan
You are welcome on my lawn.
...Is it really so bent you need to return it anyway?
Why is it the job of news these days is to try and get people to worry about everything. Sheesh.
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Apple has confirmed to The Verge that some of its 2018 iPad Pros are shipping with a very slight bend in the aluminum chassis. But according to the company, this is a side effect of the device's manufacturing process and shouldn't worsen over time or negatively affect the flagship iPad's performance in any practical way.
I'd like to hear what Apple zealots say about this.
I expected Apple to tell us we're looking at the device "wrong"...
They'll just get bent over all the negative comments...
I'm a consultant - I convert gibberish into cash-flow.
Do not try and bend the IPad. That's impossible. Instead, only realize the truth... THERE IS NO IPad. Then you will see that it not the IPad that bends, it is your self.
I submitted USA's own mass surveillance program 'Hemisphere' and that story NEVER got published. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/...
THERE WILL ALWAYS BE CONSEQUENCES FOR YOUR LIES NAZI FAGGOT KEN DOLL
Filter error: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING. Filter error: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.
Boy: Do not try and bend the iPad back. That's impossible. Instead only try to realize the truth.
Neo: What truth?
Boy: There is no iPad.
Neo: There is no iPad?
Boy: Then you'll see that it is not the iPad that is bent, it is only yourself.
I expected Apple to tell us we're looking at the device "wrong"...
"It's not the iPad that's bent. That oak table you're putting it on to demonstrate must be warped!"
It's mahogany, you insensitive clod.
What a shithole company. Yould have to be a real self-hating piece of shit to give your money to those assholes!
Such Freedumbs
Apples sells it's products as high end and perfect. When you order one , that's what you expect.
I once had an ipod with a very very slight gap between the plastic and the metal. On a crappy dell or something else, I wouldn't have noticed. On my shiny new ipod given as an expensive Christmas Gift, I obsessed over it. Every time I reached into my pocket, my finger would hit that spot and I'd notice it.
Eventually, I returned it: not because it was affecting function, but because my high expectations made that into a defect I couldn't live with.
"So you pay a *premium* for that fucked up iPad Pro, you stupid fucking rubes" says Tim Cook.
It's a damn shame, that when the editors dont like it, It dont get published..
What the fuck..
But hurt babies..
your caught, so deal with it.
It resembles that which is like a penis,
bent but still works, and will always spew hot, liquid, waste.
typical for an apple product..
"It's not the iPad that's bent, it's space-time. Get away from that gravity well."
It's sad to see that people still purchase devices from Apple and Samsung. Overpriced and broken crap with poor battery life at ridiculous prices. I'll pass.
You deleted my comment.
I hope you all get terminal cancer and suffer horribly before it kills you.
Every time you delete my comments, a new tumor will grow inside your pathetic worthless cock-gobbling body.
DIE, MOTHERFUCKERS.
Underengineered.
Think Different.
...and thatâ(TM)s normal.
...and that is normal.
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