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posted by janrinok on Tuesday August 30 2016, @06:32PM   Printer-friendly
from the not-a-good-day-for-Apple dept.

TechCrunch reports on a lawsuit being brought against Apple by owners of the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus who say a design defect causes the touchscreens to become unresponsive. The loss of responsiveness is often preceded by a flickering gray bar appearing across the top of the screen. iFixit discusses a few possible sources of the "Touch Disease" problem, with the most popular theory being that the Touch IC chips lose contact with the logic board due to the phone bending.

The complaint [PDF], filed in California's Northern District federal court, alleges that Apple is aware of the design flaw and has concealed it from consumers by refusing to acknowledge or repair it. It also suggests that the 5s and 5c protected against this problem in various ways, so it's not as if Apple didn't know it was a possibility. The 6s and Plus got stiffened to prevent bending, as well.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 31 2016, @01:07AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 31 2016, @01:07AM (#395532)

    Not really. The 2010 MacBook Air (last major redesign) had a problem where the palmrest would bend if you rested your wrists on it. Eventually the trackpad would stop working due to this defect (easiest way to determine when purchasing second hand was to close the lid and look to see if there was a gap between the top and bottom of the clamshell).

    The 2015 MacBook is much smaller and thinner than the last MacBook Air. It does not have this problem. The bending problem was actually rectified on the 2013 MacBook Air.

    So we have evidence of Apple making something thinner and lighter while also making it less prone to bending.

    The 6s and 6s+ are *slightly* thinner than the original 6 and 6+; they do not exhibit this flexing problem even though they have been floating around in people's pockets for a year already.