Apple to explain why its phones explode
A TOP FRUIT from Apple has an appointment with France's consumer affairs minister to explain why its gear keeps on exploding.
According to Reuters, French consumer affairs minister Herve Novelli will meet with the commercial director of Apple France to discuss the problem after the DGCCRF, the consumer affairs and antifraud directorate, sought an explanation of the incidents.
The meeting follows about a dozen complaints in France over Iphones and Ipods that cracked or exploded. In one case it was reported that an exploding Apple toy injured a security guard's eye.
The meeting will be amusing because Apple's official line is that there is nothing wrong. True the gear does explode sometimes, but these are isolated incidents and only happen to isolated people, in isolated places, and there is no need for any action at all. If Steve Jobs says that Apple's little machines are perfect then anyone who is injured by them is therefore deluded. QED?
Apple has officially said it was aware of the media reports and was studying them, but quite how long it takes to read a newspaper article was not explained.
Apple in Blighty has dealt with the matter adequately by refusing to deal with moaning customers unless they sign a gagging order requiring them never to talk about it even after they are dead.
Unusually for the French, there appears to be no sign of surrender on the matter. A spokesman said that Novelli will "stress the responsibility held by companies regarding general security requirements when they sell equipment to consumers", which is something Apple does not seem to have ever bothered about.
This is the closest thing to the French government slapping Steve Jobs vigorously on both cheeks with a large fish and is usually seen as a precursor to a court case.
Apple's tame US press has not mentioned the meeting, but if they do we think they will probably be using the phrase "cheese eating surrrender monkeys" and blathering about having bailed out the French with glorious US technology and hordes of corn fed cannon fodder 65 years ago. µ
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apple have advanced their product from junk to hazardous junk!
at least you cant accuse them of stagnating!!
It's not accidental, it's a product preview. Later this year Apple plans on revealing it's latest personal digital assistant the iBye. It will feature a state of the art touch screen and will be intended for those increasingly common situations where you want to communicate with someone and then instantly destroy any evidence that you have done so. The iBye will support text, voice and video messaging and will play a user selected MP3 such as the Mission Impossible Theme when the self destruct sequence is initiated.
Apple plans to sell them to the US Military and airdrop them into Taliban strongholds. They explode killing hundreds It is testing them on fanboys first, after all who would miss any of them?
bY adding pORN, FOR fRENCH INQUYE'DA, iDRONE offers free station just for naming location of hut tali lives in. iDRONE dispacthes its Matie, Dr.one & if that missed, Simply iDRONE Explodes due to battery Pressure.
YES=YES?
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This is most definately caused by users jailbreaking the iPhone -lol. Well acorsing to apple anyway!
Jobs: Hey Doc why's my liver hurting so much, feels like its gonna explode.
Doc: No worries, perfectly normal, some livers do explode after transplant. But if it does im sure you'll find another Chinese worker to toss off a roof.
Jobs: Yeah your right, i got shed loads of chinks i can use thanks!!
Hope we don't see further restrictions placed on the lithium-(insert chemistry) availability as a result of this stuff. I fly large scale (electric) model aircraft and that hobby has already seen major movers hobbling away from punting LiPos via airmail for safety reasons. Too bad the QC can't be there as the energy density is simply awesome (as all of you portable gadget freaks no doubt are aware).
What I am surprised about is that none of these items are banned on aircraft. I guess they are waiting until a laptop explodes on a combustable seat and take down a plane before they ban them. The old wait until something bad happens rather then prevent something bad.
Don't give them any ideas or they WILL prevent taking any apples into airplanes as they might explode mid-flight. This also explains the "security" comedy at the airports as they are already trying to prevent you from taking any apple juice to the plane.
We already went through a period where we have to take the battery out of laptop for fear of them exploding midair.
I suppose with iPod and iPhone, the fact that you can't take the battery out means they may face outright ban.
That may teach Apple not to make it impossible to take out their i* batteries.