http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/are-iphone-3gs-cracking/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/are-iphone-3gs-cracking/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/are-iphone-3gs-cracking/Jul 30th 2008 3:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/are-iphone-3gs-cracking/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/are-iphone-3gs-cracking/Jul 30th 2008 3:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/are-iphone-3gs-cracking/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/are-iphone-3gs-cracking/Jul 30th 2008 4:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/are-iphone-3gs-cracking/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/are-iphone-3gs-cracking/Jul 30th 2008 4:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/are-iphone-3gs-cracking/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/are-iphone-3gs-cracking/Jul 30th 2008 4:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/are-iphone-3gs-cracking/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/are-iphone-3gs-cracking/Jul 30th 2008 5:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/are-iphone-3gs-cracking/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/are-iphone-3gs-cracking/
I wonder what SuperSexyErik (^_^) has to say about this... If you're reading this article and this comment, just voice your opinion. I'm sure a lot of people would like to see how you attempt to make Apple sound good despite this news.]]>Jul 30th 2008 5:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/are-iphone-3gs-cracking/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/are-iphone-3gs-cracking/Jul 30th 2008 5:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/are-iphone-3gs-cracking/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/are-iphone-3gs-cracking/Jul 30th 2008 8:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/are-iphone-3gs-cracking/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/are-iphone-3gs-cracking/Jul 30th 2008 9:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/are-iphone-3gs-cracking/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/are-iphone-3gs-cracking/Jul 30th 2008 10:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/are-iphone-3gs-cracking/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/are-iphone-3gs-cracking/
You're a fucking tool. Why must people always insist in starting little fanboy wars like this?

Obviously there's no good way to paint this for Apple. If you had any real clue, you'd realize this instead of just wanting to push buttons and troll for an arguement.

If my white iPhone starts to crack I'll be promptly heading back to Rogers and getting it replaced. Ultimately Apple will have to answer to the problem if it becomes widespread enough because there will be at least one freak who screams out "Class Action Lawsuit" and the rest of the mindless sheep will follow.]]>Jul 30th 2008 10:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/are-iphone-3gs-cracking/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/are-iphone-3gs-cracking/Jul 30th 2008 12:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/are-iphone-3gs-cracking/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/are-iphone-3gs-cracking/
on a serious note
Hopefully they can remedy this with a simple change in the quality of the plastic used in production, without having to switch back to aluminum. And like all production plants, sometimes a large batch of products get by QC and are passed off as visually good, but are off in messures of .001". That will create a the problems we see now. What will apple do?]]>Jul 30th 2008 2:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/are-iphone-3gs-cracking/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/are-iphone-3gs-cracking/Jul 30th 2008 3:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/are-iphone-3gs-cracking/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/are-iphone-3gs-cracking/Jul 30th 2008 3:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/are-iphone-3gs-cracking/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/are-iphone-3gs-cracking/Jul 30th 2008 6:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/are-iphone-3gs-cracking/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/are-iphone-3gs-cracking/
Not to mention risking injury to the iPhone.]]>Jul 30th 2008 8:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/are-iphone-3gs-cracking/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/are-iphone-3gs-cracking/Jul 30th 2008 11:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/are-iphone-3gs-cracking/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/are-iphone-3gs-cracking/Jul 31st 2008 2:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/are-iphone-3gs-cracking/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/are-iphone-3gs-cracking/Jul 30th 2008 3:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/are-iphone-3gs-cracking/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/are-iphone-3gs-cracking/Jul 30th 2008 12:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/are-iphone-3gs-cracking/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/are-iphone-3gs-cracking/
But I have a felling this is just a case of amateur-hour "web journalism" that we see much too often where the "journalist" provides no context to the story, e.g., if this is a tiny isolated event or a much larger issue. Unless, they've personally seen evidence that points to this affecting more than a few hundred units, then it is bullshit to claim this is an "INCREASINGLY COMMON ISSUE". Seriously, tempest in a tea-pot.

And even if this was a widespread issue, this "Enderle" group guy comparing the iPhone to Windows Vista is the idiot of the week. I don't intend to write a treatise on Vista, but comparing Vista's problems with a few minor issues with the iPhone is the most asinine suggestion I've heard in while, regardless of your view on Apple.

Vista = 6-year protracted OS project met with poor reception from both consumers and the corporate market (A recent report showed only 7% of companies have adopted Vista). It's notorious for being slower, using significantly more resources than XP, and saw major hardware and software compatibility problems upon release.

iPhone = new Smartphone running OSX that integrated a large, capacitive touchscreen with an innovative, easy to use interface and intuitive software applications. Offered the first truly acceptable mobile web browsing experience, and now easy to use, lucrative, centralized software distribution store for developers. Exclusive, single carrier tie-in in many countries in deeply unpopular, and the phone is missing some popular features such as a software clipboard, multimedia messaging and video recording, any of which may come in a future software update.]]>Jul 30th 2008 3:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/are-iphone-3gs-cracking/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/are-iphone-3gs-cracking/Jul 30th 2008 3:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/are-iphone-3gs-cracking/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/are-iphone-3gs-cracking/
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So anyways, yes this is covered under the warranty as a manufacturers defect. Take it to Apple they will replace it. ]]>Jul 30th 2008 3:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/are-iphone-3gs-cracking/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/are-iphone-3gs-cracking/Jul 31st 2008 12:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/are-iphone-3gs-cracking/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/are-iphone-3gs-cracking/What is up with Apple and shoddy plastics/materials ? Cracking, bending, discoloration, chipping... Why so frequent ? It's quite amazing...]]>Jul 30th 2008 3:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/are-iphone-3gs-cracking/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/are-iphone-3gs-cracking/
Is that really so?]]>Jul 30th 2008 3:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/are-iphone-3gs-cracking/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/are-iphone-3gs-cracking/Jul 30th 2008 4:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/are-iphone-3gs-cracking/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/are-iphone-3gs-cracking/
I hear you too, but I do think it deserves to be here. The iPhone undoubtedly deserves to be scrutinised in tech blogs, and since its main feature is its cosmetic apperance, these aren't really 'minor' flaws.

