I was going to headline the news as "the bitten apple ... has come out crooked" but in the end I have thought twice. An iPhone with a curious manufacturing error has been sold these days for almost 3.000 Euros. It turns out that the Apple logo on the back of the device is crooked.
Surely the user who got this defective unit was not very funny. If you pay more than a thousand Euros for a mobile, you demand that it be perfect. But he was clever, and instead of returning it to the store for defective, he put it up for sale as collector's item. And the play has gone well. I'm going to take mine and rub the logo with alcohol to see if I can erase it. If I get it, I'll order another 3.000 from the wing….
The production process of a device as expensive as an iPhone is very strict, and all units manufactured are perfect. Or almost all of them. Images posted to Twitter this week show a manufacturing error on an iPhone 11 Pro, which could be as rare as about 1 in 100 million.
A misprint iPhone 11 Pro that sold for 2700 $. This misprint is extremely rare- I'd say 1 in 100 million or possibly even rarer. pic.twitter.com/68F7giZAm
- Internal Archive (@ArchiveInternal) April 9, 2021
The images were shared by the account «Internal Archiveon Twitter, where images of rare Apple prototypes and accessories are regularly posted. The iPhone 11 Pro they show has a misaligned Apple logo on the back of the device, as it is slightly more to the right than it should be.
Resold for $ 2.700
The tweet states that this iPhone 11 Pro badly printed it could show up as 1 in 100 million, or "possibly even rarer." According to the account, this device was recently sold for U.S. dollar 2.700, an amount much greater than its actual price.
The strange thing about it is that said defective terminal passed the quality controls and it will reach the end user. Sometimes there are manufacturing failures, but the company takes care of destroying the defective units before finishing the manufacturing and packaging process, so that they do not become collectors' items, as has happened in this case.