#Bendgate Hoax Exposed – Who is Attacking Apple?

What a controversy!  

By now, we’ve all seen the “Bengate” video of the iPhone 6+ being bent by hand but now it turns out that the video that’s gone viral may have been FAKED!!!  This is a video that knocked 5% off AAPL’s stock price this week, costing its investors $30Bn in lost market value – so not a harmless hoax.

As a disclaimer, it’s important to note that, in our first Webcast of the year, we picked AAPL as our top trade idea and again, on TV on March 6th, I was almost embarrassed to say AAPL was once again our trade of the year for BNN (it was last year’s trade too).  AAPL is up 33% since than and our initial trade idea is up over 300% (we used options for leverage) but we still have bullish AAPL trades in our Member Portfolios – so we do like the company and have some bias…

That being said, we don’t know the bias of “Unbox Therapy” and we don’t KNOW that it’s a hoax but it’s starting to seem like one as AAPL has already put out a rare public statement rebuffing the claim, stating that only 9 customers to date have complained of bent phones (out of 20M sold) and now Consumer Reports has done a test confirming that, indeed, you can’t bend an iPhone 6 Plus with your bare hands.  

Speaking of hands, there are some inconsistencies in the Unbox video that are very disturbing.  First of all, look at the hands in the image above and then look at the guy narrating the video – people are saying those are not the same hands.  That may or may not be the case but it is certainly the case that there’s a huge discrepancy in the video itself:

As you can see, the phone he is bending “live” at 1:38 in the video says it’s Tuesday, 23rd at 2:26 but then, 40 seconds later, the “same” phone says it’s 1:58.  This is not an editing discrepancy since he had an UNBENT phone just seconds before 2:26 that…