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Um, Apple thread
pokepal148:
--- Quote from: RABicle on November 19, 2018, 08:44:06 PM ---Vicious and cruel video.
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Not as vicious and cruel as charging $1000 for something that can break that easily due to a hardware fault and than charging an arm and a leg to get it officially repaired while you are actively trying to prevent third party repairs of your devices altogether.
Now that's vicious and cruel.
Adrock:
That video is so f-ing stupid. Dude is actively trying to break the iPad. In what situation would the average person ever need to do that? Most things can be broken if enough force it applied. If I slash my tires, I can’t blame Michelin for supposedly making faulty tires. I’m not supposed to be slashing my tires so if I do, that’s on me. When used appropriately, these things will work as expected.
Spak-Spang:
Adrock: The waste on the internet frustrates me. When you see people actively destroying products that are expensive and made from limited resources in the world just for clicks is annoying. It makes it more frustrating when you think, the money wasted just to break an iPad Pro could have been donated to help people.
That said, I think he was trying to show that Apple's design choices are making the iPad Pro vulnerable to breaking with minor stress. The video does tell us though how much force he used though. It seems to me to actually be a video to ultimately sell the protective covers he was advertising on the video, which means he is not being that honest to the audience.
pokepal148:
--- Quote from: Spak-Spang on November 20, 2018, 06:54:45 PM ---It seems to me to actually be a video to ultimately sell the protective covers he was advertising on the video, which means he is not being that honest to the audience.
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Actually those are skins. there is absolutely no structural reinforcement to them. They can probably protect the ipad from scratches pretty well though and it's pretty easy to infer that's what he was talking about.
He also does videos on repairs of smart devices and the one on the back glass repair for the newer iPhones is really interesting because of what an absolute nightmare it is to do (it's widely believed that apple themselves just replace the entire chassis.)
nickmitch:
Good to know my iPhone can survive extreme temperatures.