Just when one would think that the goofiness around “Bendgate” was over along comes a pair of teenagers with a video of them running rampant through an Apple Store trying to bend the display models of the iPhone 6 – and then bragging about it.
The teens, a pair named Cudy and Danny from somewhere in England, start the video by explaining exactly what they did and why they did it. They tried to bend iPhones to prove that they could be bent, because an employee at the Apple store told them that Bendgate was an “online rumor”.
These teens clearly miss the point – many modern smartphones can be bent if one tries hard enough. This writer had an iPhone 3Gs that didn’t end up well after an afternoon in camping chair, but he doesn't blame Apple, he blames the beer he was drinking in the hot, hot sun that day. Nobody -- especially Apple -- has claimed that the new iPhones are completely unbendable or indestructible.
The worst part is that after admitting to the crime – and make no mistake, what these kids did is a crime – they tried to blame Apple. "I don't even care to be honest,” one of the kids says, “because it's Apple's fault."
Clearly that is an absurd notion; destroying a device through non-typical use is not proof of some fault in it. That would be like one taking a test drive at a Ferarri dealership and then crashing the car into a tree -- it’s not Ferarri’s fault that the driver is an idiot.
Here's the roughly five-minute video in its entirety:
To their credit, Cudy, the apparent leader of the two, has just posted a response video (or audio message, really) in which he claims that he and his pal take full responsibility for being meatheads and claims that if asked by Apple that they would gladly pay the purchase price of the phone. Cudy also wants viewers to know that unlike what some other outlets are reporting, they didn't break multiple iPhones on their crime spree, but just one. We should be glad that he cleared that up.
Be warned, Cudy uses some not-safe-for-work language in his apology:
Apple has so far been quiet about the acts in the video and a spokesperson for the company was not immediately available to comment, so we don’t know if Apple has anything planned for the dopey duo. We’d be surprised, though, if this kind of activity isn’t on Apple’s metaphorical radar right now. These two likely aren’t the only people checking out the new iPhone’s bending abilities in its retail stores, but it should be noted that people who break things that don’t belong to them don’t prove anything except that they are something of an idiot.
