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Some iPad Pros ship a little bent, and Apple says that's normal
Gadget-makers have long played with the idea of bendable displays, but this isn't what they were going for: Apple has confirmed that some brand-new iPad Pro units have a slight bend to them—and this is expected and not a defect.
There are numerous stories and images of very slight bends on brand-new devices on the MacRumors forums, and The Verge's Chris Welch observed the same issue in his own iPad.
When The Verge reached out to Apple for comment, the company told the publication that the bending is "a side effect of the device's manufacturing process and shouldn't worsen over time or negatively affect the flagship iPad's performance in any practical way." (The Verge's words.) Apple says the bending happens as a result of a cooling process used on the components when the device is manufactured.
Defective gadget return policy:
- Have you recently purchased a nice shiny "defective" gadget? Good, it should be under warranty.
- Is it actually defective? Maybe it's bent or has some other flaw? Good, good, we wouldn't want to be selling you something broken.
- Did you purchase it from Apple? Specifically, did you buy a nice, shiny new iPad Pro? You know, the one that can cost you upwards of $1k? Don't worry, it's supposed to be that way. You didn't get a defective device or damaged goods. You got what you paid for. A bent iPad Pro.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 21 2018, @02:34AM (6 children)
Seriously, what is it going to take before the Apple Board of Directors tells Cook to retire ?
I've been a long-time customer of Apple products but as long as Cook is in charge, they will get not one dollar more from me.
Bean counters = a guaranteed path to mediocrity. Every single time.
It happened with Ferrari, it happened with BMW, and now it is happening with Apple.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday December 21 2018, @02:39AM (2 children)
Apple's always been shit, just that now they don't have a stinky junkie megalomaniac deadbeat-dad cult-leader as their figurehead. So to get back into that mode, they would make more sales if they hired Donald Trump as their CEO. Not only does he know business and the art of the deal, but will release a gold-plated Trump edition that will sell like hotcakes amongst the Arab and Armenian demographics -- and he will bring Apple manufacturing back into America and create American jobs, and those iPads may be a little more expensive but you know they will be made right, not like cheap Chinese shit.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 21 2018, @04:14AM (1 child)
It'll be interesting to see if the GM workers do anything in January and if Trump will respond. If January, then watch GM get raided by ICE.
If not January, wait until August. The heat makes people agitated. I might have been off just by a year in predicting 2018 riots. They've been rescheduled for 2019. (I realize I am now doomed to post the same thing next year around this time.)
- Stock market is about to crash.
- Next BRICS moves away from the US dollar, and the BRICS bank may also operate in the EU. (Probably also unofficially as the "special purpose vehicle.")
- Martial law locking us behind a Big Beautiful Wall.
- The car runs out of gas on the side of the road. The walk to the gas station will be for your own good.
unless
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday December 21 2018, @04:29AM
Modded up. But disagreed, because GM will be between a rock and a hard place. They will have to choose between replacing cheap labor with citizens and maybe even moving factories, which may turn the rest of America against them especially after the bailout.
Whatever happens, the rest of America will hear about it. And if the truth is something they don't want to hear, then they will push politically. I agree that your first two points are a possibility, but common Middle America (well-paid unions) do not like cheap labor and they will not be sad to let it go in favor of those who keep their money in the country and don't shout, "Viva la Raza" every 5 seconds.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 21 2018, @03:40AM
What's it going to take to get people to stop buying garbage items that are also vastly overpriced? As long as people are too stupid to avoid buying the products the assrapings will continue.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 21 2018, @03:58AM
I've come to the personal conclusion that Apple really make overpriced junk now. I was never a fanboi, but I did like many of their products.
But alas, I've finally given up on Apple, except maaaybe for genuine refurbished iMacs, and they would have to be last years model at a heavily discounted price-at least iMacs come with more than two ports. But a $700 Windows laptop with better specs than a $1500 Apple laptop is a no brainer now.
MacOS is still much better, stronger, faster than Windows 10, but most releases of MacOS tout useless features like 5000 more emojiis, dark themes (whooopdedoo-win3.1 had them 25 years ago!), or reversed natural-scrolling that is opposite of what we've been using for 20 years. Plus they've been at the forefront of this horrendous low contrast, low differential monochrome grey-text, grey-icons, grey-active-button, more-grey-inactive-button trend that's been going on for the past few years.
It's difficult for me to think of the last thing Apple came out with that made me go ooooo, ahhhhh. Maybe the first iPhone? Love it or hate it, that was one delicious looking device when SJ showed it. Or something that made me think 'that is so convenient, why didn't someone come out with that earlier". Maybe TimeMachine? Since Jobs 'left' we have the Apple of today, run by the only beancounters as you said it seems.
Apple of today:
Replaces ubiquitous USB-A ports with USB-C ports so they can squeeze another $10-$50 from customers for dongles.
Can't use the mouse when it's charging because the charging port is on the bottom of the mouse.
Horrible, horrible current generation of keyboards that feel like you typing on a gummy bear.
Removing function keys and replacing them with a plastic strip.
Apple raises prices for mediocre hardware upgraded models. (eg. Macbook Air)
iPhone switching the default photo format to highly compressed .heic instead of .jpg when you uprade to IOS11. None of my photo applications can read .heic files (except for their own crappy apps but no, I am not ever ever using Photos or iPhoto)
Major rewrites of Aperture, Final Cut Pro, and Apple Office that have so much major functionality removed from previous versions that they are essentially unusable.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 21 2018, @09:40AM
And apple customers love to bend over and get bent.