The vast majority of phones and tablets pass this test. The iPad Pro comes nowhere near surviving it.
It's extremely weak. Just accept it and be careful.
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The vast majority of phones and tablets pass this test. The iPad Pro comes nowhere near surviving it.
It's extremely weak. Just accept it and be careful.
I'm merely saying... who's trying to bend their iPad Pro like it's a Mad Magazine fold-in?
Common sense here, folks.
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A couple of clickbate YouTube videos come out, and you’re so quick to call this a disaster? I’m just the voice of reason dude. Have you actually gone to an Apple Store and felt them with your own hands? Have you really made an educated well informed decision based on your own first hand knowledge? Or are you just basing this opinion off these clickbate videos? I am curious, because besides these, I see no rampant outrage. No call for a boycott or class action suit. So yeah, I think your reaction is kinda hysterical & overly dramatic.
Again, I have many artist friends who’ve been using these iPads & carrying them around IN their backpacks without any bending issue. I have tested them myself in the store and feel confident that they are fine. And I still stand by my advice to put a cover on any iPad you stuff into a backpack. That’s not a failure, that’s just common sense.
But If you go to an Apple store and feel differently, I won’t argue with you, that’s how you feel. You won’t get this iPad, and that’s cool...for you.
I just feel compelled to balance out posts like yours with a counter point. One of reason, and first hand experience. There are many people out there on the fence. This is a big purchase. If you feel you are providing them sound advice, I would advise them to not have a knee jerk reaction to a clickbate YouTube video that in no way portrays real world use. And I would urge them to keep researching...and to actually go down to a store and test for themselves how solid the new iPad Pros are.
No need to get all bent out of shape about it. Lol. Okay, i’m Done. Wether you get the new iPad Pro or not... Enjoy people.
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Well I would like some advice. I'm still in my return window with my new 12.9 IPP. I ask the collective, because I have a 2015 IPP that was I just about to sell. I'm happy with the new IPP. But if this is a legitimate issue, I'll return it and buy a new MBA then, and keep my 2015 IPP. Don't know what to do. I'm not clumsy and I have never straight up dropped my iPads but if people think this warrants serious concern I'd rather return it seeing as I wanted a macbook at some point for grad school. TIAFAR.
Is it legitimate? It depends on how you wanna use your iPP. If you want to throw it in your back pocket of your pants and go on a rollercoaster, then it might be a legitimate problem! You gonna get them bends, baby.
Look, these videos are meant to incite hype or instill fear. Do you normally take a straight razor or boxcutter to your iPad? Do you attempt to fold your iPad in half? If the answers are "no," then you're probably safe from any of these "REAL WORLD" problems these videos are warning of us.
(YOU CAN FOLD YOUR iPAD PRO INTO A ALUMINUM AIRPLANE! SKIP TO 3:45! WHO WANTS A $1K PAPER AIRPLANE?! APPLE SUCKS!)
If you don't REALLY need the 2018 iPP, and you have a perfectly fine 1st gen, and you'll need a MBA for school, then return the iPP and get a MacBook. That seems like a good use of your money, and you can always get a new iPad Pro later, especially if the MacBook is needed now.
What a shocker!
The iPad bends when you grab it at the outer sides and put a great amount of pressure at the center of the device, it scratches when abused with a razer sharp knife and it even turns black when torching it with a lighter... How dare you Apple!
Seriously, what do people expect? A chassis made of half kevlar, half German panther tank and bulletproof glass?
I've never bend a single phone or tablet, ever. Take care of your products and stop watching these idiotic, clickbait movies.
The iPad bends when you grab it at the outer sides and put a great amount of pressure at the center of the device, it scratches when abused with a razer sharp knife and it even turns black when torching it with a lighter... How dare you Apple!
Seriously, what do people expect? A chassis made of half kevlar, half German panther tank and bulletproof glass?
I've never bend a single phone or tablet, ever. Take care of your products and stop watching these idiotic, clickbait movies.
I expect to hold up to the same use as the previous one and not crumble like a cookie because I didn’t wear gloves in a sealed clean room.