As for other products having 'minor' flaws, I don't think I've ever had a piece of gadgetry display such cracks...despite spending countless hours in a harsh environment (i.e. my sweaty crotch-pocket), none of my mobile phones has ever suffered anything more than light wear on the finish and a few dents (when I drop them).

I know it's cruel, but it makes me feel all fuzzy inside to think that (potentially) thousands of iPhone users are touching their cracks and sobbing.]]>Jul 30th 2008 4:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/are-iphone-3gs-cracking/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/are-iphone-3gs-cracking/
my friend has exchanged his MBP 9 times and finally got an almost problem-free one...he has had all kinds of problems in the last 8 ones...keyboard, screen, hardware, etc... his 9th one so far has no problem, except a dent on the lid. apple store gave him a discount for the dent.]]>Jul 30th 2008 4:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/are-iphone-3gs-cracking/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/are-iphone-3gs-cracking/
Is this not the fault of the Apple fan boy? Over and over again we hear how everything that is shipped from Cupertino is absolutely perfect, without flaws, almost God-like, and everything else is completely useless crap. Even an article about the Touch 2.0 had comments describing it as perfect, but nobody except those developing it has seen a Touch 2.0. Mobile Me is described as flawless, and anybody having problems with the iPhone 2,0 firmware are proclaimed to be liars, that they don't have an iPhone and was making up stories, or they are yelled at for downloading an unsupported version of the firmware. I do have an iPhone with problems, and did not download an unsupported firmware version.

Maybe if an Apple fan would concede the occasional problem, and whatever Apple produces is not perfect rather than blaming the user, then it would not be that big an issue.

Besides, why is it OK for the authors of this site to criticize anything Microsoft does (like the recent Vista ad campaign), but bad for them to report something that is a recurring (according to some posts here) yet unfixed problem with Apple devices? ]]>Jul 30th 2008 5:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/are-iphone-3gs-cracking/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/are-iphone-3gs-cracking/
It would be reassuring to know what there cause is, and how they are being addressed rather than it all being "hushed up" because of the feeling that you mustn't speak ill of an Apple product.

Were the causes of these issues ever explained to us...I've looked around the web but all I find is that either Apple replaced a product with no explanation, or the Apple owner concerned just lived with the "defect"?

Just asking the question here...again, not having a bash (I love my iPod Touch)]]>Jul 30th 2008 6:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/are-iphone-3gs-cracking/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/are-iphone-3gs-cracking/
Fnar....]]>Jul 30th 2008 7:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/are-iphone-3gs-cracking/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/are-iphone-3gs-cracking/
Now there's no recessed headphone jack and now there are cracks.]]>Jul 30th 2008 10:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/are-iphone-3gs-cracking/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/are-iphone-3gs-cracking/
Or maybe its because the case of the iPhone 3G is plastic and not metal.]]>Jul 30th 2008 10:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/are-iphone-3gs-cracking/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/are-iphone-3gs-cracking/
Please, for god's sake, can all the anti-Apple trolls remember this article next time you're about to post something about how Engadget or the public at large or whomever has been brainwashed by Cupertino? It would go a long ways towards cutting down on the obnoxious comments, if you had a memory that lasted a week or more.]]>Jul 30th 2008 11:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/are-iphone-3gs-cracking/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/are-iphone-3gs-cracking/
Maybe you're right.

Maybe its both.]]>Jul 30th 2008 11:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/are-iphone-3gs-cracking/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/are-iphone-3gs-cracking/
Careful there. Actually, read this sentence you just wrote. You just invented a total straw man argument so that you have something to complain about. I've never seen an Apple fanboy say what you said, that "everything that is shipped from Cupertino is absolutely perfect, without flaws, almost God-like, and everything else is completely useless crap. "

Methinks it is your projections on Apple users that cause you to lash out.]]>Jul 30th 2008 11:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/are-iphone-3gs-cracking/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/are-iphone-3gs-cracking/
So you then will agree that everything that is shipped from Cupertino is potentially imperfect, flawed, almost demonic, and like everything else is completely useless crap.]]>Jul 30th 2008 8:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/are-iphone-3gs-cracking/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/are-iphone-3gs-cracking/Don't believe me? Read any quality newspaper...]]>Jul 30th 2008 3:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/are-iphone-3gs-cracking/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/are-iphone-3gs-cracking/Jul 30th 2008 4:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/are-iphone-3gs-cracking/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/are-iphone-3gs-cracking/Jul 30th 2008 4:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/are-iphone-3gs-cracking/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/are-iphone-3gs-cracking/
Actually that's called a greengrocers' apostrophe, and it's still incorrect. ]]>Jul 30th 2008 4:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/are-iphone-3gs-cracking/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/are-iphone-3gs-cracking/
I would love too.]]>Jul 30th 2008 4:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/are-iphone-3gs-cracking/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/are-iphone-3gs-cracking/
Uppercase plurals should only have an apostrophe if one is *necessary* to avoid misreading, eg:
- A's are the top grade
- Apple IIG's were great computers (to differentitate the Apple IIG from the Apple IIGS)
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