Apple blames owners for iPhone 6 Touch Disease, will fix the problem for $149

So, how much is Apple paying you? Because man are you shilling for them so hard right now. Like everyone has said, manufacturers should make products for how they are actually used not how they WANT them to be used. If people put them in their back pocket, make it strong enough to support that and don't put form over all.

Apple pays me nothing it TRULY annoys me that people ALWAYS assume companies are doing things just to hurt people and they don't do ANY investigation.

And everyone has NOT said they manufacturers should make products for how they are actually used not how they WANT its only a SMALL group of people that don't understand how to use their device without breaking it. common sense should be apparent that certain devices should be used a certain way and not have a CARELESS attitude about how to take care of them.

I am making this point because to ME people are simply stubborn and IGNORANT of what they do, and I have SEEN it my whole life. mainly because I work in support and people do REALLY stupid things and they can't SEE what they are doing wrong its ALWAYS the companies fault why things break and people *NEVER* accept their own accountability.

I keep trying to make this point hoping that one day.. it will sink in, but apparently it's not going to. It has ZERO to do with Apple really don't care what they do, because it doesn't affect me either way, but USERS are dragging the REST of us down with their asinine actions and THAT does concern me.

Also AGAIN you are not even TRYING to understand its the weight on the SCREEN, its a sensitive touch screen.. just TRY and invoke a small amount of common sense here that a device with a LIGHT tap doesn't need a HEAVY object to move or touch the screen? HUH! And when you put weight on a sensitive surface bad things are going to happen, is that so hard to comprehend? The device is fine, its the SCREEN that's damaged, and you want manufacturers to make the screen support 100 lbs or more? Are you serious? I hope you are truly not that ignorant. Apple is making people pay for their mistake as it should be, so you can agree or not, but you are WRONG, and Apple or any other manufacturer isn't going to make a device to hold weight when you are not SUPPOSED to use it for that purpose.

Insurance is high because people are careless at the wheel, driving and texting, eating, talking not paying attention, we pay for phones because they have to overbuild electronics because people can't SIMPLY be careful.. NO.

This is more about people doing stuff that WILL come back to affect me more than supporting Apple. you can't FIX stupid but we can at LEAST try to educate people to MAYBE do less stupid things...

Like carrying a phone in their back pocket then BLAME manufacturer for THEIR own stupidity.
 
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LOL...see, you WERE dropping it wrong! Told ya so!

It wasn't dropped... it was SAT on.. SAT as in putting weight on.. as in ABUSE as in not designed to have weight or hold weight.. So you keep making the point that its wrong.. but you are defending stupidity..
 
You are overstating the problem. Users possess the phone yes or no? If they have the phone and the phone breaks how is that Apple issue?
Are you genuinely not capable of mentally grasping that a design fault won't necessarily show up the same way for everyone, but that a blatantly obvious and repeatable pattern of +9mm thick phones aren't "dropping like flies" or bending with even light pressure like Apple sub 7mm phones pretty much is the core issue? Or that everyone except the most die-hard fan-boys is slowly beginning to grasp "thinner is better" isn't a never-ending straight line, but rather more of a bell shaped curve?

"I had the SAME phone in question (for more than 2 years) mine didn't have a problem or ANY problem"
Given how often you've repeated the same pointless anecdote, the fact you suffer from "I Am The World Syndrome" where nothing can happen to anyone if it doesn't first happen to yourself and where 7.3bn on Earth are "Mini-Me" clones of yourself, isn't winning any arguments...

The problem is some phones are those made so thin and bendable their PCB circuit tracks break up with normal usage. The fact yours has a picture of a piece of fruit on doesn't magically change the laws of physics. Deflect all you want in your "damage control panic mode". Reality will not hide because some fanboys cannot handle the truth. And yes, such ridiculously fragile phones are badly designed. There I've said it again. Because it's the truth regardless of how you personally walk round with yours wrapped up in a ball of cotton wool then blame everyone else for not copying...

So you own a car... I assume if you drive your car over a curb at 20 mph time and time again eventually you are going to bend the rim.. right?
Your car analogy is false as intentionally driving onto a curb is equivalent to deliberately bending it on purpose, not just sticking it in your pocket. A better analogy is a car designer whose car was so fragile it fell apart if you parked it inside an ordinary garage, then relied on an army of Internet fanboys to blame the garage, the driver, the neighbours, everyone except the car designer's who were so obsessed with "prettifying" the paintwork, they forget to do the structural calculations of the suspension system...
 
