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and it is the talk of the tech world bendgate almost a week after the debut of its new iPhones Apple continues to face complaints about the unintended flexibility of its plus-sized unit we're going to see more of them come out over the next few hours as this story bendgate picks up and gets more viral than Apple aren't going to take responsibility for this they'll probably give out some very sensible advice but then here comes the end game so it started out with a few users complaining that their new iphone six-plus had bent in their pocket from there some dude on the internet with a backwards hat who I know and can personally call a friend decided to test that on video the media ate it up and didn't hesitate for a second to make a story out of it and as more and more did the video went viral but then came the controversy the unbox therapy video was fake the iPhone six-plus didn't really bend that way and once again media jumped on it enter the Ben gates conspiracy with normally use a band in iphone is extremely rare and through our first six days of sale a total of nine customers have contacted Apple with a bent iPhone 6 plus as with any Apple product if you have any questions please contact Apple from there Consumer Reports came out with the official bend test and determine that the iPhone 6 and 6 plus we're not as bendy as believed once again media jumped on it and dismissed any potential iPhone 6 plus bending problems and the story right not so much there's a few things at Apple and the media will never tell you now let me start off by saying that I don't think the iPhone 6 plus bending problem is as big as some have made it out to be it's not going to automatically bend out of the box in your pocket but I also don't think it should be dismissed and taken as lightly as some others have if you watch my buddy Marquez video he explains that phones bending are not new and he's right older iPhones have bent Android phones have bent hell even blackberry and windows phones have bent but bending isn't specifically the problem if you've watched any iPhone 6 plus bend test video they all have one thing in common they bend in the exact same spot and expose a structural weak point in the phone now while media jumped on the conspiracy train and suggested that loose video was fake or hoax they completely ignored other videos and pictures that yielded these same results when the consumer report video came out and dismissed a problem everyone was all lathers to white yes science but there was a flaw in their testing they applied pressure directly in the middle of the phone's completely ignoring the weak point of these six plus if they wanted to be super scientific they should have used three sets of phones and tested at three different points this actually hit reddit recently and user Alerus for noted that the iphone six-plus bending is caused by the reinforcement or lack thereof inside the phone behind the volume buttons if you check out iFixit stare down the metal reinforcement ends with the screw leaving the body prone to stress it's not about how much force must be applied and if a pocket will do the trick or not it's just that under a particular type of flexing the phone is prone to bend mainly because a metal insert meant to reinforce instead spins that and access too close to the critical point if they were further apart allowing better support to counter the flexing and not spinning it would make it more resistant wired who is one of the biggest web sites on the planet experienced bending in their iPhone six-plus review unit after just four days now again wired is huge and why this would be dismissed is beyond me John Gruber of daring fireball said this I cannot believe that this bent iphone six-plus thing is becoming a thing watch this jackasses video and then he conveniently forgets to link should we not be amazed that his phone didn't snap in half under this pressure that the glass did fracture under pressure like this bending but not breaking seems like an extraordinary feature this bothers me for a couple reasons lately it seems that youtubers have got this wrap or image that they're not as official or as legitimate as certain media or journalistic sites Cult of Mac recently published an article that youtubers are striking it rich off iPhone 6 videos but this is where you guys need to pay attention I've seen some pretty bitter complaints that these YouTube videos are done solely for views the reality is that every single website that embedded and posted loose video on their website isn't doing it for charity they're gaining page views and yep those are ads so they are benefiting monetarily as well so the whole holier-than-thou attitude kind of rubs me the wrong way now if you haven't heard of 9 to 5 Mac you should check them out mark Germann wrote an incredible piece on how Apple's PR works the sad reality is that most of these media websites are going to turn the other way why being able to get your iPhone reviewed days before the public even gets their hands on it equals more pageviews and of course that equals money and the crazy thing is times are changing no longer is everyone or you guys for that matter waiting on these pre-release embargo reviews you're actually turning towards guess what YouTube videos all of the highest viewed iPhone 6 videos are from youtubers even without that Apple head start so if there's one thing that you take away from this video it's not that all media is corrupt and evil but it's more so don't believe the first thing that you hear or read question everything we have so much information at our fingertips so if Apple comes out and says only nine users complain don't just immediately buy into that and at the same time if you hear that the iPhone six-plus Benz don't automatically assume that it's the worst phone on the planet that it's unusable and again it's going to bend right out of the box in your pocket do a little investigating I think eventually we'll see more and more of these issues pop up but again only time will tell and we'll have to see now again if you're still interested in looking into buying an iPhone 6 plus again it's not the end of the world if you are concerned I actually just tested it out using a case and it does help it quite a bit so if you guys want to check out that video it is linked right here and also linked down in the description if you found this video helpful educational or just beneficial in any way feel free to hit that like button it is much appreciated I do have both my iPhone 6 and 6 plus reviews on the way so if you're interested in checking those out definitely feel free to subscribe so you don't miss those aside from that this is Jonathan with TLD and I'll see you guys later