So of course they cancelled that.

If this ruling sticks then a major adjustment in AAPL's price is coming down the tracks. Should be good for roughly a 15-20% drop. At 16, AAPL's p/e is looking a little pricey in any case. Other tech perps are no doubt peering anxiously over their shoulders but AAPL is the standout bad actor.

Correction: it's that and death.

It's only Apple that doesn't regard a wake up call for good engineering as insightful.

The pattern is pretty much all the same. The paid astromodders show up a day or two after the article, to protect Apple's shiny reputation from any tarnish by truth.

But you can bend the iPhone 6+ in half with your fingers. I call that flimsy.

Hey Apple astromod, what is not accurate about that? I would say the odour of desperation is getting pretty thick.

Perhaps. By making the iPhone 2 mm thicker Apple could have avoided bendgate and also the embarrassing situation where the camera sticks out so the phone can't lie flat. But Jobs is dead, so...

But don't you think it's kind of crappy that the iPhone 6 is so flimsy, especially for the price?

Apple bills its latest product as a premium phone and brags endlessly about the supposed build quality, apparently justify the high price tag. But the truth is, Apple's latest product is a questionably engineered flimsy thing that costs just $200 to make. Not premium at all. Nothing to distinguish it from the competition, quite the contrary. Apple is now engaged in a desperate dance to hide that rather obvious fact from joe idiot apple consumer.

It would seem that Apple astromodders running rampant. And why not? It is worth $billions to Apple to spin this issue away. Why not shed a little ethics to achieve such a worthy goal?

Hmm, this is for Apple astroturfers downmodding that inconvenient truth. New video posted by the bendgate dude to rebut the swarm of camp followers claiming the test was somehow faked or exaggerated. If anything, worse results for Apple this time.

OK, spin that Apple.

You mean, there is an "excuse" for the the round numbers, not a legitimate reason. Consider that upping the force in 1 pound increments would have scarcely increased the cost of the experiment while dramatically improving the quality of the result.

Now, finding that the 6+ is significantly stiffer than the smaller and only slightly thinner 6 is really surprising isn't it? So surprising that you wonder about the repeatability of the result. Notice in the video that the right hand side of the 6+ is positioned noticeably past the pencil mark, while the HTC one is positioned perceptibly inside the mark. Oops.

So... these guys found that the 6+ is stiffer than the 6. Wow, what a surprise considering that the length/thickness ratio of the 6+ is 22.27 while the 6 is 20.01. OK, I am going to have to raise a flag here. Sorry, just calling themselves "consumer" does not mean they are immune to bad science, or worse.

Obviously, the consumer reports testing was completely scientific, after all, they are known to be on the side of the consumer, right? It is nothing less than astonishing that the HTC One happened to tie the iPhone 6 exactly. And of course, this video must have been faked.

Or maybe Apple should engineer their products better.