The Verge:
A few blocks away from Apple’s bustling campus in Cupertino is a rather nondescript building. Inside is absolutely the last place on earth you’d want to be if you were an iPhone. It’s here where Apple subjects its newest models to the kinds of things they might run into in the real world: drops, pressure, twisting, tapping. Basically all the things that could turn your shiny gadget into a small pile of metal and glass.
I got a tour of this part of Apple’s operation many years ago and was very surprised to see just how much stress testing Apple did in-house on everything.
Samsung prebends their phones.
http://jeffcarlson.com/2014/09/08/samsung-galaxy-alpha-design-or-the-powerlessness-of-not-saying-no/
This whole fake bend fiasco really confirmed the ugly face of the obsession of Apple-haters, and the pathetic, click-whore media who jumped on the story and ran it for 2 days straight based on a single fucking video and a couple photos.
The comments on the site are insane. The haters don’t seem to grasp that this access is in response to the ballyhoo.
I hate to be cynical (but its hard not to be when talking about most “news” sites these days). I have to wonder if any of these “bend-gate” bloggers are getting any kickbacks from any hedge funds or big Wall St. traders.
Does anyone wonder where they get the money to buy all these devices they’re breaking / attempting to break?
Don’t attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.