You can talk about stress testing and Apple’s potential liability until you’re blue in the face, but sometimes you need to just speak about overblown subjects like the Bendgate controversy using a shred of common sense.
Happily taking up that baton is T-Mobile CEO John Legere, who responded to questions about Apple’s allegedly bendable iPhone 6 Plus at this year’s GeekWire Summit 2014 with a distinctly non-corporate-sounding statement. Simply put: try bending that brand new super computer handset you’ve paid good money for and you’re a f****ing idiot.
Well, someone had to say it.
During his on-stage interview, Legere describes the whole story as “such horse****.” Referring to the original iPhone 6 Plus bending video, he continues that, “If you could have seen his face he probably would have been purple. The veins were coming out of his fingers and the thing moves a little bit. Are you ****ing me?”
Speaking more broadly about the controversy Legere marvels at the fact that people would sit on what essentially amounts to a hand-sized super computer.
“What the **** are you putting it in your pants and sitting on it for?” he asks.
“You know what, those 9 people that sat on their phones, first of all they need jeans that fit them a little better, cause if your jeans are cutting your phone. What idiot [tries to bend the iPhone 6]? Give me a break. Take your laptop, you know, do handstands on it, throw it against the wall. That’s bull****. This thing doesn’t f***ing bend.”
He then notes that whatever truth there may or may not be to Bendgate, it’s not slowing down demand for the iPhone 6 any. “The demand for these devices in the last few weeks is unbelievable,” Legere says.
The full interview can be seen below. The relevant comments start at the 20:10 mark.
If only all CEOs were this refreshingly honest!
Source: CNet
Via: iClarified
Luke Dormehl is a U.K.-based journalist and author, with a background working in documentary film for Channel 4 and the BBC. He is the author of The Apple Revolution and The Formula: How Algorithms Solve All Our Problems … and Create More, both published by Penguin/Random House. His tech writing has also appeared in Wired, Fast Company, Techmeme and other publications.
44 responses to “T-Mobile CEO dismisses Bendgate as total “horse****””
Thank you John for saying what Tim Cook couldn’t or wouldn’t, but the rest of us sane, non-Samsung fanboi’s, were thinking.
It’s not Samsung fanboi’s it’s just stupid people. I’m a Samsung user, and I’ve said it’s bullshit since the beginning.
Of course you could look at it as a CEO blaming the customer in order to make a design flaw a non-issue. What does he have to gain? Well trying to minimize the overhead of responding to new phone requests that takes up both time and product for no added profit. It would not be the first time for such a move. If people remain customers while being belittled – have it ‘bois…
Or you could look at it for what it is, a man telling you not to be an idiot.
You know the people beyond the 9 are bending it on purpose now, right? It’s just like shatter gate, dropping their iPhones on purpose to prove it shatters. To prove Apple may have gone cheaper in their designs.
Its only an issue because the non fan people won’t stop dragging the joke. Because LG and Samsung won’t stop dragging the joke either.
everything can break therefore everything has a design flaw… yeah?
“T-Mobile CEO dismisses Bendgate as total “horse****”
As well they should have. Yep, Apple-haters, kids, pranksters, uninformed readers and, mostly, bloggers and online news media had to •really• work overtime to find something so ridiculous to complain about on this round of iPhones. Fortunately, most people with a modicum of intelligence—most—knew better, and ignored the whole, silly flap.
That guy is too cool, if I were John I would have said much more…
My solution: don’t bend it. Don’t take it scuba diving. Don’t use it as a hammer. Don’t use it as a frisbee. Pretty simple actually. Bunch of numbnuts …
Of course Bendgate is blown way out of proportion. Its device worth upwards of $1000, don’t sit on it stupid.
But Apple are “f***ing idiots” for putting thinness over the features people want. NO ONE was asking for a thinner phone! They want more battery and a camera that doesn’t protrude.
No one ever talks about Apple designs worst offense, the phones are to damn smooth, its like a bar of soap that thing! Practically jumps out of your hand its so slick! SLICKGATE!
So, he sat on the phone on a soft sofa and concluded that it doesn’t bend. Sorry for not being assured by his performance.
It´s not the question if it will bend because it will with enough force. The question is how stupid people are to put it in the backpocket and sit on it.
Imagine thinking twice where the phone is every time you sit. Sitting on the phone is not the only instance in which the phone might bend. Imagine what else you cannot do with that phone.
It’s a phone not a prying iron. Use it at it was intended.
So, let’s use it at it was intended by
Not putting it in your back pocket because you might sit and bend it .
