Since the release of its latest smart phones last week, only nine customers have contacted Apple Inc. about their new iPhone 6 Plus device being bent, according to the company.
“With normal use a bend in iPhone is extremely rare,” a spokesperson for Apple told the Wall Street Journal following reports that the largest iPhone yet is getting bent in the pockets of its user when they sat down. Some video on social media also show people actually bending the phone with their hands.
But Apple probably has a bigger problem on its hands.
The company’s latest operating system, iOS 8 is exhibiting an app crash rate that has eclipsed that of its predecessor.
Mobile app performance management company Crittercism reports that between September 17th and September 22md it found that devices running the new OS crashed 3.56 per cent of the time.
On Wednesday, Apple also had to yank its first update for iOS 8 after customers complained about reports that their iPhone 6 and 6 Plus smart phones could not connect to a cellular network.
iOS 8.0.1 was supposed to fix some bugs on the OS but within minutes of its release, users flooded the iPhone support forum with their complaints.
The developments has led Apple to recommmend that iPhone 6 and 6 Plus users reinstall iOS 8. The company offerred users instructions for reinstalling iOS 8.0 through iTunes. Apple said it is preparing a new software update iOS 8.02. to fix the issue.
To get the instruction click here.
“On the same devices running iOS 7.1 apps only crashed 2 per cent of the two per cent of the time, though that figure is up from 1.6 per cent in March,” according to Jeannie Liou of Crittercism.
The crash rate was measured from about 20,000 mobile apps that the app performance firm monitors for clients such as Netflix, eBay, Groupon, PayPal and Yahoo.
The highest crash rates on iOS8 came from older iPhones like the iPhone 5, 5C and 5S. Apps on these machines crashed 3.3 per cent of the time.
Apps on the brand new iPhone 6 and 6 Plus handsets crashed 2.6 per cent and 2.1 per cent of the time, respectively.
Computerworld quoted Crittercism co-founder Andrew Levy as saying the higher app crash rates for iOS 8 could be attributed to the large number of new application programming interfaces that Apple embedded on the new OS.
Errr… Apple should figure out if those [currently] 9 phones came from the same batch. there is obviously a problem. If there is a correlation between them, Apple should contact the owners of all potential iPhone owners and have them replaced. But this is Apple. they have yet to do something about the GPU problem on some MacBooks.