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Apple comes up with bizarre excuse for faulty iPhone X

by on15 September 2017


Others are not supposed to look at your phone

The fruity cargo-cult Apple, yeah you heard it first here,  is famous for its "dog ate my homework" excuses when its overpriced technology suffers from design flaws – normally blaming the customers.

Who can forget “you are holding it wrong” and the sudden insistence that the iPhone needed a rubber band put around it.

So when Apple’s facial recognition feature failed to unlock a handset at an on-stage demo at the iPhone X's launch on Tuesday we expected Jobs' Mob to come up with an excuse which matched the intelligence of its PR department. Fortunately, we were not disappointed.

According to Apple, and we kid you not, its most expensive iPhone ever made developed a fault because a staff member moved it before it was unveiled.

Now, call us cynical, but surely the purpose of a mobile phone is that it can be moved without breaking?

"People were handling the device for [the] stage demo ahead of time and didn't realise Face ID was trying to authenticate their face", an unnamed company representative said.

So you are seriously saying that everytime an Apple fanboy shows his new phone to the people he thinks are his friends, or his mother, the facial recognition software will break?

"After failing a number of times, because they weren't Craig [Federighi], the iPhone did what it was designed to do, which was to require his passcode", said an Apple spinner.

Apple's software chief dealt with the hiccup by moving on to a back up device, which worked as intended, we guess he had to move that from somewhere.

The Tame Apple Press has been doing its best to play down the fiasco. Pointing out the problem only lasted ten seconds and Federighi was able to get it to go eventually. Although he was only able to get it to go because he had a backup $1000 iPhone which will probably not be possible for most iPhone users.

 

Last modified on 15 September 2017
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