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New iPad most bendable apple product yet
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Oh, sigh, here we go again 
And if we are lucky, all iPads in stores will get bend-tested
And if we are lucky, all iPads in stores will get bend-tested
I wonder if the smaller 11” iPad is more durable. Larger equals easier to apply force over the surface area.
Is this still a thing?
I suspect there’s absolutely no need to worry for anybody who carries this in a backpack, so long as they don’t drive over the backpack in their car.
I suspect there’s absolutely no need to worry for anybody who carries this in a backpack, so long as they don’t drive over the backpack in their car.
Who’d have thought testing an iPad to destruction would cause problems.
As for bending it, well aside from it being quite large, so probably easier to bend regardless. The screen was already broken when he was bending it, that’s a huge difference in structural integrity.
As for bending it, well aside from it being quite large, so probably easier to bend regardless. The screen was already broken when he was bending it, that’s a huge difference in structural integrity.
I can almost bet someone will sit on one and make a complaint that it’s defective. Of course they will say they didn’t sit on it just that it bent on it’s own.
I don't care for these kind of videos - I'm already aware that dropping glass onto concrete is likely to break it.
I'd imagine the shattered glass would make it much easier to bend, similar situation to a car windscreen in that the glass provides a lot of the rigidity.
Love how it's still auto rotating the display after all that abuse though!
Why, so we can skip the guy intentionally destroying the structural integrity of the iPad by abusing it for 8 minutes?
The stress he puts the iPad under would not be replicated in average daily life. Pretty stupid video if you ask me
Imagine having that much money that you can buy one of these and then break it.
In that video, when he tries bending it the screen is still intact. In the first video you posted, the screen was shattered. So again, big difference in structural integrity between them.
I bent my iPhone 5 something fierce...still not worried about bending devices.
I don’t even uses cases and I’m not worried about drops.
I don’t even uses cases and I’m not worried about drops.
I’ve no idea how YouTube works, but is the theory here that if you can be first with a video like this, you’ll earn a shedload of cash to more than pay for the iPad?
I am just happy to know that if I drop one off my couch, onto a concrete floor that suddenly and magically appears underneath it, that it will survive
If this happens to get linked on a few news sites and gets alot of clicks, they will likely earn more money than what they wasted.
This is probably true, as physics and mechanics. Maybe not more durable, but smaller more rigid and less suseptible.
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It’s videos like this that make me hate YouTube. Clickbait at its worst. Sad thing is people give this garbage views.
This. These devices get a non trivial amount of their structural integrity from the display glass. His whole testing regime is terrible, everything after the first drop test, isn't testing an iPad, it's testing a damaged iPad. Thus when he gets to the end he's not "bend testing" an iPad, he's testing a damaged one, and in this case a fatally compromised one. Maybe this iPad is easier to bend, but we don't really know from this test.
Memo to self - dont drop my electronics onto concrete repeatedly and then use all my strength to bend them.
What I want to know is if these iPads have a curvature to them along the long side, like so many of the Air 2s etc.
I know my Air 2 has a curve to it if you look down the long edge of it at a 10 degree angle. Pretty disappointing to be honest, every one I saw at the store at the time was the same.
I know my Air 2 has a curve to it if you look down the long edge of it at a 10 degree angle. Pretty disappointing to be honest, every one I saw at the store at the time was the same.
I must have gotten lucky then, because mine is flat.
Christ! Who would of thought abusing a piece of tech for 8 minutes will have an impact on its structural integrity
Although I don't like these videos I agree that in terms of "effort" required it is fairly easy to bend this even if not broken glass considered. Probably not an issue but only time will tell. I have Air 2 and no issues there after 4 years but that thing is super rigid. This is soft in comparison.
Few times it happened that I had my iPad on the sofa leaning against the back support and my partner accidentally leaned back on it. Not an issue as it wasn't sitting on it and in cases like this you realise something is wrong but with this one it may not be that forgiving.
Will see though
Few times it happened that I had my iPad on the sofa leaning against the back support and my partner accidentally leaned back on it. Not an issue as it wasn't sitting on it and in cases like this you realise something is wrong but with this one it may not be that forgiving.
Will see though
The bending does not concern me. However, what does concern me a bit is the buckling on the aluminium that occurred from the waist high drop.