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posted by takyon on Friday December 21 2018, @01:55AM   Printer-friendly
from the flexible-technology dept.

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:

  1. Have you recently purchased a nice shiny "defective" gadget? Good, it should be under warranty.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.

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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday December 21 2018, @02:39AM (2 children)

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Friday December 21 2018, @02:39AM (#777068) Homepage

    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.

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 21 2018, @04:14AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 21 2018, @04:14AM (#777089)

    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

      by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Friday December 21 2018, @04:29AM (#777091) Homepage

      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.