I hear ya. I'm not doing backflips over this one way or the other. My concern with Apple stuff is always resale value. Historically I get pretty good value for my existing product when I buy a new product or upgrade. This issue could affect resale value down the road. And I always take my pad with me on trips (plane for work or vacay) and I don't want to fret over my $1200 tablet/keyboard combo being so sensitive for normal duties.
It’s not an issue unless you place your two hands at both ends of the iPad and proceed to apply enough force so to bend the thing.
My guess is you won’t ever do that...so you’ll be fine
I sold my iPhone 6 for a load of cash...so no bendgate didn’t affect the value of the iPhone 6
Thank you. This the most rational and well-reasoned response to this whole “gate” and as far as I’m concerned, ‘nuff said.
So did I, I got $650 for mine but that was my wireless carrier who gave me that.
Define "use".
If that means trying to snap it into two, take my advice and stick to a regular notepad/pencil instead.
Quit the nonsense and let others just enjoy their iPads.
This whole thing is insane.
These things are made of glass and thin metal, not Adamantium!
Glass breaks. Thin metal bends. Unless you're ACTIVELY trying to break your damn iPad or iPhone, chances are it WON'T break.
These arguments have nothing to do with being an Apple 'fanboy' or 'apologist'...it's just real world facts. If you (the royal you, not you, ZombiePete!) think these devices are 'cheaply made,' cool. Move on! No one is forcing you to buy one, which is what this whole outrage seems like it's based upon... "IT'S CHEAP! IT BENDS! I DON'T WANT TO BUY ONE!"
FINE THEN! Save your self some coin and move on. There's no literal gun against your head making you buy anything. And for the ones who DO want to buy one, I'm sure we're gonna be just fine as long as we don't try to, you know, FORCIBLY BEND AN iPAD IN HALF.
Yeeeeesh.
The new model seems to bend easier nonetheless. There are two weak points, the charging dock on the one and the microphone on the other side. This is a very expensive mobile device which should absolutely be made and tested for being carried around, put in a backpack, a bag with books or anything else that is considered fair and normal everyday use. And I will add that, in my opinion, these devices have to withstand a certain type of "mild abuse" as well and always must be tested for bending as a basic standard procedure during development. Apple should have learned since the iPhone 6.
I expect it from a phone, I expect it from a laptop and I expect it from an iPad.
There’s a lot of people who couldn’t afford to buy one and went from the validation posts to now the scaremongering about bendgate
The bends that have been show here are in line with the antenna bands...so no those are not the “weak points”
I'm not really good in physics and all (actually, I almost failed, back in the day), but the charging port for the pencil and the microphone hole are where the iPad would normally bend easiest either way. I want to think that it would bend anyway in that exact spot, even if there weren't any cutouts. There are cutouts on other areas of the iPad, for volume buttons, chargers, off button, but nobody ever feels that they weaken the structure. I don't know, I'm pretty confident that Apple's engineers are on top of these things. Yes, the new iPad bends easily. I am not disputing that. But I wouldn't call it a design flaw just yet. IF the incidences of iPads bending under regular use increase, we can start discussing that. But I want to bet that moving those to cutouts to different areas would not change much.
And where does it show that it cant withstand "mild abuse"? All I see is some lunatics on YouTube folding iPads like magazines, scratching it with extreme sharp objects and torching them with lighters.
When was the last time you torched your tablet or phone with your lighter?
There a difference between bending from light force and having to be a strong man make it bend barely. The difference between iPhone 6 and 6s was twice the force needed. Seems Apple learned nothing from the iPhone 6.
Now we're gonna throw an iPad Pro into the laundry machine! If it can't withstand a 40 minute hot-wash cycle and extreme spin mode, we'll know Apple has made an inferior product! Let's go!
I don't know what video you're watching, but every single one of these "review" clips on Youtube show that more than "light force" is needed to bend one of these things in half. There's struggle. And it's much easier to break something if you've ALREADY thrown it on the ground 5 or 6 times and have shattered the glass.
It's not like folding a piece of cheese, for crying out loud.