Chinese Consumer Group Has Asked Apple To Investigate 'a Considerable Number' of iPhone Shutdowns (businessinsider.com)

An anonymous reader writes:The China Consumers Association (CCA) has asked Apple to investigate "a considerable number" of reports by users of iPhone 6 and 6s phones that the devices have been shutting off and cannot be turned back on again, it said on Tuesday. The reported problems specifically involve users seeing their iPhones automatically shut off despite 50-60 percent battery levels, and the involuntary shutting off in room temperature or colder environments, as well as the inability to turn the cellphone back on despite continuous battery charging, the statement said. "In view that Apple iPhone 6 and iPhone 6s series cellphones in China have a considerable number of users, and the number of people who've reported this problem is rather many, China Consumer Association has already made a query with Apple," the association said in a statement on its website.

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Questions.

[garote]

First question: Are they knockoffs?
Second question: If this is only happening in China, has the Chinese government asked Apple to modify their firmware in some way?
Third question: Are we hearing about this because someone is trying to FUD Apple out of the Chinese market?

Re:Questions.

[Killall -9 Bash]

oh, boo hooo. We sell a few less iPhones. How will the American workers who manufacture and assemble iPhones live?!?!?! Oh, wait.......

If China wants to take some spare change out of the pockets of the 1%-ers who sent our fucking jobs to China in the first place, FUCKING GREAT.

Re:Questions.

[mrclevesque]

From the link:

“Apple took my phone and details, but said it couldn’t have been the phone because it didn’t have a distinct smell,”

It doesn't tell us how often it happens but it does tell us it happens with iphones too