World rocked as YouTubers prove you can eventually break an iPad
Presumably they get enough clicks out of it to pay for the devices, but once again YouTubers are destroying the new iPad Pro even though Apple's latest design turns out to make that substantially harder this time.
If you break an iPad, it breaks. You heard it here first.
"Can it survive everyday life?" says one YouTuber, JerryRigEverything, as he proceeds to put a new M4 iPad Pro through anything but everyday life.
"Hit subscribe for more videos like this because they're very expensive," says AppleTrack, going wide-eyed at the cost of his own decision to do this nonsense.
YouTubers say they're spending this money so that they and they alone -- apart from all the others -- can prove whether you need to be careful with your iPad and avoid deliberately smashing it. Because of course a YouTuber is going to put an iPad through as much durability testing with scientific rigor as Apple.
Of course, this is all to help us chose the right iPad when we need one to shove under a truck.
It's painful to see the work of thousands of people across the world being treated this way. There is an argument, of course, that Apple is making literally millions of these devices and as long as it's got your money, it won't care.
But forget Apple the company, think of the people who created this iPad. That's their work these YouTubers are so casually defacing and then completely destroying.
And then they're saying gosh, it broke. Every designer, every engineer, every one involved in that iPad is being told they aren't good enough because it's possible to break this thing. Apple fail!
JerryRigEverything does start by showing that his new iPad Pro "might have arrived with a slight bow in the housing." He uses an angle finder to show that, yes, the iPad Pro was 0.1 degrees off perfectly straight.
It just doesn't stay that way as, after cutting the back, scouring the screen and then emulating what happens when you put your back into bending the thing, it bends until it breaks.
JerryRigEverything finds "no glaring build quality issues," and he does say that the 0.1 degree issue is less than he expected. And he's very impressed at Apple's addition of an extra spine that supports the structure.
But then at the end, when he's destroyed the iPad, he says "there's no recovering from this catastrophic failure." Really. What a surprise.
"It is just stupid how strong this new iPad Pro is," says AppleTrack. Uh-huh.
"All things considered the thinnest iPad Pro should not be performing as well as it is," he continues. "A lot of people don't believe me, but as soon as I saw that new iPad Pro, I needed to know like, is it a durability risk?"
"And the answer is no, no, it is not," he says. "These new iPad Pros are going to broadly hold up even though they are ridiculously thin [and] the OLED display, especially the tandem design is crazy durable."
YouTube videos that do this are wasting expensive iPads, and there is not one single benefit to users. Yet they will keep on making these videos that prove very little other than YouTube pays, as long as people keep watching.
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Both of them took 85lb to unusable. Question will be normal everyday use for ipad pro will bend like that?
Most people put some sort of cover or protection case. Unless you use bare bone ipad pro and cause of camera bump to bend. But even that need at least 70lb pressure.
So stop seating on ipad pro.
Very true. Sam Kohl is a chump. He's also someone who destroyed his Vision Pro for the clicks. He's been hanging around his buddies Jon Prosser and Luke Miani too much
I’ve just upgraded from my 6 year old 11” iPad Pro to the latest. It’s never had been in a case. I’ve used it at home, kept it in shoulder bags, used it on the train, on London buses and who knows where else. If I gave it a good polish with a glass cloth you might think it had never been used - no screen cracks or chips and no scratches or case damage.
I reckon when you pay for something expensive then you should look after it. Makes sense to me.
JerryRigEverything even complemented how much stronger this year’s model is compared to the last one he broke in half a good deal easier. His methodology is always the same on the numerous products he tests which is nice for an apples to apples comparison for tons of tech products, including those not made by apple. It makes financial sense for him as well since his clicks pay for the product and then after he completes his cursory tear down, he will then clean up and photograph the device for his skin collaboration with dBrand.
i don’t care for the videos of people randomly destroying expensive tech for clicks, but these type are at least informative in their nature and allow a first look at the innards before iFixit finishes putting their more in depth videos together.
Apple will have gone through hundreds of iPads during testing both from a design standpoint and and end use (finished product) viewpoint.
A few internet users making their, albeit non-real world use, findings public isn't an issue and they also cover a full spectrum of manufacturers and some are actually found to be producing better products than others.
If end users really want tough devices though, they know to look for 'rugged' in the description.
the entire internet is hypocrisy.
This is not news to most people with a working brain. Do we need to see “influencers” or whoever these numpties are, throwing heavier and heavier objects at their lounge window to find out the energy required to smash it so that we can then avoid throwing items that heavy at them?
Everything will eventually break.
Question is will it stand upto normal everyday use, ?
It Broke!
Thanks, Obama!