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History of Bendgate

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PatFannin
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If you weren’t following Apple's Bendgate debacle when it happened back in 2014, then let me explain exactly how it went down. So the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus were released near the end of 2014 and generated quite a bit of hype since they had pretty radical designs that featured much larger displays than the previous iPhone 5s, coming in at 4.7 and 5.5 inches. So customers were excited to get their hands on an iPhone that finally had a screen size comparable to its competition. And after just three days of going on sale, over 10 million iPhone 6 and 6 Plus units had been sold. And while those huge sales numbers gave Apple a reason to celebrate, things took a turn for the worst when a handful of iPhone 6 Plus owners complain on social media that their new smartphone had bent during normal usage.

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