There are quite a few Apple iPhone 6 Plus owners who are having troubles with the multi-touch functionality, or even with serious screen flickering and today Apple announced what causes it. They have decided that blaming their customers is the best way to deal with this issue and they will fix it for you, if you give them $150. Their justification is that this issue could only be caused by multiple drops onto hard surfaces, even if the screen has not cracked Apple has decreed that there is still damage being done internally and you need to pay to have it repaired. The Inquirer has a different solution, buy a different phone. That might be hard for some people to do, even if Apple devices are not as stable as the competition.
"Apple has determined that some iPhone 6 Plus devices may exhibit display flickering or Multi-Touch issues after being dropped multiple times on a hard surface and then incurring further stress on the device," said the Apple Multi-Touch programme information."
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Here is the proof that Apple
Here is the proof that Apple is way more innovative then Samsung. Not to worry though they learn fast.
Think someone needs to do
Think someone needs to do more testing to see what the caused besides just guessing at it. R&D should have a iphone 6 Plus just setting in a seal testing environment. Having the phone go thru temperature changes and battery cycles with load and and idle. Like most tech people, I would like to know what causes the issue with facts and research. But it is Apples revenue that is on the line. So if it comes to light it is a manufacturing defect then I guess we will see a class action law suit for the people that paid to get theirs repaired.
That sounds like an
That sounds like an incredibly expensive test to set up.
Internal damage to an iPhone
Internal damage to an iPhone with the display cracking? I’d like to see that happen even once. Those fragile things crack if look at them the wrong way.
It’s hard for me to wrap my
It’s hard for me to wrap my head around still has a customer base as large as it does with shit like this.
Oh, yeah, I forgot – marketing.
I am pretty sure that
I am pretty sure that marketing department have very concrete proofs that this way of action, will do less damage to the company’s image than going the Samsung way and be more honest to their customers.
And let’s be honest here. People will be talking about explosive Note 7 for years, while everyone will forgot really fast that you have to pay an extra $150 for design flaws in an iPhone.
And at the same time we have rumors that Apple is considering making iPhones an 100% American device. Funny how this kind of rumors, that will make many Americans to make positive comments about the company, brakes the same time the company decides to throw the bill to it’s (mostly) American customers. Coincidence.
Only fools pay more than $200
Only fools pay more than $200 for any smart phone! It’s just not worth it for what Apple is charging for smart phones!
Only one way to summarize
Only one way to summarize this:
Customer stupidity…
Rossmann Told You
Rossmann Told You So
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDaPDHvI4Xg