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To: HerbVic who wrote (175106)	9/25/2014 11:53:56 AM
From: i-node	3 Recommendations Recommended By HerbVic JakeStraw Ryan Bartholomew Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 213172

>> My take on bendgate is, that's what happens when management puts designer decisions ahead of engineering decisions. Thinner, sleeker, smoother is conflicted with more robust and grippy. Someone has to compromise, and when engineering has to bend… well, you see what happens. It is astonishing, almost embarrassing, that they don't have sufficiently stringent testing to have caught this problem.

To: HerbVic who wrote (175106)	9/25/2014 6:51:14 PM
From: Doren	1 Recommendation Recommended By HerbVic Respond to of 213172

> My take on bendgate is, that's what happens when management puts designer decisions ahead of engineering decisions. I tend to agree. On the other hand there are designers who like thing to "look good" and designers who are into usabilty. Certainly this blunder was due to the former. As to a fix. Not a chance. All the dies and machines are set up. Theres not a cubic mm to spare inside those phones. Moonray commented: > I am sure though, we all wouldn't mind it the iPhone 6+ were bumped up to 8 MM and the space used for getting us better battery life. Duh! Maybe not exactly 8MM but the point is... battery power is much more important than thinness to all except a dweeby designer who is obsessed with Bauhaus "coolness" which isn't coolness at all. Lennie Tristano was cool... dweeby designers obsessed with Bauhaus are just dweebs. Apple can and is out of touch with its customers in many cases. They live in a world of their own... they need to get out. I'm not sure the space ship headquarters is going to help on that. (I was lucky enough to see Lee Konitz one night live. Somebody need to tell those blabbermouth people to shut up.)

To: HerbVic who wrote (175106)	9/25/2014 10:02:43 PM
From: Stock Puppy	1 Recommendation Recommended By Ryan Bartholomew Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213172

My take on bendgate is, that's what happens when management puts designer decisions ahead of engineering decisions. Thinner, sleeker, smoother is conflicted with more robust and grippy. Someone has to compromise, and when engineering has to bend… well, you see what happens. So… You're trying to say this is all because the engineering department at Apple wanted to show off how flexible it is? Okay, okay, I'll go stand in the corner now :-) Obviously an iPhone 6+ user...