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iPad Will the new iPads have bending issues?
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There is no doubt “some sort of force” while in your backpack bent your iPad. It would need to be protected between two hard flat surfaces. It did not bend all by itself.
If he didn't bend it, who did? We can assume it didn't arrive bent, nor did it bend from battery swelling unless it's very old.
However, Apple chose to use zero reinforcement around the charging port, which is a weak spot. This bizarre oversight massively increases the risk of a bend there. If Samsung can reinforce weak spots in tablets, and Apple can in iPhones, I don't see why they left the new iPads more vulnerable than necessary. I'm not claiming they bend easily, but they DEFINITELY and simply could have been reinforced along the short edge with the charging port.
Also, Jack, doesn't requiring two large hardback books to protect it in a backpack kinda negate the extreme thinness?
The thing is, the thin tablet is bendable. It has no reinforcement whatsoever, other than the back cover and the glass front. It'd be pretty easy to bend it, especially lengthwise, with those two batteries on both sides of the Logic Board helping the bending moment. The slight edge around back cover of the tablet is not enough to keep it from losing stability. And, that edge is the only reinforcement it has, if it can even be called reinforcement. Glass front cannot be taken into the equation, or any kind of flat thin metal strips.
I was replying in regards to the guy that claimed his pocket bent his phone without sitting down on it...
I agree with what you're saying about the iPad, though. Some titanium reinforcement would have been prudent, and is clearly an option considering its use in other devices.
Didn't you see my post and pictures above? It's a fake photo. It didn't bend like that.
For the second time, I was replying to someone who commented on what I said about the guy that bent his iPhone.
By the way, your forensic evidence isn't convincing.
What an embarrassing way to conduct yourself. It's not my fault no one was impressed by your 'research'.
My glasses bent mine. I fixed it by taking off the progressives and putting on readers.
Tom
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I have bigger problems here than worrying about bending my new iPad!
The grooved seam around the edge is the only reinforcement. That groove would make the back cover stiffer. But, not the centre longitudinal thin metal strip, even with those 3-4 small pieces glued to it. The two heavy batteries on both side of the logic board, would only help the iPad to bend across the middle, longitudinally, in time. Some screenshots from that destroying video.
I found that video by chance. Never seen one before. Quite disturbing. I'd be very careful using that iPad, like holding it or picking it up from a corner, or putting it in a soft backpack, or not laying it on an exactly flat surface.
You mean, THIS video, with this very prudent screenshot?
The one where he had to bend the bejeezus out of it in portrait position to get it to break, without any sort of protective case? And that would make you wary about picking it up?
My god man, get a hold of yourself. Maybe splash some cold water on your face.
Is that what's needed now, to watch a video?
You have decided that someone's iPad must unequivocally have bent in their backpack because you saw a video of someone "deliberately" trying to bend theirs — despite the person in that video saying it has remarkably good structural integrity. And now you're too scared to pick up a device that you don't even own.
You're either trolling or in need of help.
Not really. In time, it'd be like that butterfly keyboard saga...
It's a discretionary buy - if you're really worried about bending then don't buy one. I have the 13" Pro and I don't worry about this.