{"id":27618,"date":"2016-12-26T00:00:45","date_gmt":"2016-12-26T07:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.technightowl.com\/?p=27618"},"modified":"2016-12-25T17:15:01","modified_gmt":"2016-12-26T00:15:01","slug":"newsletter-issue-891-apple-and-consumer-reports-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/blog\/2016\/12\/newsletter-issue-891-apple-and-consumer-reports-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter Issue #891: Apple and Consumer Reports \u2014 Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you remember the &#8220;bendgate&#8221; scandal? Perhaps not, because it was never a scandal, but some wiseacre got the bright idea to post a video on YouTube showing how &#8220;easy&#8221; it was to bend an iPhone 6 Plus. That someone was willing to seriously damage one&#8217;s expensive smartphone seemed crazy enough, unless, of course, the ad revenues were sufficient to buy a new one and then some. Or pretend to Apple that it wasn&#8217;t his or her fault.<\/p>\n<p>But whenever Apple is involved, it&#8217;s easy to see a profitable reason to want to create some fake news or a phony scandal in order to generate hits and increase ad revenues. But at the end of the day, there was nothing wrong with the iPhone 6 Plus. It was strong enough to survive normal use, but that didn&#8217;t stop others from putting it to the test.<\/p>\n<p>So Square Trade, a company that sells extended warranties online and in stores, ran some informal tests. Since they have to provide repairs in case your covered device is damaged or develops a defect, it was in their own best interests to see, and actually damaging the iPhone 6 Plus wasn&#8217;t very easy. That takes us to Consumer Reports, who ran their own tests in 2014, with great fanfare, against competing gear from HTC, LG and Samsung, and pronounced the iPhone&#8217;s durability as acceptable. 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