I Visited Apple's Secret iPhone Testing Labs!



Where 10,000 iPhones are built and destroyed before the first one ships

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38 thoughts on “I Visited Apple's Secret iPhone Testing Labs!”

  1. Regardless of the prices and other stuff. We should appreciate how companies they put their efforts to build a master pice for the consumer.

    Now a days phone is your every thing i mean literally everything

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  2. Maybe it is not what defines the IP – – rating but isn’t using distilled water misleading? Since it doesn’t conduct electricity and doesn’t corrode the components, doesn’t make it pretty simpler to pass all the tests and get a high rating?

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  3. I feel like that scale of repairibility – durability scale is not at all correct. it is just apple marketing. Using different types of screws, and some of that bs is definitely not part of durability – it's a choice.

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  4. this will get burried but the IPX rating is only for NEW not the life of the device.
    expect the water intrusion to go down over time as the hydrophobic coatings wear off. The more you clean you phone the faster it wears off

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  5. Everything comes from customer/design requirements which includes warranty requirements. They engineer/test/model statistically to prove the product will meet the warranty period or assumed life of the product. If they didn’t their warranty cost would be so high it could possibly sink the company ie “risky”. If they developed a product that didn’t ever break it would cost $5,000 per phone. There is a trade off.

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  6. Iphones can be durable and repairable if they wanted, no need for 6 different screw head types or ribbon cables that are software locked, glass backs that break on one drop with an Otter case like my iphone 12 pro.

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  7. They have a water rating but one of the first questions apple asks when you call tech support is “has the phone been in water” lol obviously they don’t trust the rating that much lol

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  8. 5:20 That might not seem like as common a test, but I've killed the camera on a phone by having it on a motorcycle mount that didn't have adequate vibration damping, so that's a thing.

    Also my opinion on the 'sliding scale of repairability/durability' is that it's a bit more complicated. Some things arguably are a scale, like water resistance vs ease of opening. Screws don't seal that great, and adhesives do but are harder to remove, so fair enough. Some things have changed because they make durability way easier; which is why I'm not sure I'm a huge fan of the proposed mandate that all phones have tool-less replaceable batteries. Having that as an option on some devices is awesome, but it does make waterproofing much more difficult.
    The biggest issue I have with repairability is when companies make decisions that significantly increase the difficulty of repairing a device without really improving the durability or cost. (Cost is also complicated, there's a reason Framework laptops are more expensive, but at a certain scale it becomes more anticonsumer than actually necessary) Things like permanently gluing batteries, using excessive (well past what is necessary for waterproofing) amounts of adhesive, or numerous clips that aren't really designed to ever be opened where other options are viable. Locking hardware to devices arbitrarily, or designing new fasteners simply to make it more difficult to open, those types of behaviors are much harder to justify. (Also side note on that hardware locking one, honestly I don't even have a problem with serializing components; honestly if I'm buying a used phone, I'd love to be able to check if the screen and battery are original, and if not, who made them. But preventing the device from functioning properly simply because it wasn't repaired by Apple is not ok.)

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