Why does the iPhone Duo break like that? Lumafield WIRED

@lumafield @WIRED Short answer one of Apples suppliers used sub par components hence why the defect is only seen in a handful of devices. I’m sure they’ll loose their contract.

@lumafield @WIRED I don't think that's the case, go over to @CNET and look at them opening and closing one. Over 300,000 times and not one problem. People gotta quit sitting on them.

@lumafield @WIRED Excellent demonstration, thank you!

@lumafield @WIRED Okay but what is causing it to get stuck to begin with? There’s reports that it’s just a supplier with defective materials. Not a design flaw

@lumafield @WIRED oof curioushagi posted everything EXCEPT a macro shot of the bearing surfaces on the broken part it's like the internet collectively agreed to censor scientific failure analysis content or something.

@lumafield @WIRED my guess is that two failure rootcause is like this: 1) stress concentration at root of bracket as found by munrolive; this causes the abuse failure (jerryrig, et al) from overextend 2) unmitigated burr or tolerance on part - bearing binds up as shown, opening force breaks it.

@lumafield @WIRED Over-engineered.

@lumafield @WIRED iFixit is not suicidal.

@lumafield @WIRED 💩🤮

@lumafield @WIRED It’s because it’s defective. And a rumour from a leaker says it’s due to a faulty part. And that Apple knows which models have the faulty part.

@lumafield @WIRED This part made by Taiwan?

@lumafield @WIRED ifixit = 💩💩💩

@lumafield @WIRED Cause of isoits my shit been ticking great