The Watergate scandal was one of the biggest political events of the 1970s, but it was nothing compared to a slightly bendy iPhone. Or at least, that’s how it’s seemed over the last decade or two, with relatively minor Apple design flaws and business decisions given the “gate” suffix and turned into global scandals.
Some of those scandals were entirely Apple’s fault, but others were massive overreactions - and when some outlets saw the attention anything Apple-gate gathered, there were some pretty blatant attempts to create scandals over things that really didn’t matter.
