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After a User Dies, Apple Warns Against Counterfeit Chargers
After a Chinese woman was earlier this month evidently electrocuted while talking on her iPhone while it was plugged in to charge, Apple is warning users to avoid counterfeit chargers. From CNet:
"Last week, reports surfaced in China that suggested the woman, Ma Ailun, might have been using a third-party charger designed to look like the real thing. Although third-party chargers are not uncommon, they vary widely in terms of safety and quality.
Earlier this year, safety consulting and certification company UL issued a warning that counterfeit Apple USB chargers were making the rounds and that consumers should be on the lookout for them due to their lower quality and possibly dangerous defects. The company posted the guidance on its site after a woman was allegedly electrocuted while answering a call on her iPhone."
It's the "big lie". What is the charger for an Android phone? Oh right, a standard USB cable. What is the charger for an Apple product? Oh right, an electric chair waiting to happen. Compounded by the aluminum case. Hey isn't that the same aluminum case that makes an awful antenna?
Apple: think deadly.
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
Are you saying that China has counterfeit electronics? And that they don't meet safety standards? This simply must be a joke.
What's wrong with the standard USB adapter like everyone else? Oh aside from them making a cock load of money...
What's wrong with the standard butt load or ass load like everyone else uses? Butts and asses generally hold larger loads than do cocks, thus serving as more effective terms for expressing the concept of an impressively large unit of volume (unless you were specifically referring to the cocks of large marine mammals?).
Current shmurrent. She died because she wasn't holding it right.
This is what's known as "spin" in non-apple ecosystems. I know Apple would never lie to you though, so let's just call it "iSpin"
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"purchased threw a reputable source"?
Really?
I've played that sentence through my screen reading software 3 times and it sounds fine to me.
Incorrect. The difference is the iPhone has the best new...
...killer app.
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'We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.' RPF
In that case she was obviously holding it wrong.