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It wasn't dropped... it was SAT on.. SAT as in putting weight on.. as in ABUSE as in not designed to have weight or hold weight.. So you keep making the point that its wrong.. but you are defending stupidity..
So now in the attempt to make a watch smaller, it can no longer be worn on the wrist. And any consumer that attempts to wear a watch is storing it wrong. Seriously where have you been the last 20 years. People have always carried a phone in their pocket. The phone should be designed for such usage. If not then it is a design flaw. Since this issue has been labeled a disease, I'm going to skip the part where we assume it a design flaw. And go ahead and call it what it really is "a design flaw". If it wasn't a design flaw, it wouldn't be plaguing so many phones. Apple charging people to fix this issue is nothing more than Apple charging to pay for their own incompetence to keep a much needed durable design (aka: thicker phone).
 
For ATLVM: You claim Apple has done research and you claim it's from the phone's going into people's back pocket. If so, why does the quote from Apple say, "Unsurprisingly, Apple isn’t claiming liability for Touch Disease; instead, it is blaming clumsy owners whose iPhones have been 'dropped multiple times on a hard surface and then incurring further stress on the device.'"? As for your repeated "CASE CLOSED", the actual case, the Class Action Law Suit, is still ongoing. Apple has to prove all of these people carelessly dropped their phones (or, if they hire you, that they stored their phones in their back pockets) and the other side just has to show that this is a common problem with this phone and not with smart phones as a whole.
 
Are you genuinely not capable of mentally grasping that a design fault won't necessarily show up the way for everyone, but that a blatantly obvious and repeatable pattern of +9mm thick phones aren't "dropping like flies" or bending with even light pressure like Apple sub 7mm phones pretty much is the core issue? Or that everyone except the most die-hard fan-boys is slowly beginning to grasp "thinner is better" isn't a never-ending straight line, but rather more of a bell shaped curve?


Given how often you've repeated the same pointless anecdote, the fact you suffer from "I Am The World Syndrome" where nothing can happen to anyone if it doesn't first happen to yourself and where 7.3bn on Earth are "Mini-Me" clones of yourself, isn't winning any arguments...

The problem is some phones are those made so thin and bendable their PCB circuit tracks break up with normal usage. The fact yours has a picture of a piece of fruit on doesn't magically change the laws of physics. Deflect all you want in your "damage control panic mode". Reality will not hide because some fanboys cannot handle the truth. And yes, such ridiculously fragile phones are badly designed. There I've said it again. Because it's the truth regardless of how you personally walk round with yours wrapped up in a ball of cotton wool then blame everyone else for not copying...


Your car analogy is false as intentionally driving onto a curb is equivalent to deliberately bending it on purpose, not just sticking it in your pocket. A better analogy is a car designer whose car was so fragile it fell apart if you parked it inside an ordinary garage, then relied on an army of Internet fanboys to blame the garage, the driver, the neighbors, everyone except the car designer's who were so obsessed with "prettifying" the paintwork, they forget to do the structural calculations of the suspension system...

car analogy is exactly on point, so it's OK to call user abuse driving a car into a curb abuse but bending a phone on purpose (which is EXACTLY what happens when you SIT on it) are mutually exclusive things? LOL.. what planet are you from?

We aren't talking about leaving a car in the driveway and miraculously the car dismantles over night we are talking about PEOPLE actively doing SOMETHING to cause damage to their phone, like sticking in their back pocket.

Its grossly stupid to just ASSUME sitting on a device (that wasn't deigned, nor should it be) to withstand like 50 or 60 lbs of pressure to the screen which is designed to be light touch... is bad design.. that's plain retarded.

Anyway we can keep going around and around on this subject never get anywhere, it's ALREADY decided believe whatever you want, people MUCH smarter than you have determined user error, and therefore THEY pay for their OWN damage...

You are the modern "hippy" generation, its the establishment vs people ALL over again, the world is wrong government is stupid and we should preserve the innocent regardless if they exemplify stupidity or not.. oh the poor down trodden they need assistance, they are ignorant of wrong doing...oh woe is them we should have pity..

shed your tears on some other altar, because it doesn't matter what your side is, it's STILL wrong. People paying for a device in THEIR care is exactly what happens when you don't take care, I feel sorry for your family I hope you didn't procreate because you are raising them to be more entitled then the other losers that simply can't be responsible for their own actions.
 
car analogy is exactly on point, so it's OK to call user abuse driving a car into a curb abuse but bending a phone on purpose (which is EXACTLY what happens when you SIT on it) are mutually exclusive things? LOL.. what planet are you from?

