14 DAY TRIAL // A YouTube video titled “How To Properly Grind an iPhone 6” uploaded on January 9 shows a person destroying an iPhone 6 Plus using a DeWalt angle grinder. Our question is, how is this still happening four months after the device debuted?
“Want to smooth out your iPhone 6 edges and leave it with a fresh clean new design? Well you may just want to try this method...or not,” reads the description.
The protagonist is not at his first destroyed iPhone 6, and probably not the last either. The clip’s title is misleading, because the real intention is to destroy the phone completely. There isn’t even a pun or a catch. It’s just a dumb video showing someone ruining a perfectly good iPhone 6, making you lose faith in humanity.
With 345K views racked up in five days, this video might not even pay for the destroyed iPhone (though previous videos surely have). What’s surprising is that this sort of thing – purposefully destroying iPhones on video with no apparent reason – keeps happening months into the phone’s debut.
Who even watches these videos anymore, except for the perplexed tech editor that ends up writing about it and ultimately exposing it to the world? Nevermind, don’t answer that.
