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posted by martyb on Saturday December 29 2018, @06:41PM   Printer-friendly
from the get-bent dept.

Let's do the time warp again. It's just a bend in the middle of your new apple device, a little legal shuffling and lawyers laughing all night. Let's do the bendgate again. This time it's the iPad Pro with new devices being shipped pre-bent to customers. Is this Apple subtly telling their customers to get bent? Will Apple ever learn? Will we get a Bendgate the third? Tune in six months from now to find out.


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  • (Score: 3, Disagree) by Rosco P. Coltrane on Saturday December 29 2018, @06:54PM (4 children)

    by Rosco P. Coltrane (4757) on Saturday December 29 2018, @06:54PM (#779780)

    Hey, I'm all for suing Apple - nothing to do with them shipping bent devices, I just hate companies that don't pay their fair share of taxes. But in this case, the onus is on the customers: whoever buys a defective device knowing full well that it has a fair chance of being defective accepts that it may be defective.

    The only customers who have a case against Apple are those who bought bent iPads before the issue became public knowledge - and even then, it should serve as a reminder not to play early adopter... The others who bought one after the disclosure knew perfectly well what the risks were, and to those I say tough cookie.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 29 2018, @07:30PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 29 2018, @07:30PM (#779783)

    Not really. Apple could be on the hook for deceptive advertising.

    • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Rosco P. Coltrane on Saturday December 29 2018, @09:53PM

      by Rosco P. Coltrane (4757) on Saturday December 29 2018, @09:53PM (#779816)

      It was deceptive for the first customers who - rightfully - expected to have a flat phone. Since then, Apple came out with this "bent tablets are okay" bull. Thus, from that point onward, whoever who hasn't been living under a rock who bought an iPad knew exactly what to expect in advance. No deception there for those suckers.

  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 30 2018, @12:16AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 30 2018, @12:16AM (#779856)

    Wait it is ok for a company to fuck over its customers. But not ok for them to skip out on taxes?

    You do realize apple is ripping off the same people? Right?

    Steve Jobs spent a lifetime 'ripping off the man'. What he never realized in his hippy commune ways was, he was the man and so is everyone else...

    Until I saw this I would not expect to get a bent product out of Apple. Now I know to look for it and would give it a skip. Not everyone is glued to every speck of news that is around. This is just Apple being Apple. They have done this shit for decades now. They fuck up something royal then gaslight you into thinking it is 'ok'. Its not.

    and to those I say tough cookie
    To them I say give them their money back. I would accept a defective product and neither should you. But maybe you are just holding your phone wrong?

  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by sjames on Sunday December 30 2018, @01:06AM

    by sjames (2882) on Sunday December 30 2018, @01:06AM (#779864) Journal

    Not everyone reads the tech news with breathless anticipation. Unless Apple indicates the possibility that the pad may be bent and that they will not consider that a defect on the packaging and in the ad material, buyers may be in for a surprise and they are entitled to a refund or replacement.