One that can read English. Forgetting a phone is in your pocket and sitting down is obviously not "intentional damage" by any measure. Really I could reply to another neurotic wall of text, but will just finish with these two short points:-

1. Handheld devices need to be durable. If your $800 "smart" phone breaks more easily than a $20 Nokia or $30 MP3 player (which don't even bend when sat on let alone break), it's just badly made cr*p and all the shrieking and wailing will not change that. Likewise, the general "mass expectation" that a phone can be left in a pocket without self-destructing comes from years of not using overly-fragile Apple phones. So the problem there is self-evident if Apple phones can only be used by treating them like delicate crystal figurines, whilst ignoring everyone else who doesn't have to pretend their phone is anything other than a phone that won't fall apart if you cough too loudly...

2. You can usually judge a shill when half the posts in a thread belong to him (and posted in a "frantic" tone), and half for everyone else combined. Just sayin', it is kinda obvious what you're doing (even if you can't see it yourself...) ;)
 
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To be fair to Apple, their phones have the best build quality on the market.
 
@ATVLM
"CASE CLOSED".........only thing that seems to be closed is your mind
"You are defending stupidity".........actually you are with your continual, repetitive posts
"to ME people are simply stubborn and IGNORANT of what they do"...........you have proven to me you are case #1
 
@ATLVM
"APPLE PLAYS ME NOTHING WHAAA"
How does it feel to work for free then?

The phone should be able to withstand more force then it does. If not, every phone would break this easily. Since it doesn't, it is safe to say that it's garbage in that sense. Every now and then there comes an Apple fanboy to prove how much of a cretin he is. It really becomes annoying.
 
Firstly, why do pants have back pockets in the first place? It's 100% impractical and dumb.

Now lets assume you do put things in back pockets, who the ************************ puts their expensive phone there?!
Clearly not someone from a country where they steal phones or anyone with common sense.
Jeeez!!

I'm no Apple fan but I feel they do have a point, if a chip breaks off from the PCB then it had to have been bent or handled VERY roughly.
 
Apple has become synonymous with the word crap their product are over priced, poorly made and absolutely no service except at great cost. Why anyone would be foolish enough to buy from this abusive company is beyond me. I would not own one of their product if you gave it to me.
 
Sure but you don't need to be an Apple fanboy to believe that Apple aren't at fault in this case. I don't, the vast majority of iPhone 6's haven't had this issue, despite many of the members on this forum often claiming iPhone users to be less intelligent than their android toting bretheren, most of them haven't been clumsy enough to have this particular issue.
Apple has become synonymous with the word crap their product are over priced, poorly made and absolutely no service except at great cost. Why anyone would be foolish enough to buy from this abusive company is beyond me. I would not own one of their product if you gave it to me.
Actually iPhones are the fastest and best built phones on the market right now.
 
This is CLEAR abuse.

SITTING on your phone is the problem. Take your phone out and sit on it.. would you do that? Of course not, but if you put in your back pocket and LEAVE it there while you drive, eat, sit down, watch TV...whatever and DON;T remove it.. you expect a device to handle 100 lbs of pressure?!?! LOL

OK.. whatever, I guess designers are stupid, they need to make phones thicker and more resilient to stupidity then because that's ALL this is..

Apple is going to make users pay for their ABUSE, that's clear because a phone is NOT designed to be SAT on.. that should be OBVIOUS I see that's it not.

I get what you mean about people not taking care of their devices and yes some people do dumb things with them but my point about planned obsolescence still stands, more so now then ever. And yes I get you are an apple fanboy and that this thread is obviously upsetting to you but you cant just dismiss real concerns for device build quality from a manufacturer that is known for making arrogant decisions. Don't forget apple has a history of taking its customers for granted and making poor decisions. if the ipod hadn't been apples saving grace then the company would have disappeared long ago.
 
Wow...it's been a long time since I saw crap stupidity talks like from ATVLM... it's more than just fanboy talk.... sheesh... get a life... that "case closed" repetitive stunt makes me rotfl....
Trolling at it's best...

Coming back to the topic, I think Apple do need to admit their design flaws. They are reluctant to admit it because it will be a deeply damaging issue to their reputation. What more, at the height of rivalry with Samsung... admitting a flaw in their flagships also may signal a worrying trend of people switching to another phone.
 
Sure but you don't need to be an Apple fanboy to believe that Apple aren't at fault in this case. I don't, the vast majority of iPhone 6's haven't had this issue, despite many of the members on this forum often claiming iPhone users to be less intelligent than their android toting bretheren, most of them haven't been clumsy enough to have this particular issue.
They are too thin and they are breaking, its a cheaply built device with average hardware inside it. My old ladies first 5C had screen/touch issues after the first year.

Actually iPhones are the fastest and best built phones on the market right now.

Only a biased fool living on Mars ignores the facts that badly.





 
I'm assuming people generally use their phone the same regardless of brand. So why is Apple failing and not the other brands?
 
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