Author: Adam Rosenberg / Source: Mashable
As much as we’d all like to leave 2018 firmly in the past where it belongs, Apple can’t seem to shake one pesky problem from the prior year: bendgate.
The company has delivered yet another explanation for the slight bend some users have noted in the latest generation of iPad Pro.
The trouble started in November, shortly after the tablet launched, when a video of someone easily folding a Pro in half went viral.Apple addressed the situation in mid-December, noting that the warping people had noticed was a product of the device’s manufacturing process — but it’s not a defect. A few days after that, an Apple exec responded to a customer support request with a more involved explanation.
The same email noted that a more official, public response would be coming. It never surfaced, not even after Mashable reached out for comment, but it’s important to note that all of this unfolded just a couple days before Christmas.
Now, just a few days into the new year, Apple’s most detailed explanation yet is available, in the form of a support doc posted on the company’s website.
The issue, according to Apple, relates specifically to LTE-capable models of iPad…
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