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Apple Officially Warns Users to Stop Putting Wet iPhones in Rice | The company said the popular remedy could cause "small particles of rice to damage your iPhone." (gizmodo.com)

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Apple Officially Warns Users to Stop Putting Wet iPhones in Rice | The company said the popular remedy could cause "small particles of rice to damage your iPhone."::The company said the popular remedy could cause "small particles of rice to damage your iPhone."

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[–] hazardous_area@lemmy.world 20 points 8 months ago (1 children)

lol you know what else may damage your phone? Being full of water /s, get a grip apple. Make something useful if you must make more money, don’t sell obsolesce and failure.

[–] sebinspace@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Okay but this advice applies to all phones ever.. Rice is absolutely useless for fixing anything but Raja’s economy and being an excuse to eat soy sauce

[–] hazardous_area@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I am not proposing rice as a solution to anything aside from wetted phones.

My post is pointing out that instead of doing something productive or new, apple is telling people not to do something that may actively prevent further damage to their phone. At best that reads like a poor use of time to me.

[–] sebinspace@lemmy.world -1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

may actively prevent further damage

No, it won’t. Used to work in shops that fixed phones. In no instance, fucking ever, did rice have any effect, at all, ever. “I put my phone in rice” is followed by “that’s why you’re here, in my shop, right now” 100% of the time.

[–] GunValkyrie@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The next time someone puts their phone in rice and it does work, do they still need to go to your store to tell you?

[–] sebinspace@lemmy.world 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Oh god yes, please come tell me. Show me what you did, shit, show me what kind of rice you used, show me everything about the process so that I may learn from it, but until I see hard evidence, especially that which cannot be easily attributed to something that isn’t stupid, that something is actually fucking happening, chortle my balls!

[–] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The point is the bias is obviously going to be that you'd see the instances where it didn't work, otherwise they wouldn't have gone into the shop.

[–] sebinspace@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Yeah yeah, I know, survivorship bias and all that, but the rice still does fuck all