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Apple's Amsterdam Store Evacuated After iPad Battery Explodes (9to5mac.com)
Slashdot readers radi0man and DeBaas report of an exploding iPad battery in Apple's Amsterdam store. DeBaas writes: An exploding iPad led to the Amsterdam Apple store being evacuated, as reported by 9to5mac and local news in dutch. The store reopened after the fire brigade ventilated the store. 9to5Mac notes that this is the third evacuation this year of an Apple store due to an exploding battery -- the other two were from iPhones. The iPad and its punctured battery were put in a container of sand after it exploded. No major injuries were reported, however, "three employees who experienced trouble breathing were treated by first responders," reports 9to5Mac.
I'm surprised all of their stores are not in flames.
Let the employees take the brunt of the explosion, that's what they're paid for.
It seems that keeping the iPads/iPhones plugged into an electric outlet all the time, and running all the time, has an unexpected outcome. Moreover we're in summer...
Slashdot, fix the reply notifications... You won't get away with it...
Lots of people died.
Karma. Remember all the Apple fanboys gloating about Note 7 battery issues? Cue payback. I am not a Samsung fanboy by any means, but that performance by Apple folks was just plain galling. Samsung responded to the issue quickly and fairly, let's see what Apple does. (I'm not expecting much.)
Oh, and there were persistent reports of Apple products catching fire, even electrocuting people throughout that same period. Apple just makes me ill.
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
Remember Apple fanboys laughing at the Samsung exploding battery fiasco. Poor Apple Fanboys.
As a mobile developer I've had an iPhone for years but ever since Steve Jobs died it's gone downhill. So many basic things are bugged or broken with noone accepting responsibility. Their messenger keyboards bug out all the time so you can't see what you're typing. iOS has an insane amount of problems especially with browsers operating on it (lets talk modal windows with forms).
Every single person I know who worked at Apple has left due to the work environment and lack of accountability. That's saying something since many of them were super fans. I could go on but this is exactly what happened to Microsoft.
Ban them on aircraft! Quick. Launch a world wide plane ban and recall.
Apple employees secured the iPad and punctured battery in a container of sand after it exploded.
So, a quick thinking genius ran down to the canal and quickly scooped up a bucket of sand? No, this is the standard bucket of sand you always keep on hand because you are surround by Apple products.
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
batteries got some toxic shit in them. I'm sure the honest trillion dollar tax paying corporation will do the right thing and pay for their cancer treatments in 20 years.
A Brand New Apple iBomb
The Notes 7 and all iPads are aviation hazards...
Everyone else in Amsterdam is lighting up, why can't the iPads get a turn.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Wow, there are so many reports of Apple products exploding, how about this one. If Apple was an auto company there would be multiple class action suits already. Why do they get a pass?
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
Still way ahead of Samsung on the "exploding in inconvenient places" index...
My IOS and Mac devices stay plugged in all the time without issue either... which is worth as much as your anecdote, probably more as being a mobile developer I have several iPads and iPhones some of which are plugged in all the time.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
I'm a little worried that an emergency container of sand appears to be standard equipment in an Apple store.
I didn't hear about the first two. Sounds like Apple fans need to rethink their tired Samsung Note 7 jokes.
Seems to be a necessary standard Apple accessory now. But you have to hold it right.
As always, do not try to replace swelling batteries. Proceed as soon as possible in an Apple Store or a nearby official Apple Service Provider. how to check jio balance
A long time ago I used to do iOS development and had a small desk full of testing devices. Most of these didn't do anything at all- they just sat there charging all day long until I needed one for debugging purposes.
In total, I had 4x iPhone 4S units, 4x iPad 2 units, and a few other newer devices over the years (one 5C, 5S, SE, iPhone 6 and 6S).
After about 2-3 years of sitting on the dock, the 4S and iPad 2 units started splitting open when the batteries swelled up. After about 1-2 years, the newer units went as well. Each and every single time I contacted Apple about these issues, they sounded like they were going to launch an immediate investigation until we got to the part where they were sitting on the dock for >= 1 year. Each and every single time, they dismissed this issue as being "my fault"- that somehow their devices weren't designed to sit on a charger and not be used. Each and every single time, the case was closed without any sort of resolution, other than that I should either take the devices into an Apple Store (we have none on the island I live on) or dispose of them by taking them down to the nearest fire station.
