'Hairgate': iPhone hit by new social media storm

ASIAONE ^ | Wednesday, Oct 08, 2014 | Reuters

[WhiskeyX]

Fresh from the online uproar over whether the shiny new iPhone 6 bends when carried around in pockets, Apple has been hit by a new complaint - that the handset traps users' hair or beards when they make calls. It is difficult to gauge whether there is any real issue, but Twitter users have made #hairgate a rising social media trend, leading major news outlets to pounce on the story.

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[Red Badger]

Solution: Get a haircut and a shave!...................

[Hostage]

Sans Jobs, The Apple his Rotting.

[WhiskeyX]

isn’t that what the iPhone 6 is for in those photographs?

[AlaskaErik]

Probably happened to one person. The rest just want to be a victim.

[ChildOfThe60s]

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Ebola, ISIS, now the new iPhone snagging the occasional hair - the world is spinning out of control.

[C210N]

Solution: Get a haircut and a shave!...................

Why, when an iHaircut and an iShave will do just as well?

[I can't wait to try out the just released iSis app]

[matt04]

Right after the Apple Maps disaster I knew they would they would continue to have problems. Until they get a new leader like Jobs They will continue to have problems.

[Vendome]

It traps a beard?

That’s a feature.

Married Homos are gonna want this thing...

[illiac]

There are much more important things to worry about!!!

[Billthedrill]

I demand a settlement. My iPhone - if I had an iPhone - is a hazard to pulling out my beard - if I had a beard. They owe me money.

[WhiskeyX]

Don’t forget the cat and the dog....oh the inhumanity!

[muir_redwoods]

Every time I see some mouth-breathing, dull-normal camping in line to be one of the first to buy some new toy I think,

“Don’t they know that final UAT is done in the customer location?”

[IYAS9YAS]

Meh, my iPhone 4s pulls out facial hairs on occasion, when they get caught in the cover. My Droid did the same thing, as did the two flip phones I had before them. Can't think of anything more trivial than this to complain about.

I mean, where's my money?

[Swordmaker]

Oh, good grief! Someone has complained on Twitter that his or her iPhone 6 is pulling hair out by catching their hair when holding the iPhone up to their ears in the joint between the screen and the frame. I cannot see an appreciable gap with a 10x Jeweler's loupe. . . certainly not more than any previous iPhones. I call this absurd FUD! This strikes me as a response from Samsung's marketing department to counter "Gapgate" where people are complaining about the gap between the screen and frame wide enough to hold business cards on the new Samsung Galaxy Note 4 phone that collects dirt, oil, and crud. — PING!

Hair Pulling Apple iPhone 6 FUD Ping!

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[Swordmaker]

Oh, good grief! Someone has complained on Twitter that his or her iPhone 6 is pulling hair out by catching their hair when holding the iPhone up to their ears in the joint between the screen and the frame. I cannot see an appreciable gap with a 10x Jeweler's loupe. . . certainly not more than any previous iPhones. I call this absurd FUD! This strikes me as a response from Samsung's marketing department to counter "Gapgate" where people are complaining about the gap between the screen and frame wide enough to hold business cards on the new Samsung Galaxy Note 4 phone that collects dirt, oil, and crud. — PING!

Hair Pulling Apple iPhone 6 FUD Ping!

If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.

[Leroy S. Mort]

This strikes me as a response from Samsung's marketing department to counter "Gapgate"...

Bush's Samsung's fault?

[House Atreides]

Wow, the Apple competitors are REALLY getting desperate. Their FUD (i.e., PR campaigns to spread Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt) no longer engenders much beyond mild amusement. What will they do now?

[catnipman]

“Sans Jobs, The Apple his Rotting.”

Indeed. The minute I finished Walter Isaacson’s “Jobs” biography it was evident to me that Apple was doomed to soon become just another company like GM, Microsoft, HP, etc.