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Apple Faces Inquiries In the EU On iPhone Accidents
o'reor writes "As more cases of iPhone screen explosions emerge in the news on this side of the pond, Apple is now facing official inquiries and lawsuits in France. This situation has forced Apple finally to break silence and acknowledge the incidents: 'We are aware of these reports and we are waiting to receive the iPhones from the customers. Until we have the full details, we don't have anything further to add.' Following those reports, the European Commission had already decided last week to step in, while Apple tried to dismiss the problem as 'isolated incidents.' Meanwhile, iPhone explosion-related sites are now popping up on the Internet, releasing games such as iPop to chill out and relax on the subject, but also giving users advice on preventing iPhone accidents, or detecting imminent explosions."
Ah, but when the result is simply fines and no real change to the operation of the company...
You are obviously a troll. My employer gave me a free Macbook (they asked me to develop for the iphone, so they had to I guess) and it is great... oh wait, it is great because I gave it back! Compared to a $400 Lenovo (after coupon) I bought at about the same time, it proved slower, heavier (with smaller screen at the same time!), hotter and with a retarded power adapter that falls off most of my (US) outlets and is a pain to unplug from the laptop side (when the plug is tiny and slippery, magnetic does not help much). Oh, did I mention you have to do silly tricks (closing the lid etc) to get the dual screen setup to work? The only thing on par with the Lenovo was the sharp edges you mention, which, sadly, the Lenovo did not avoid either (seriously, is that a new trend? I don't remember my older laptops trying to slit my wrists). As for development, I had them get me a new mac mini. It is not faster, it is only marginally less expensive, but it works adequately on a KVM with the same dual monitor & keyboard/mouse setup I have for my Linux machines and does not drive me nuts near as much as the Macbook (well the OS still annoys me greatly at times, but I guess it is not the hardware's fault - I could run Linux if only I did not have to develop on Xcode...).
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what do you base that on?
Apple has pretty good support.
And why would the send the unit back? Wouldn't the owners want theirs replaced?
At some point they're going to need to ahve someone investigate the actual iPod.
To any trained person, it will be very obvious what caused this pretty quick.
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