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French teenager hurt by shattering iPhone
- dkokelley 17y agoApple allegedly offered a refund for the girl's iPod on condition that the family sign a confidentiality agreement. Now I don't know all of the details of what happened, but this appears to be the wrong action by Apple. The replacement is without condition. The settlement is in return for confidentiality.
- hughprime 17y agoIs this really possible? If possible, is it really likely that it would have happened twice, within three weeks, in two adjacent countries, after millions of iPhones have been in service without any "random explosion" incidents for well over a year now? Is it more likely than the competing "teenager does something stupid and lies about it" scenario?
- kqr2 17y agoLithium ion batteries can explode under certain conditions: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium-ion_battery http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium-ion_battery
- tlrobinson 17y agoIf a certain batch of phones (or most likely, batteries) were defective, then you would expect failures to be clustered together.