brppreacher

One question: How does it work when typing on your lap? There are times when I am at conferences without tables and have to use this on my lap.

tmay said:

roger wade said:

sog35 said:

lkrupp said:

Most of these class actions are thrown out. So will this one. My magic eight-ball says so.

Exactly. The only ones winning in these are lawyers who collect a $2k retainer from a couple hundred idiots who think they have a chance for a huge settlement.

Lawyers and Ads are the bain of society.

Spoken like someone who has no idea what the purpose of class action lawsuits are -- not to put money in the pockets of "a couple hundred idiots who think they have a chance for a huge settlement", but to punish the corporation financially.

How are you able to even work a computer?

A issue of such low magnitude that few are even aware of it in the two years since the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus came on the market, and now all of the sudden, pushed by a couple of aftermarket repair guys and AI, it's now a big deal worthy of an immediate class action lawsuit?

Welcome to the internets...

I don't think the issue is one of magnitude, rather it is a matter of many experiencing the problem (see the Apple forum links from the first article with hundreds of people discussing it over the last year or so) but it not being unified under any one name by which folks would identify it and discuss it. From what I see this is a coalescing of users around a common problem, not a sudden rush of users who are trying to say they have a problem.

I have a 6+ that has been exhibiting this problem and getting progressively worse over the last few weeks. My friend who purchased one little after I did (Both were Nov./Dec. '14) is experiencing the beginning stages of the same problem. I have kept mine in a case from the beginning and out of my back pocket after seeing the bending that was occurring on the phones of those who did such. All I hope is that this suit forces Apple's hand.

People can say one should just expect it to last the warranty or buy an extended warranty, but is that what Apple sells? Apple touts the design, lasting endurance, and quality of their products as being above the competition. By so doing, they imply said products will perform well for a reasonable amount of time. Under 2 years or much less in some instances is not reasonable. Refusing to acknowledge the bending and flexing that seems to create this problem over time is what started this whole mess.

The 6+ was a first gen product, but a first gen that was sold, bought, and advertised as an iteration of a successful product. This reminds me of the iPad 3 which was not prepared to handle a retina screen. I owned it and while it managed, it certainly wasn't as advertised. In reality, both of these products were such major shifts that they really constituted something new, not iterative in the way the 4s to the 5 was.

For me (speaking only of my personal experience) this is a trend in Apple products. I had a 2010 MacBook Pro that had to be replaced after 4 logic board failures. It was replaced by a 2012 Pro that again was replaced after 3 logic board failures. I now have a late 2013 Retina Pro that has had its logic board replaced 2 times. All the failures from the 2010 through the 2013 have been in the GPU. My iPhone 4 had to be replaced due to failure. My iPad Air had to be replaced due to multiple button failures which was linked to the logic board by the geniuses. Now my 6+ is suffering with this problem and my 2013 Pro that had its logic board replaced last month is starting to exhibit some of the same symptoms it did in the months leading up to the GPU failure. I love how the Apple ecosystem works together. But it has become increasingly harder for me to use that system as the products that sustain it have failed to function. Just my 2 cents.