Apple’s latest mess-up: Some iPad Pro 2018s are bent out of the box and Apple says that IT’S NOT A DEFECT
Note: While this article is factually correct, it does have a somewhat comedic undertone to it since Apple’s reaction to this issue quite silly in my opinion.
Apple’s no stranger to shipping out devices that tend to bend, such as iPhone 6, but now, it’s set a new record and shipping devices that are bent out of the box!
A little back story on the iPad Pro 2018
A little over a month ago, Apple released their new iPad Pro models that killed the home button, thinned the bezels and gave the device a more industrialist design along with the mandatory processor update. While this is all good news, Apple also decided to hike the price of the entry level iPad Pro to $799 (which translates to a ridiculous €900+ for those of us in Europe) for the entry-level 64GB model while still selling the 2017 10.5-inch iPad Pro for the same price it sold for initially ($649 for the base model).
Other than disappointing customers for hiking the price again, Apple didn’t pay much attention on the software side of things either. This is because even though the iPad Pro 2018 has a USB-C port, you still can’t connect a pen drive to it as iOS 12 doesn’t natively support external USB storage which really reduces the potential of this device.
What happened now?
After the device’s launch in November, some customers that set down a big chunk of cash and bought one noticed that the device was bent out of the box. Obviously, these disgruntled customers took to the internet and websites like MacRumors started getting numerous reports of bent iPad Pros. On a similar note, YouTube channel Jerry Rig Everything also revealed something quite shocking about the iPad Pro’s build quality as he badly damaged it with just his bare hands.
An iPad Pro 2018 with a nice bend from the factory. Image from MacRumors’ user “MacDonaldTrump”
Fast forwarding a few weeks, Apple decided to respond to this issue by contacting The Verge. Apple’s reaction was that the “very slight bend in the aluminum chassis” (which according to pictures isn’t so small) was caused as a side effect of the manufacturing process, specifically in relation to the cooling system, and that it was not expected to worsen over time. As a result, Apple has decided that the bend isn’t a defect even though, according to many, it most certainly is.
In my opinion, Apple’s reaction is quite bogus because I don’t think that anybody would consider an unintended bend in their devices as not being a defect.
However, the internet may be looking at this wrong as the bend may just be a feature so that we get a nostalgic throwback to the design of the iPad 1-4.
Conclusion
It seems that in the near future, Apple may have to change their ways as their stock price fell quite a bit in last few weeks and their iPhone Xr/Xs lineup doesn’t look like it’s selling too well either according to rumours.
What do you think about buying a device with a manufacturing defect? Would you pay full price for such a device or would you rather spend your money elsewhere?
Source: https://www.macrumors.com/2018/12/19/apple-2018-ipad-pros-ship-bent/
Wololo isn’t affiliated with Jerry Right Everything and the video below was only provided for reference.
after iphone 4 its all downgrade in quality, in software and eveything else.
Agreed. Starting with the 4s, it all went to ***.
Manufacturing defect =/= Engineering defect
If the device’s temperature causes it to bend, that’s an engineering defect smart guy. Have fun paying for that overpriced boomerang.
There’s just no hope for people who shop apple.
its not a defect, its a feature
I rather spend my money elsewhere.
shame on all the apple fanboys who still try to justify poor quality with esthetics.
it would not bend that easily if the freakin aluminium would be of higher quality.
apple has profit margins other companies can only dream of. stop throwing so much money down their throats.
hahahahahahaha
It’s a bendable screen guys chill
The saddest part is even though Apple products come from the same Chinese factories as the Chinese brands, the Chinese branded products have better quality.
They REMOVED the home button? Now how does this actually work? How do you navigate this thing if there is no home button?
That’s Innovation…
Again?
Bend to those who are worthy.
Again?
Again, Gunty?
tHATS RIGHT ,its the new ipad CURBE xD
We need to move technology forward and create NEW devices. We should stop remaking the same devices “slightly better”
Apples devices and software either stop working over time or are just frustrating.
Meh. If Apple weren’t so full of themselves they wouldn’t keep trying to make things out of tiny non-reinforced slivers of aluminium and sometimes with stupid butterfly keyboards that can be killed by dust. For how much these things cost they’re a complete rip-off. Stuff being misshapen out of the box IS a defect. They’re begging to be taken to court with a class action or a dozen the way they’re overpricing their non-durable phones, laptops and tablets. Hubris.
But does it come back when you throw it ?