FWIW, the devices that I did use are still working just fine even to today. I've got exactly one iPhone 4S and iPad 2 that survived, plus the iPhone SE. Those three devices saw daily use and were always drained down below 80%, then returned to the charger for the night.
It seems like there's some sort of design flaw with their charge controller and/or batteries that don't anticipate a device not being used. After a while, the batteries get overcharged and swell up. I have no doubt that if I'd left those devices on the charger any longer than I did, they would have likely burst and burned down my house (which I pointed out to Apple, but again the response was more or less "you're using them wrong").
TLDR; use your Apple devices or they will explode and Apple will blame you for not actually using them.
need to be banned for sure. That's always been a good idea.
Make it a little thicker, just so the battery can release gas and bulge rather than explode.
"Apple's Amsterdam Store Evacuated After Heterosexual White Male Walks Through The Door".
Say what you will, but so long as Apple remains the user experience king it will continue its reign. Not to mention the security benefits for everyday people.
Im sure someone disagrees and will go on a diatribe but itâ(TM)s ok to be wrong.
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Let's make like a bird... and get the flock outta here.
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How many times do I have to tell you not to feed those folk Mexican food! Thatâ(TM)s why they keep exploding!
Reign in what way? They have 15% of the phone market and much less in desktop and laptop computers.
And apparently this is the third time it's happened. Yet when it was a Samsung phone battery exploding, I knew about it because everywhere was making jokes about Samsung phones being a terrorist device, etc.
So why the silence here?
They don't reign over me. I've never had an iphone and don't plan to. I get my better quality Xiaomi phones direct from China and save a good bit of money.
If one in a million batteries catches fire per year that seems like a very rare, maybe acceptable risk.
- compared to the risk of _being_ killed by a firearm in the US of about 30 in a million persons per year*1
Apple sold > 200'000'000 iPhones in the last 4 quarters.(*2) So that would mean 200 exploding new iPhones per year.
The press would be all over it, so the real number and thus the risk must be waaaay lower.
Same goes for Samsung and the rest, of course. So move along, nothing to see here. But yes, it's funny that it happened in an Apple Store :)
*1 combining topics Apple and guncontrol, because fire is fun. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/ind...
*2 these numbers are impressive and kind of frightening. https://www.statista.com/stati...
...to use an ipad.
On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.
you never know which one will blow up.
On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.
Now, can Apple STOP making everything so damn thin? That's ultimately what is causing all of these problems. Hot batteries need room to expand. Who the hell is demanding ultrathin phones anyway?
Ipad batteries catch fire.
Business is booming
MI message caused destruction? Guessing was a display unit that might have been mishandled by staff or shop dwellers. Though could be a bad battery, not installed correctly, perhaps mischievous aliens or earthlings sabotage? Hopefully the EU authorities investigate and share more since details are limited. Hopefully diagnostic software can be developmed to help sense troubled batteries?
The LiIon battery is basically a little hand grenade waiting to go off. We are packing so much energy into such small spaces that there is always a risk of releasing that energy unexpectedly. The problem is you never really know when this release might happen. Through careful manufacturing and quality control we can make such events fairly rare, but the risk will remain.
The biggest issue is we are pushing the boundaries for size and weight at a given storage capacity, making the manufacturing tolerances extremely tight and hard to maintain.
Then... There is the mishandling and abuse problem for LiIon batteries. It's almost a sure bet that abusing one of these things, by bending it, puncturing it or otherwise using it out of it's designed environmental conditions can easily set one off. And it seems that repair facilities are where this risk is greatest. If you do such work, best be prepared for this eventuality and have procedures to deal with it. Apparently Apple is doing just that.
"File to fit, pound to insert, paint to match" - Aircraft Maintenance 101
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The five vowels are all represented here.
A - is for Amsterdam (Ha! You thought it was for Apple, didn't you, fanboi?)
E - is for evac
I - is for iPad
O - OMG!
U - have to see this: the sandbox
Fire extinguisher still suggested. Feel free to order these specialized sandboxes. shortened Amazon search url for copy-n-paste: https://is.gd/bMuf4R
If you read the manuals for Apple products very carefully, you will find that the reason the products are provided in such attractive boxes is because after unboxing, you are supposed to buy enough sand to fill the box and then always carry and keep the box of sand with the device in case of fire. While the products are slim and light, that six pound box of sand is sort of a pain to carry around.