https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2018/11/16/18098535/apple-ipad-pro-2018-bend-test-video-jerryrigeverything
First iPhone 6, and now this.
I was gonna post about how you'd think Apple would have engineered around those failure points along the edge (the ports and holes at which the iPad predictably fractures), but then I realized that this is Apple we're talking about. They'd never go through the trouble of carving out precious internal volume for useful features like headphone jacks, extra USB inputs, and the like, let alone structural members to reinforce design weak points. When the iPhone 4 first ushered in this frankly beautiful glass-metal sandwich design, I thought the purpose of that metal strip was that of structural support, but now it's a glaring weakness by design.
One guy at Apple: "I think we should reinforce these failure points and think about adding some structural integrity. These are going to be in the hands of a lot of people. We should make sure people don't have to spend money replacing their ipads unless they really have to."
The rest of Apple:
https://c8.alamy.com/comp/B705P6/businesspeople-laughing-in-office-B705P6.jpg
Tech reviewers would knock it for being too heavy to carry around, because tech reviewers' standards of lightness are way too high.
When sturdily built 15" laptops are criticized for being too difficult to carry in a backpack, that's when you know you're rating on an arbitrary metric.
I think honestly a lot of companies (apple excluded) have taken JRE's pressure test as lessons on what to do better. JRE hardly does tablets, I'd find it more interesting if he bought some recent iPad models and did the bend test to see if this is just a problem with the new iPad or this is something everyone has been sleeping on for a while.
It's incredibly alarming as tablets can often fall down couches and be squished by people unknowingly sitting on a tablet, I'd hate to see something I bought bend like this that badly
He's also intentionally making a point to break it, its hard to tell how durable it is taking care of it
you aren't exactly sitting on this thing
Seems something that can easily break if bent the wrong way in a bag or sat on, etc.
Fuck my phone bends from me squatting, I hate to imagine what it does to this.
someone accidentally sits on the thing when you toss it on the sofa and it's gone, that's the point
stop
using
aluminum
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