UNIVERSIDAD

POLITÉCNICA DE
DURANGO
Vanessa Ramirez

DAMIANY ROSALES
ROSALES

SOFTWARE
ENGINEERING BIS

AVOIDING A
DOOM
SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE
When the iPhone 6 was released in september 2014, it came with a particular problem, you

could bend it. Now, of course no one

would really want to bend his phone,

but the thing here is that you could still

do that accidentally by having it in your

pocket. And this was due to a specific

weak point on the inside of the chassis right beneath the volume buttons that allows it to

bend very easily with pressure added in the right place.

It appears that the iPhone 6 has a

flawed design that was being dismissed

by Apple and many of its followers. The

problem (as mentioned above) is the

obvious weak point within the chassis of

the iPhone 6 Plus. It is hard to deny.

Even display models at the Apple Store were found slightly bent by kid vandals.

“Our iPhones are designed, engineered and manufactured to be both beautiful and sturdy.

iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus feature a precision engineered unibody enclosure constructed

from machining a custom grade of 6000 series anodized aluminum, which is tempered for

extra strength. They also feature stainless steel and titanium inserts to reinforce high stress

locations and use the strongest glass in the smartphone industry. We chose these

high-quality materials and construction very carefully for their strength and durability. We

also perform rigorous tests throughout the entire development cycle including 3-point

bending, pressure point cycling, sit, torsion, and user studies. iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus

meet or exceed all of our high quality standards to endure everyday, real life use.
With normal use a bend in the iPhone is extremely rare and through our first six days of sale,

a total of nine customers have contacted Apple with a bent iPhone 6 Plus. As with any Apple

product, if you have questions please contact Apple."

- Apple statement

So what was the problem with the manufacturing? The materials? Bad assembly? Well, I

would say that the main problem here is that they didn’t test it as well as they needed to.

According to some reports of that year, it took 90 pounds of pressure to bend or deform the

device.

Keeping in mind that they were making a product that a lot of users would reach, they should

have made sure that everything in the device was working correctly by doing lots of tests,

not only with the software but with the device itself.