No links at all, purely based on assumption as the complaints died down after a while. I know some manufacturers quietly implement fixes on products with early issues, and I wouldn't be surprised if Apple did this to.
But I still keep my Air 2 in its thick case just in case this was never fixed.
I do not want to go down the same road with an expensive iPad Pro, I want to enjoy the thinness without having to compromise aesthetics.
Or it is quite likely that it was not as bendable as the clickbait™ YouTube videos made it appear to be.
I think the lesson here is to take good care of your equipment, regardless of what durability test is done on it. Accidents happen, at various levels of severity.
The surface pro 6 through the same barrage of tests. It doesn't fold in half at all actually. It even continued to functioin after being bent a bit and bent back.
FWIW many of the iPad pros that have suffered a “bendgate™“ mishap also still continue to function too.
After watching more of his videos, it is interesting that he stops short on some devices (case cracking), and on others continues to the point of catastrophic failure. He keeps referencing issues like dropping items, sitting on, or other types of accidents as being the point of doing the bend tests too. Why not build something that simulates such situations in a repeatable fashion?
Hell, even dropping various sized bags of flower from a standard height until the point of failure would provide some relatable stress testing, and be fully repeatable. Plus, channels that do these calibrated tests could still do the universlaly patented and perfectly calibrated hand bending tests to close out the videos for fans that love destruction.
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