Like every year since the Antennagate of the iPhone 4, the iPhone 7 has come with its own -gate. This year's "scandal" has been called hissgate and it would be a problem that would cause an iPhone 7 or iPhone 7 Plus to emit a hissing sound when the processor A10 Fusion is working in a demanding way. The first to sound the alarm about this problem was the YouTube channel 512 Pixels.
The point is, few iPhone scandals have been truly significant. If I remember correctly, removing the Antennagate and Bendgate, which I did not suffer or know of anyone who suffered, the rest have been more a complaint or a tantrum of something nonsensical (Chipgate?) Considering the price of the iPhone. That may have been the case with the Hissgate, a viral case that has not lasted long which started with the following video.
Hissgate: how it all began
Stephen Hackett recorded the above video, posted it on YouTube and was amazed at how quickly the number of views was increasing. The video lasted only 14 seconds and it is actually a still image with a background sound of the famous hiss. But this moment was not as good for him as many of us could imagine, as he explains in a text he has written now that everything has passed:
I'm glad it's over now. It is not because I believe that I have damaged the Apple brand or my relationship with Apple. My job is to report on my experiences using their products and living in their ecosystem, and that could have put me - and many others - at oddities with the company from time to time.
While it was insane to see the meter go up so high, that came at a price. Seeing the responses of people who wanted to stab me and reading articles that questioned my honesty by recounting what was happening and misrepresenting it to defend Apple at my expense was painful.
It was all… exhausting. I'm happy it's already off the news. I don't regret reporting my experience, but if I had known things were going to get so out of hand, I'm not sure if I would have.
As Hackett says, the Hissgate is history. The owners of an iPhone 7 or an iPhone 7 Plus no longer complain about the problem, while others who have heard the now famous hiss say that it is not something so serious, that you have to stick your ear to the terminal a lot and that that hiss also appears on other devices from a brand other than Apple. In short, it seems that this hiss is something similar to what we can hear on any computer when it is working, but on a small scale.
Do you agree with the latter? Have you suffered or are you suffering from Hissgate and it does not seem normal to you?