Sunshine (she/her)@piefed.ca to Apple@lemmy.zipEnglish · 3 months agoiFixit Teardown Reveals How Apple Made the iPhone Air So Thinwww.macrumors.comexternal-linkmessage-square7fedilinkarrow-up142
arrow-up142external-linkiFixit Teardown Reveals How Apple Made the iPhone Air So Thinwww.macrumors.comSunshine (she/her)@piefed.ca to Apple@lemmy.zipEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square7fedilink
minus-squareUlrich@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up28·3 months ago As to whether the weak points will be an issue for iPhone Air owners, iFixit says “time will tell.” JRE put 215lb of pressure on it before it broke…He literally couldn’t bend it with his hands. Impressive stuff, really.
minus-squareaeronmelon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·3 months agoWe’ve come a long way since the iPhone 6.
minus-squareRunJun@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·3 months agoYa that video was genuinely surprising.
minus-squareB0rax@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up3·3 months agoApple knows what people do to their phones after release. I would not be surprised if one engineering goal was „make sure it does not fucking bend by hand!!“
minus-squareRunJun@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 months agoOh they’re acutely aware after bendgate.
JRE put 215lb of pressure on it before it broke…He literally couldn’t bend it with his hands. Impressive stuff, really.
We’ve come a long way since the iPhone 6.
Ya that video was genuinely surprising.
Apple knows what people do to their phones after release. I would not be surprised if one engineering goal was „make sure it does not fucking bend by hand!!“
Oh they’re acutely aware after bendgate.