Video: Teens try to forcefully bend iPhones at Apple store
As the world tries to decipher whether or not the new iPhone 6 is bendable, two British teens have attempted to shed truth on Apple's "Bendgate" in a very criminally negligent way.
The video above shows two British teens voyaging into their local Apple store to test whether or not iPhone 6's will bend. They forcefully grip the display iPhone 6's at the store, and apply heavy force to the devices in order to make them bend. As the teens test the bending rumor, they nearly fracture the devices screen, clearly damaging the units. It is only until an Apple store employee finally confronts the teens that they stop.
Controversy first started with Apple's iPhone 6 after customers claimed that the phone was bendable after being subject to normal wear and tear. Apple addressed the bending rumor in a statement on Thursday, September 25, saying that "with normal use a bend 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."
However, the experiment performed by the two teens in the video above doesn't shed much light on whether Apple's iPhone's is in fact bendable. The early reports of iPhone 6's being bendable were after the units were subject to normal everyday circumstances, like the phone being left in a consumer's back pocket after sitting down. These teens though are intently applying strong physical force on the units hoping to make it bend, which end up damaging the phones and not addressing whether the units are bendable by normal wear and tear.
The video did receive a lot of strong feedback on YouTube. Some people showed their support to the teens for their experiment.
Others criticized the pair for damaging the Apple store's property.
Since the teens were bending iPhones still on display at the Apple store and not their own, they in turn were bending and damaging property that belonged to Apple, which is a criminal offense.
