EXTREME Tech ’s ( capitalization the Macalope ’s because EXTREME ! ) Sebastian Anthony get the utmost - ly good dubiousness ( see what the Macalope did there?):“Scuffgate : Will Apple have to recall the iPhone 5 ? ”
Now , this may seem absurd . Ridiculous . Gut - bustingly laughable . But retrieve this is EXTREME Tech ! And in EXTREME Tech , anything can happen !
To the EXTREME !
If one C of consumer reports are to be believed , it seems that 30 to 40 % of all iPhone 5s are arriving with scuff marks — legal injury to the sides and back of the case that roam from venial abrasions , all the agency through to nicks where the coat of the telephone set has been completely removed , exposing the aluminium chassis beneath .
If you ’re wondering how “ one C of consumer ” can implicate 30 to 40 per centum of more than two million iPhones sold — in other words if you sympathise canonic math — pay heed on . We ’ll get there .
Scuffgate does n’t seem to be a place issue : There have been circumstances of reports from the west coast of the US , of course , but users in Europe and Hong Kong are also report scuffed phones .
Holy crap ! It ’s likeOutbreak ! Only with scuffs on headphone instead of a pernicious disease !
So , you hump , like 100 times worse !
Now , Anthony does know that all the phones middling much come from the same place , right ? That iPhones are not created at local , sustainable and constitutive mill ? Because the Macalope really does n’t get how he think that special data point is relevant .
The harm is n’t being triggered by overzealous Apple fans , desperate to get their desexualise tentacle on the young iPhone , either …
Apple fan have been called a lot of things before but never “ obsessive - determined calamari . ” Well , possibly the Macalope has n’t readeverythingby John Dvorak .
The scuffed iPhones are seemingly already damaged when they arrive , before anyone has had a chance to finger them sharply .
Personally , the first thing the Macalope does with a novel iPhone is put the entire affair in his oral fissure . That ’s not uncanny . Well , not any weirder than “ finger it aggressively . ”
But if you have an iPhone that ’s scratch out of the boxful and that ’s a problem for you , what should you do ?
If you have a damaged iPhone 5 , Apple Stores will apparently replace it .
Ooookay , so we ’re left with the repulsion that the iPhone 5 will scratch over clip like … well , the original iPhone and moderately much any other phone made by anyone other than Apple . Of of course , those companies do n’t get “ -gates ” because no one expects their speech sound to be “ tidy sum in box ” experimental condition after they ’ve been out of the box for years .
When people complained about the scratches on the iPod nano , at least they were complaining about the scratch on thefrontthat made the screen door harder to view . Scratches on the back ? Please attempt to get over yourselves .
But what about that “ statistic ” that 30 to 40 pct are arriving pre - scratched ?
Over onMacRumors , 36 % of 1,300 polled users reported that their phone was scuffed out of the box , and a further 10 % had unknowingly damaged it within a few hours .
Yes , the MacRumors “ opinion poll ” that Anthony name is a web canvass . So , you know , it ’s statistically valid with a variance of plus or minus , oh , infinity .
Really , any way you take care at it , your iPhone 5 will likely terminate up depend like a shipwreck after a few weeks of use .
Awreck . A shuffling . A regular dilapidation of a phone .
It ’s perfectly potential the Macalope is babying his iPhone 5 , but after more than a week of use with no case , it ’s still in mint consideration . Let us agree to say your gasoline mileage may vary .
If the MacRumors poll really is representative , though …
Well , hey , it could be in that “ break clock ” kind of way .
… if a full 45 % of shipped iPhones are damage , or easy to damage — then the trouble is plain indigenous to the iPhone 5′s intention and anodized human body , and perhaps a full production recollection is in order .
For scratches . On the back of the phone . In some cases . Depending on use . Sure .
And that ’s when the noncitizen resolve that Earthlings were only too overprivileged and frustrate and rather than risk having them distribute their contemptible whining throughout the galaxy they nuked the planet to a charred cinder and everyone survive happily ever after . The close .
