iPhone 3G cracking under the strain?

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, … Continue reading “iPhone 3G cracking under the strain?”

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’?