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This "vanishingly small" number is still way, way too high. Five in a week? If there's one thing you don't want your electronics to do it's potentially kill peo

This "vanishingly small" number is still way, way too high. Five in a week? If there's one thing you don't want your electronics to do it's potentially kill people. There was a rash of exploding battery cells in the 2006-2007 era where Apple even issued a recall. At the time Apple was still using off-the-shelf cells and hadn't started to make their own batteries. This affected many other vendors using the same suppliers. Even Boeing's planes were not immune to battery problems, with the 787 famously suffering some serious issues, including fires. Battery technology is something that's very hard to get absolutely right, to render something safe enough it won't explode. You want a lot of "sigmas" in your quality to avoid any serious defects. I don't know what Apple does to their batteries, but the sorts of abuse they can apparently endure without catching fire is remarkable: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iy5kAY5SqEk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iy5kAY5SqEk

piyush_soni 10y ago
I don't know what Apple does to their batteries >> iPhone 6 (/Plus) has exploded quite a few times actually (not pasting links here, a simple search shows many). And the iPhone 7 too : http://www.express.co.uk/life-style/science-technology/719587/Apple-iPhone-Explode-Battery http://www.express.co.uk/life-style/science-technology/71958... Most of the other phones are not exploding (other brands/Samsung's other phones) in significant numbers, so Note 7 is a one off case.
- astrodust 10y ago
  I don't know what Samsung did to cause all these explosions, but I hope these are thoroughly investigated. If it's a manufacturing problem, that's one thing, but I have a sneaking suspicion this could boil down to software. You can measure your manufacturing process very closely, but testing embedded software, such as in the battery itself, is a total nightmare by comparison.

piyush_soni 10y ago

I don't know what Apple does to their batteries >> iPhone 6 (/Plus) has exploded quite a few times actually (not pasting links here, a simple search shows many). And the iPhone 7 too : http://www.express.co.uk/life-style/science-technology/719587/Apple-iPhone-Explode-Battery http://www.express.co.uk/life-style/science-technology/71958... Most of the other phones are not exploding (other brands/Samsung's other phones) in significant numbers, so Note 7 is a one off case.

astrodust 10y ago
I don't know what Samsung did to cause all these explosions, but I hope these are thoroughly investigated. If it's a manufacturing problem, that's one thing, but I have a sneaking suspicion this could boil down to software. You can measure your manufacturing process very closely, but testing embedded software, such as in the battery itself, is a total nightmare by comparison.