Bendgate twist: Teens try to bend the Apple iPhone 6 just to validate complaints

Last week, some users revealed a unique design issue in Apple’s new iPhone 6 Plus. It would bend in the pocket! Soon the web was flooded with opinions and funny remarks as people took it to social media to complain about the issue. Some, including Apple’s rivals, started mocking the new phones.

Apple’s so-called design snafu, termed as ‘Bendgate’ by the media, has become so popular that buyers have been bending the phones just to validate the rumours - even if it means damaging expensive iPhones that don’t belong to them.

A report by The Verge  reveals how two 15-year-old boys, Danny and Kylie, went to a local Apple Store just to see if the brand new iPhones would bend. They have filmed the whole episode and even showed their own faces and referred to one another by name, before posting the video on YouTube.

Apple’s products, which have known to garner attention even for the pettiest news, have made Danny and Kylie instantly popular - not in a good way. After being told by an Apple Store employee that the phone could not bend, they tried to prove him wrong. “It’s not a rumor, it’s true,” Kylie said after the extremely illegal and unscientific test, says the report.

This rogue behaviour is not limited to kids. According to this post by Business Insider , people have been bending phones in Apple Stores as casually as they would be trying out new features in a new phone. This careless behaviour is so prominent that Apple store employees don’t bother stopping customers from trying to bend the new iPhones. Many have even succeeded in bending the iPhone 6 Plus, with utter disregard for private property.