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Apple Tries To Gag Owner of Exploding iPod

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the streisand-this dept.

David Gerard writes "The Times in London reports that Apple attempted to silence a father and daughter with a gagging order after the child's iPod music player exploded and the family sought a refund from the company. Well, at least they're not Microsoft. Or something."

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  1. Exploding ipod? Don't worry! by Vinegar+Joe · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's not a bug, it's a feature!

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    1. Re:Exploding ipod? Don't worry! by KDR_11k · · Score: 5, Funny

      Apple is going for the middle eastern fundamentalist market then?

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    2. Re:Exploding ipod? Don't worry! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      It's not a bug, it's a feature!

      There's an app for that

    3. Re:Exploding ipod? Don't worry! by kimvette · · Score: 5, Funny

      You need to jailbreak the phone to install it though. Apple rejected it from the iTunes store because it duplicated their native functionality.

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    4. Re:Exploding ipod? Don't worry! by aplusjimages · · Score: 5, Funny

      iPlode is what you were looking for.

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    5. Re:Exploding ipod? Don't worry! by dna_(c)(tm)(r) · · Score: 5, Funny

      72 free downloads at Virgin records

    6. Re:Exploding ipod? Don't worry! by mdwh2 · · Score: 5, Funny

      It Just Explodes.

      Apple may not have been the first to do this, but they were the ones who popularised it. They also make it easy: no need for complex buttons to press, Apple have pioneered the "open-hand" gesture, which causes the device to drop, and initiate destruction after a short time period.

      Other products may win out on paper in terms of pure feature lists, but it's the attention to little details, such as the seamless integration of a music player and a product that blows up in your face.

    7. Re:Exploding ipod? Don't worry! by skine · · Score: 3, Funny

      Until three shall you count, and the number of your count shall be three...

      Ref: The Hand Grenade of Antioch

      We are the knights who... oh God, I'm so sorry,

      So sorry, the car just came too fast and

      She was right there and I saw her and then it was a blur and so much
      I ran to help didn't know what she wasn't moving I'm so sorry...

      Anyway, yeah, Knights who say "Ni."

    8. Re:Exploding ipod? Don't worry! by 6Yankee · · Score: 5, Funny

      72, but they're all Slashdotters.

  2. What was that diturbance in the Force? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well, at least they're not Microsoft. Or something.

    It's as if a billion Fanboys all cried out at once.

    1. Re:What was that diturbance in the Force? by Gumbercules!! · · Score: 5, Funny

      and were suddenly silenced... by a gag order.

  3. Picture by abigsmurf · · Score: 5, Funny

    The 11 year old wearing such heavy makeup (lipstick, mascara and other stuff I'm too manly to admit to knowing the names of) is far more worrying than the burnt out ipod she's holding

    1. Re:Picture by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      I take it you never been to England then?

      make-up seems to be compulsory part of the school uniform from the age of 8 upwards

      I welcome anything that takes your eyes off their teeth.

    2. Re:Picture by synthesizerpatel · · Score: 3, Funny

      I think Homer put the make-up shotgun on 'whore'.

  4. Re:iDiots... by lawaetf1 · · Score: 4, Funny

    And what do you propose to do with all those corporate lawyers if companies simply acted sensibly and didn't default to litigation for everything? The unemployment rate is already sky-high, we don't need a wave of unemployable, irritable suits hitting the streets.

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  5. Re:Surprises me this doesn't happen more often by DetpackJump · · Score: 3, Funny

    Crunch it the wrong way and you get an internal short and a runaway reaction, which produces a lot of gas

    Reminds me of that chalupa I had at Taco Bell last week.

  6. Re:It turned me into a newt! by jacksonj04 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Oddly, one of my desired specs for any product is "can use without vomiting slightly".

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  7. Apple's declining quality by AliasMarlowe · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's an appalling screw-up: when they explode, there isn't supposed to be any survivor, or evidence.

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  8. Re:It turned me into a newt! by ZeroPly · · Score: 5, Funny

    I've had the opposite experience, personally...

    You bought something from Apple and it didn't burst into flame and/or explode?

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  9. Re:It turned me into a newt! by moondawg14 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Excepting Syrup of Epicac, of course.