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Who says the iPad is fragile? Spotless after a 50mph drop to pavement!

More like 47.41243567 mph...

After billions of precise calculations, ironically some requiring actual calculus, your story seems unlikely. The iPad would have left your vehicle at exactly 47.41243567 mph, not the ludicrous figure of 50 mph you so carelessly espoused. In the future, please check your facts with the "Official iPad In An Apple Case Left On An Automobile Top Friction Facts Web Calculator" to keep from looking so foolish. 50 mph, sheesh nobody in their right mind is going to fall for such malarky, I mean really.:):)

Who can you believe these days?
 
This story has nothing to do with the iPad being fragile or not. It was in a case, and the case took the brunt of the damage, so the durability of the iPad had nothing to do with the fact it survived, the case was the reason. Misleading thread title if you ask me.

Leave the iPad out of the case and do the same thing, then come back and tell us who says the iPad is fragile.
 
ARH1956 said:
After billions of precise calculations, ironically some requiring actual calculus, your story seems unlikely. The iPad would have left your vehicle at exactly 47.41243567 mph, not the ludicrous figure of 50 mph you so carelessly espoused. In the future, please check your facts with the "Official iPad In An Apple Case Left On An Automobile Top Friction Facts Web Calculator" to keep from looking so foolish. 50 mph, sheesh nobody in their right mind is going to fall for such malarky, I mean really.:):)

Who can you believe these days?
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Thanks door doing the calculations, I was too lazy to do them
By the way my iPad thinks 47.41243567 is a phone number not a link
 
wakka092 said:
I can corroborate. I had my iPad in the same Apple case. I had left it on top of my Mustang and after pulling out of the parking space I heard a huge clunk. The iPad had slipped directly off of the top and onto the pavement, presumedly flat on it. No scratches or dents. Would have been a different story caseless.
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Another reason I am happy with my Apple iPad Case. LOL Though it never leaves my Skooba Netbook Messenger Bag - unless I am using it. :) Nice to know that a short fall off my lap might save me. :)


iWannaBeAdored said:
Jeez. Why do you have to doubt him? He has been a member here since '07 and why would he randomly post this?

Glad your iPad is ok!
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Amen on both accounts. :)

Not like some "newbies" on here with one post hawking some APP or product... :mad:

We all have our absented minded moments. :eek: I lost a Palm Treo many years ago when I got a phone call as I was entering my car. After the call I left it on the roof of my car as I entered it. :eek: So crap happens at times. Was never able to find my Treo though. Lucky for the PO he did find his iPad. :)
 
I've got a marware leather case (actually it's "Eco-Leather"!). Dropped off the top of my suitcase from about 3-4 feet, landed flat and unscathed. It was about 2mph! I can see the guys iPad slinging off the back of a car at whatever mph. If it's in a case, hits flat and hopefully on it's back, it should at least have a chance to survive.

Glad it worked out for you, bud. :cool:
 
MigsVuitton said:
I was under the impression Mac users weren't douche bags. But then I saw this forum which totally debunks that thought.
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I was under the impression that the biggest douche bags of all were the ones who spend their free time trolling internet forums just to call other people douche bags. The post quoted above definitely does not debunk that thought. :rolleyes:
 
mpuck972 said:
This story has nothing to do with the iPad being fragile or not. It was in a case, and the case took the brunt of the damage, so the durability of the iPad had nothing to do with the fact it survived, the case was the reason. Misleading thread title if you ask me.

Leave the iPad out of the case and do the same thing, then come back and tell us who says the iPad is fragile.
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And you know this guy's case "took the brunt of the damage" how exactly? Oh, that's right...you don't have the first friggin clue, because you weren't there, and haven't even seen a photo of the damage. But of course you're going to take the slant that Apple couldn't possibly have built yet another highly durable piece of tech, just look at your stupid signature. :rolleyes:
 
GamecockMac said:
I was under the impression that the biggest douche bags of all were the ones who spend their free time trolling internet forums just to call other people douche bags. The post quoted above definitely does not debunk that thought. :rolleyes:
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A guy wants to talk about how a case saved his iPad and people are questioning his story as if he had something to gain from telling it. Yes, I'm calling them douche bags.
 
MigsVuitton said:
A guy wants to talk about how a case saved his iPad and people are questioning his story as if he had something to gain from telling it. Yes, I'm calling them douche bags.
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I'm not certain resorting to name calling is especially effective if your goal is to point out how childish someone else may have been.
 
MigsVuitton said:
A guy wants to talk about how a case saved his iPad and people are questioning his story as if he had something to gain from telling it. Yes, I'm calling them douche bags.
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Okay, I don't know that I can disagree with that assessment, but to attempt to extend that generalization to all "Mac users" is pretty absurd. Especially since not all the members here own or use a Mac (this is the iPad section, after all).
 
These types of stories don't prove much except that in this case the OP was very lucky. I've read lots of reports about how the iPhone is so rugged (dropped from a rooftop onto concrete and still working, etc.) and yet when my iPhone (still in its leather case) fell from waist level onto an asphalt driveway the fall caused several rows of the display to stop working. Basically, YMMV, but these are all relatively fragile devices.
 
Battlestar said:
It didn't fall off until you reached 50MPH? Do we have any witnesses to back this up?

The whole story seems a little far fetched to me.
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I once left a small Moleskine notebook on top of my Mom's car, not even the normal size one the small one. We went across town, whipping around turns and going 50+ mph, and when we parked, there was my notebook sitting on the roof. I felt like an idiot and thanked God that it didn't fall off, because it had important drawings in it. That was about one fourth the weight of an iPad.


And fs454, congratulations dude. You must have some pretty good karma :D
 
I wanna see pics

I wanna see the pics of this. I believe it, it depends on the fall sometimes you get lucky.

I know some iphone screens shatter pretty easily from a short fall if it is at the right angle.
 
GamecockMac said:
I was under the impression that the biggest douche bags of all were the ones who spend their free time trolling internet forums just to call other people douche bags. The post quoted above definitely does not debunk that thought. :rolleyes:
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Now that his iPad is safe and working properly he will probably drop it off of the kitchen table and it will smash.
 
heck, and my iPad sustained a 3-4 foot drop onto hardwood while in a case and ended up dented to the point the power button wouldn't work. $419 replacement from apple later, so congrats on this not happening to you.
 
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