Not putting it in your front pocket because you might walk/run/dance and bend it.
Not putting it in your bag/backpack because something inside might bend it.
What’s next?
And they call it A MOBILE device. LOL
Better just leave in unboxed until the next iteration.
Keep your argument realistic and don’t make shit up.
It will NOT bend in your front pocket,it will NO bend in your backpack. Its stupid ignorant people like you that put telephone in your back pocket and get surprised it bend. Haha i will never stop to be amazed how stupid people are and you will think that people evolve but some devolve.
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1785905
You should know better.
and before the Cult approves my comment:
http://forums(DOT)macrumors(DOT)com/showthread(DOT)php?t=1785905
So? Just stupid people.
Can you expect more from people waiting in line for few days to get one of the bendApple devices?
No? Me neither.
I wonder what you are doing here when you clearly don’t belong here troll.
You are so defensive it’s borderline impressive. I do hope, for the sake of a life lesson, that your iPhone bends during normal use and you are forced to pay for a replacement.
“AppleCare’s official stance is that any bend, however slight, is
considered accidental damage and is not covered by the manufacturer’s
limited warranty.”
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The only people that keep perpetuating bend gate are the Samdung fanboys and moronic bloggers.
Ah yes, another “blame the customer” tool. How dare customers expect a phone to survive being pocketed and sat on! What’s BS is that iSheep continue to buy the “you’re using it wrong” condescending drivel each time Apple releases a piece of crap product.
Another butt hurt trolling!
BTW smart people use iPhone
Maybe you should look at the benchmarks before calling it crap.
“iSheep”. The juvenile name a fandroid troll uses when they can’t use their intelligence to argue a valid point. Typical of those with very low IQ’s.
And yet you call him a “fandroid.”
Hardly earth shattering. He’s a fan of android. Do you find it offensive do you?
You missed my point. You say “iSheep” is a “juvenile name a fandroid troll uses” and go on about how “they can’t use their intelligence to argue a valid point” … and yet you do the same exact thing. Do you have the same “low IQ” you accuse them of?
BTW, genius. I’m a big Apple fan and don’t use Android, so I’m not offended by the word “fandroid. You on the other hand …
No, you completely missed my point, right from the start. I gather you don’t understand irony.
So you have no problem with people calling Apple users “sheep” while the word fan-droid, gets your dander up? Perhaps if you wish to attack people for name calling, go after the instigators first? Or are you just another Apple basher trolling Apple forums for the kicks? I think you have a problem if you can’t see the hypocrisy in your attack. Feel free not to read my comments if you are so offended by them sir. I do come here to read intelligent discussion, not the mindless rants of trolls spewing bile and calling people sheep. I prefer my blogs to be troll free, but alas here you are. Sigh!!
You rant and name call, and yet you claim to be here for intelligent discussion?? Getting so indignant and angrily ranting is neither intelligent nor a discussion.
You appear to be much too sensitive and easily insulted to participate in intelligent discussion, but alas, that seems to be the norm for many on the internet.
Annnny-way … this is getting boring. I’m outa here and will not read your reply.
Name calling. Oh pleeeease!!!!! How is Fan- Droid (a fan of android) even close to calling someone a sheep. I think you protesteth too much. Take your agenda elsewhere, and as for bering sensitive, I think you should have a big look in the mirror champ. I still haven’t seen your indignation of the guy who came here calling people sheep. Feel free to make a protest on his comments too, but somehow I think you believe calling someone a sheep fits your agenda. Now go away, intolerant troll.
if you look hard enough you can find problems in any brand phone including Samsung and android phones but people still buy them…………….
Bet you said the same thing about so-called antenna-gate. Remember that?
The bigger question here is… How in the heck is that guy the CEO of anything? LOL!
He took T-Mobile from failing to the fastest growing US carrier. Listen to the whole interview, it’s quite entertaining.
You wouldn’t understand.
I just switched to T-Mobile. I love this guy. He’s the most entertaining CEO since Jobs.
The iPhone 6 is another $700 waste of money that still breaks the first time you drop it.
I’ve had 7 years of iPhones, several drops and never smashed a screen.
$700 and you can’t develop a screen that withstands one drop?
What I don’t get is how “intelligent” People think that a thin piece of aluminum would not bend if you applied enough force to it??? (And just in case anyone is wondering if you apply enough force to ANY phone it will break and, yes this even applies to android phones)
On the same note people are stupid if they think that a thin piece of GLASS (your phone screen) will not break if you drop it on a hard surface! It will, I see it every day with every phone apple, LG, Samsung, Nokia, Motorola, blackberry, etc.