Then it will be the new iPad wafer
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Try bending an LG OLED or a Sony AF8 TV and see how much a wafer thin piece of glass helps provide rigidity, it doesn't. Thickness has to increase over surface area to provide rigidity and unless the iPad is using a really tough glass it wont.
Example being toughened glass is five times stronger than annealed glass of the same thickness. The iPad Pro 2018 seems to have a much thinner glass which unless super tough will reduce the strength and integrity of that glass as the surface increases. Also its a first generation product of a new design and already new units have arrived warped. A iPad should not crumple if dropped. Its a tool and should be strong enough for a few drops in its life, and to be able to arrive new and not warped in the box.
My old Air 2 has had a few drops, I'm disabled and due to high levels of Morphine for pain I tend to loose my coordination now and then. My iPad Air 2 has never once buckled on impact in over 4 years, but the fact that the new one seems so easily bent is a a big concern. The iPhone 6 plus was weak and some bent, the 6s plus had points in its chassis that were made more substantial like around the volume buttons were it bent easily and was also made out of a higher grade Aluminium to try to resist the whole bending issue in the first place. I love the look of the new iPads but it has to much empty space around the edges for magnets by the looks of it which may weaken it possibly and it seems to bend and crumple far to easily too. I guess we will have to wait and see how durable they are.
I’m not saying these iPads won’t bend, they will, of course they will, given enough force. If you look around you’ll find bent iPad reports for the iPad Air, Mini, Air 2, all of the iPad Pro’s and all iPhones from the iPhone 4 onward.
The thing we’re debating here is the fact that the first video posted is showing a structurally compromised iPad being bent. There’s a world of difference between that and one that isn’t.
As for the difference between a 55” OLED and an iPad, that’s another thing altogether, aside from the very significant size difference. Apple has long been rumoured to use aluminosilicate glass in its iPads for a number of years now, I’d put pound to penny my OLED TV doesn’t.
I’m sure many folk on these forums will know by now that I have severe nerve damage. I take a massive amount of morphine and other pills all day every day. Dropping things is de rigueur for me.
My first generation iPad Pro has been dropped more times than I can count, as was my 10.5”, with no consequences whatsoever. So maybe one of those would be better for you if you’re worried.
For what it’s worth, my 2018 12.9” iPad Pro has been dropped three times so far, which made me draw breath as I’ve not yet taken delivery of its back skin (I always fit a skin because I like to use them without a case, but protect them from scratching due to inevitable drops.) So far though, not so much as a scratch. Maybe I’m just lucky.
