What a crazy past 24 hours it has been for the new iPhone 6 Plus!
Yesterday, Apple created a storm once again and not because they’re announcing more products or building another spaceship, but because people are now reporting all over about the newly launched iPhone 6 Plus bending in strange ways.
Oh shibby! Considering the fact that they’ve just sold over 10 million new iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus smartphones within only 3 days of the launch, breaking all previous sales records.
The problem, dubbed “#bendgate” on Twitter, has been identified by some users who left their new Apple 6.22-inch by 3.06-inch phablet-like smartphones in their pockets for extended periods of time. As we speak, the hashtag and the issue has already gone completely out of control. Needless to say,it’s a tech, marketing, and PR disaster.
don’t put your iphone 6 in your pocket y’all http://t.co/pp8UsWwd9k pic.twitter.com/PLXYagARMq
— ⊀treenz (@katrinalome) September 23, 2014
Now that the reports of the bending iPhone 6 Plus have “trended” all over the world and picked up by every single major media outlet you can think of, it still begs the question, “Why does it bend?”.
You’d think that these new owners must have been careless enough or could have probably used brute force and hence resulting in the unfortunate #bendgate issue. What if these owners were just not careful enough with the iPhone 6 Plus? Maybe their Apple smartphones bent because they kept it in their back pockets and sat on it? Like this Twitter user says:
In all fairness, anyone who puts a gadget made of aluminium in their back pocket and sits down deserves for it to bend. #bendgate
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