Apple still ignoring ‘touch disease,’ would really prefer you just bought an iPhone 7


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A few weeks ago, we covered the so-called “touch disease” that’s killing iPhone 6 and 6 Plus hardware well before its expiration date. The problem, according to all reports, arose because of design flaws intrinsic to the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus. The phone’s tendency to flex under stress, combined with manufacturing deficiencies in how certain chips are attached to the motherboard inside the phone, leads to a problem where the integrated circuits (ICs) that allow the screen to sense when it’s being touched and react accordingly no longer work properly.
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