I Visited Apple’s Secret iPhone Testing Labs!

Feel like they got you to say exact­ly what they want­ed. While there is some con­nec­tion between repair abil­i­ty and dura­bil­i­ty i believe they are far less con­nect­ed then they led you to believe. And they active­ly go out of there way to make it harder

Just give it to jer­ry rig.

I’m more sur­prised you still use twitter.

I remem­ber when they showed this stuff dur­ing Anten­na­gate, specif­i­cal­ly how they test sig­nals… except it nev­er seemed to just hand it to, say, the engi­neer­ing office and mark where their hands went. And you basi­cal­ly nailed that exact same sit­u­a­tion for the drop test: 100 peo­ple drop a phone, 5 of them crack on impact. The oth­er 95 breath a sigh of relief. Except those 5 now com­plain, get frus­trat­ed, or just go to some repair shop to get it replaced.

Now you have to ask a grand ques­tion “with a repeat­able robot, could they not drop a weight­ed mock­up 360 degrees in each access to 0.1 degree accu­ra­cy and find the most com­mon angles that break, and after doing that one expen­sive test analy­sis, be able to update the design so the cost of an extra dri­ve to a store or deliv­ery vehi­cle pick­up + addi­tion­al stock and man­u­fac­tur­ing and ship­ping it + addi­tion­al employ­ee train­ing and time they spend repair­ing a bro­ken screen… and all that before the human fac­tor of opin­ion that the phone is frag­ile. All of which scales lin­ear­ly vs. the one extreme drop test. Does it real­ly come out bet­ter for the envi­ron­ment (as they’ve already men­tioned this) and cost of every­thing as opposed to… just let­ting some­one replace it eas­i­ly?” It’s a legit ques­tion. You can design for every sin­gle sce­nario and try to fix every sin­gle ele­ment, or as was stat­ed, make the most durable phone. Or you can go “we hit our peak, it does­n’t bal­ance against repairabil­i­ty, let’s tone it back a small amount where it’s per­fect for those 95 peo­ple, and for the 5 that it broke, it’s easy for them to fix that reduces all the oth­er factors.

I like how MKBHD nev­er raised any hard-hit­ting ques­tions to John Ter­nus, for exam­ple, how does soft­ware lock­ing the phone’s screen make it more durable or “envi­ron­men­tal­ly friend­ly.” I know John will fol­low script­ed answers but see­ing MKBHD doing the same is dis­heart­en­ing to watch.

Some phones will fail/get dam­aged in real world sce­nar­ios, mak­ing parts acces­si­ble to customers/repair cen­tres are always good..!! Just like auto­mo­biles, cars, etc, smartphone/laptops can be repaired/fixed with avail­abil­i­ty of spares

Jut put it in a lake

Yet they still don’t cov­er water dam­age under war­ran­ty lol. Already destroyed 2 iPhones just by swim­ming with them 😅

5:03 Apple Using Windows

4:58 Apple be using win­dows on iMAC is some­thing to look into ;p

i have both iphone 13 pro + 15 pro max, cur­rent­ly. dai­ly dri­vers. dropped a mil­lions times, each. all sur­faces includ­ed. many times from my pock­et to asphalt get­ting in my truck. nev­er had a case on either. the ip13 is MUCH worse despite being newer(for me). i will say that ip dura­bil­i­ty has been steadi­ly improv­ing. ive dropped the ip 15 pm at least 4x more than the ip 13 p. still… the ip 15 pm is in much bet­ter condition

Soft­ware locked, hard to buy parts with­out pay­ing a ton, yea it ain’t eas­i­ly repairable and it’s not cuz durability

From the iPhone 8 Plus, 11 Pro Mas, 13 Pro Max and now 15 Pro Max I’ve had real­ly good expe­ri­ence with my units dura­bil­i­ty and I’m pret­ty hap­py with the resell value.

Man, does the repairabil­i­ty-dura­bil­i­ty slid­er feel like some apple-pro­pa­gan­da. While you would­n’t active­ly be able to call them out right there and then ‚as there are con­se­quences (look­ing at LTT not receiv­ing apple prod­ucts before­hand), active­ly pro­mot­ing things like parts pair­ing and restrict­ing third-par­ty replace­ments and pro­pri­etary screws and what­not is not a good outlook.

Test­ing ! ! ! Fun­ny
My iPhone 12 fall from 2 feet in to a small water body then depth sen­sor gone and Face ID stopped work­ing.
Anoth­er time it fall from 5–6 feet and back glass broken. 💁

At this point these cor­po­ra­tions are throw­ing “good for the envi­ron­ment” around like it’s noth­ing to jus­ti­fy their mon­ey mak­ing strate­gies that ulti­mate­ly weigh on the cus­tomers. I cringe every time I hear it

If what he said was true they would­n’t make glass backs to their phones. Hav­ing glass on the back makes it 10x hard­er to repair and 10x more like­ly to break

You know they set the drop test sta­tion up just for this man’s vis­it! Drop the damn thing on your sofa and the screen explodes 😂

sooo… who notices sam­sungs phone back cov­er just sud­den­ly unglues itself?😑

Log­ic fan?! 😮

Wrong. Not every phone will fall into a lake. But every phone bat­tery will die and need replacing.

It looks like Apple have attract atten­tion up to your last videos against them. I dont like iPhone because there chois­es with bet­ter price and hardware.

Dura­bil­i­ty is absolute­ly not linked to repara­bil­i­ty. Do not sup­port this narrative

Kin­da sounds like cor­po bul­shit to me. Sam­sung has man­aged to make their phones as durable if not more than the Iphones and they still make them pos­si­ble to repair at small­er shops.

They should upcom­ing mod­el with tungten