Lol the new iPad Pro’s are a sheet of aluminum foil

The new iPad Pro’s are 5.9 mm thin but the actual ‘chassis’ is even thinner than that, it’s pretty much a sheet of aluminum foil and it bends with minimal effort. How do people compare this cheap crap to a Surface Pro? Apple doesn’t even care at this point, they’ve been through this before with the iPhone 6 bendgate and they’ve done it again. Apple doesn’t learn from their mistakes, they don’t deserve their reputation for quality.

Rant over, thank you for reading.

Conversation 22 comments

  • Angusmatheson

    17 November, 2018 - 12:04 am

    <p>We just got one for work. It feels pretty solid. The keyboard is back ordered and not arriving until next week, so we’ll see how it holds up when the scribe carries it around all day. In the hand it doesn’t feel flimsy.</p>

    • FalseAgent

      17 November, 2018 - 7:48 am

      <blockquote><em><a href="#369115">In reply to Angusmatheson:</a></em></blockquote><p>for you I hope you never have to eat your words.</p>

      • Angusmatheson

        21 November, 2018 - 2:09 pm

        <blockquote><em><a href="#369181">In reply to FalseAgent:</a></em></blockquote><p>Actually since I wrote that I watched some terrifying YouTube videos. I do hope the employee who is getting this, does get too crazy…that being said she is a 60 year old woman who loves to knit and who has been with us 40 years – Not the craziest user.</p>

    • Jason Peter

      25 November, 2018 - 3:05 pm

      <blockquote><em><a href="#369115">In reply to Angusmatheson:</a></em></blockquote><p><br></p><p>Have you tried to vigorously fold it in half yet? You know, the kind of things other reasonable people would do with a $1000+ tablet…</p><p>But the question everyone wants answered is, “will it blend?"</p>

  • Tony Barrett

    17 November, 2018 - 5:09 am

    <p>From what I've seen and read so far, minimal force is required to actually bend this thing. People have reported them being bent out of the box, or after a few days being carried around in a back pack. It used to be that you could be reasonably sure you'd get a high quality device from Apple, but now it's all about reducing quality, increasing price and taking ever larger profits per device sold.</p>

    • Angusmatheson

      21 November, 2018 - 2:20 pm

      <blockquote><em><a href="#369162">In reply to ghostrider:</a></em></blockquote><p>I think it isn’t about reducing quality – but obsessive drive for thinness. And not realizing what people do with their devices. Famously I with the iPhone 6 Plus – not realizing that they would bend when poeole put them in their back pockets. I bet no one in apple even through that people would do that. I have one. It is super thin and light. Did the old iPad Pro need to get thinner and lighter? Really. It was already super thin before. That being said before apple created the MacBook Air – everyone was happy making either giant laptops or crappy pudgy small screened netbooks. We have all benefitted from Apple pushing the industry to make smaller devices. It does seem get rediclous. It reminds me of the great old SNL about Steve Jobs and the iPod micro.</p>

      • waethorn

        21 November, 2018 - 2:50 pm

        <blockquote><em><a href="#370858">In reply to Angusmatheson:</a></em></blockquote><p>It's about Apple reducing their BOM to maximize their bottom-line. Less material = greater profit. It has nothing to do with the fashion style of being thinnest.</p>

        • lvthunder

          Premium Member
          26 November, 2018 - 11:19 am

          <blockquote><em><a href="#370878">In reply to Waethorn:</a></em></blockquote><p>How do you know? Were you there when they made these decisions? I doubt it.</p>

      • Xatom

        19 December, 2018 - 11:00 pm

        <blockquote><em><a href="#370858">In reply to Angusmatheson:</a></em></blockquote><p>i think it's both. Pkg weight and cost reductio.</p>

  • willr

    21 November, 2018 - 1:55 pm

    <p>The JerryRigEverything YouTube channel just did the same bend test to the Surface Pro 6 and he couldn't bend it, it was still working even after him trying to bend it repeatedly! Surface is higher quality than the crap Apple is putting out these days and people need to know. Apple used to be quality but not anymore</p>

    • lordbaal1

      24 November, 2018 - 4:02 pm

      <blockquote><em><a href="#370826">In reply to willr:</a></em></blockquote><p>With enough force, you can bend anything.</p>

  • waethorn

    21 November, 2018 - 2:51 pm

    <p>Just FYI: the difference between Apple and Microsoft is that Apple doesn't subsidize their hardware with software sales.</p>

    • jrswarr

      Premium Member
      20 December, 2018 - 6:10 am

      <blockquote><em><a href="#370879">In reply to Waethorn:</a></em></blockquote><p>You are correct – they subsidize software with hardware sales….</p>

  • Jeffsters

    24 November, 2018 - 11:12 pm

    <p>People do compare…that's why Ipad sales are what 10x surface sales? </p>

  • curtisspendlove

    25 November, 2018 - 9:22 pm

    <p>Are people still trying to bend $1,000+ devices? Seems unwise. </p>

    • Jackwagon

      Premium Member
      22 December, 2018 - 8:21 pm

      <blockquote><em><a href="#372492">In reply to curtisspendlove:</a></em></blockquote><p>Supposedly, some of the bent units wound up bending as they "cool" from manufacture, so they're bent out of the box.</p>

  • willr

    19 December, 2018 - 5:43 pm

    <p>Apple just released a statement to The Verge about this:</p><p>"Apple has confirmed to&nbsp;<em>The Verge</em>&nbsp;that some of its 2018 iPad Pros are shipping with a very slight bend in the aluminum chassis. But according to the company, this is a side effect of the device’s manufacturing process and shouldn’t worsen over time or negatively affect the flagship iPad’s performance in any practical way. Apple does not consider it to be a defect."</p><p><br></p><p>go to the verge for the rest of the article</p>

    • Jeffsters

      19 December, 2018 - 7:47 pm

      <blockquote><em><a href="#384389">In reply to willr:</a></em></blockquote><p>I enjoy using Apple products but I can’t defend that asinine statement. Steve is rolling in his grave.</p>

      • Thom77

        22 December, 2018 - 5:05 pm

        <blockquote><em><a href="#384404">In reply to Jeffsters:</a></em></blockquote><p><br></p><p>You mean "Just avoid holding it in that way,"&nbsp;Steve Jobs? </p>

    • red.radar

      Premium Member
      19 December, 2018 - 7:48 pm

      <blockquote><em><a href="#384389">In reply to willr:</a></em></blockquote><p>Pretty balsy statement from Apple. I buy a lot of apple products, but I buy them becuase I expect high quality. For them to come out and say " its a defect but you will be ok…" not impressed. Good thing they still have a regular ipad…</p><p><br></p><p><br></p>

    • bbold

      22 December, 2018 - 6:00 pm

      <blockquote><em><a href="#384389">In reply to willr:</a></em></blockquote><p>Three words: Return, Return, Return!</p>

  • tmslayton

    19 December, 2018 - 7:57 pm

    <p>Ugh, I don't buy Apple products anymore. They have just become too expensive.</p>

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