Chinese iPhone buyers complain of scratches on new Pro models

The deep blue variants of the iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max exhibited scuffs and scratches after just a few hours of being on display, Bloomberg News found from visits to Apple’s Hong Kong and Shanghai stores. It’s the US company’s first major hardware redesign in years, returning to an aluminum shell and featuring what Apple had touted as a more scratch-resistant finish on the back.Instead, images of grazed-up store units surfaced on China’s Weibo, and display models in the stores Bloomberg visited exhibited ...