Some people claim that their iPhones are starting to show cracks:
Critically, the owners all claim not to have abused their phones, only subjected them to normal use.
Hm, I call bullshit.
Why? Years and years of working with electronic devices. People bring them in with all sorts of abuse – dents, broken LCD screens, watermarks inside. And ninety percent of them didn’t do anything other than “normal use”. You have to demonstrate the sort of impact that would cause dents, try to convince them that LCD screens do not spontaneously break without external aid and show the fungus growing from the sugary-coffee mixture that they spilled into the speaker grille of the laptop.
Anyway – define ‘normal use’?
I read that and studied my hard. I agree with you plastic doesn’t tend to break on it’s own. I remember a few years back being asked to replace a keyboard for a friend. It smelt of coffee, had brown stains, was sticky but “it just stopped working after 3 months” and they never split coffee on it !!!
Having said that, with the mess of O2 upgrade system, the mess of mobile me I do have a bad taste with the whole experience.
Outside of the O2 web site debacle, I’ve had a great time with O2/Apple/iPhone. MobileMe is working fine and the ‘long pause’ problem I had with the iPhone hasn’t bitten me in a while.
I lost my all my contact details on mine today. The names were there but no email or numbers. Sorted now. I really think they tried to do far too much at once.
5 years in Telecoms running Mobile phone stores and I always thought someone must have ran round damaging peoples phones whilst they were asleep as 9 times out of 10 ‘they just woke up and it was like that!’