Opinion: iPhone 6 Plus bendgate: why is it driving people bananas?

Opinion: iPhone 6 Plus bendgate: why is it driving people bananas?   Four years after antennagate, we have a new Apple scandal on our hands: bendgate, or perhaps even bananagate. It seems that if you so much as look at an iPhone 6 Plus in the wrong way it bends into something that even Bananaman might balk at using.You know it's a scandal when the Daily Mail picks up on it. "Thinner design and the use of aluminium metal causes the deform", it says, so it must be true.Leaving aside the obvious point that what "causes the deform" is an external force acting on the metal, not the metal itself, is there a problem here?There are two answers to that. Yes, there is. Read more >