The ‘disease’ of the iPhone – Vanguardia Liberal

this is Not about falling from great heights. Users of the iPhone 6 Plus claim that just a drop a night table for the display of the device starts to fail, or sometimes they stop to receive orders.

Apple acknowledged that the screen of your iPhone 6 Plus you can stay locked in certain scenarios, but says that when it happens it is due to misuse and not a manufacturing defect of the phone. The company’s solution is to replace the phone, but the customer must pay $ 150 dollars.

however, the phenomenon is known as 'disease touch' in the iPhone has been the latest of several phenomena that are put under the magnifying glass the new manufacturing model of Apple devices.

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This week Apple acknowledged in a statement posted on Apple.com/support/iphone6plus-multitouch the screen of the iPhone 6 Plus freezes up and does not receive new instructions, a phenomenon that is popularly referred to as 'disease touch'.

The company claims that its users are to blame for the phenomenon to occur.

Specifically, Apple found that "some iPhone 6 Plus can exhibit flicker or problems with your system multi-touch after being dropped several times on a hard surface and subjecting the device to other types of stress."

The users whose devices have shown this behavior do not feel they have been given a treatment especially strong to their phones.

In fact, previous models of the iPhone and hundreds of models from other manufacturers can perfectly withstand a reasonable amount of mechanical stress and fall without experiencing anything like the 'disease touch of the iPhone 6 Plus', which by comparison would seem to be a device much more fragile.

No problem,

until that happens

"this Whole issue of 'bendgate' and the disease touch seems to be a mockery by the amount of exposure you give on the news. Until that happens to one", says the user of Reddit 'Mastagon'. Bendgate was as he met the scandal that sparked the iPhone 6 Plus when it was learned that some devices are folded within the pockets of their owners.

"I have Not had a functional phone since August," explains Mastagon, "and the only solution was to pay $ 389 dollars to Apple and give them my device is damaged".

Another user, 'gilbertsmith', he says: "the problem is that the manufacturing defect of the entire line 6 and 6 Plus will be that the replacement also fails," and making reference to the chip that causes the damage touch phones adds: "there are videos of repair workshops that show how Apple saved on materials with the model 6 and 6 Plus. The 5S had the protection of metal around these chips. Models 6 and 6 Plus have a sticker. There is No stiffness. In addition, removed the padding that kept the chip secured to the card. Now there is only welding that it will break if the card is bent. And the card is bent, because it has to be thin and light!"

Other criticisms of the decisions of Apple

The iPhone is not the only Apple device that faces criticism by the way as it is manufactured; the new MacBook Pro Retina has been qualified as a team, "impossible to fix, modify, or maintain" by the publication Kile Wiens, director of the publication iFixit.

The team, for example, has the storage disk soldered to the main board, making it impossible to replace it by another of greater capacity or speed in the future.

"The MacBook Pro Retina is the laptop more difficult to repair that we have disarmed," says Wiens. "The cards RAM are soldered to the main board and the battery is glued to the chassis".

Apple boasts that your computer is made of highly recyclable aluminum, but contacts Wiens in the recycling industry of computers will indicate that they cannot recycle aluminum with glass paste as happens with the screen on the new MacBook.

The new iMacs are a similar case, where you replace an entire unit with 8 GB of RAM, at a cost of several million pesos, in place of invest a couple of hundreds of thousands of pesos in cards, RAM, just because the unit is sealed and does not give access to the main board.

The business model of Apple, each time more focused on which your customers depend on the company for repair, upgrade or maintenance of their devices, is not friendly with the environment.