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To: bolobaby
Nice graphic. Is that the same one you used when iPhones were catching fire?

Your post has nothing to do with this article or this recall. It is just you being your usual trolling Anti-Apple Hate Brigade self. Nice Try, bolobaby. . . Thanks for playing.

By the way, of the 1.2 billion iOS devices sold, there has never been a recall. . . or a consistent problem with overheating batteries. Apple did recall 32,000 batteries for some Model 5200 Apple laptops back in the 1990s for overheating batteries made by Sony, which Sony made good on. . . but then Sony made the same batteries for Dell who had to recall over 90,000 of them. Apple had SIX of those Sony's overheat and not one fire. Dell actually had a fire in that incident. There were also some Lithium Ion Batteries that heated enough to swell and distort the laptop cases in the mid-2000s that Apple repaired under warranty, even though the warranty period had expired.

4 posted on 08/02/2015 9:50:35 PM PDT by Swordmaker ( This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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To: Swordmaker

Apple had an recall last year for swelling/defective batteries in iPhones, plus an earlier recall for iPods with overheating batteries. There have also been a couple of Apple power adapter recalls for laptops.


14 posted on 08/02/2015 10:33:16 PM PDT by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: Swordmaker

Just an interesting choice of graphic.

Here’s the deal:

1. No one has a count of Nvidia devices that have actually caught fire. Could be one. Could be none.

2. When Apple identifies a problem with their hardware/software and proactively tells people to bring their devices in or issues a fix, you gush about how far ahead of these things they are... how far ahead of the curve... what a great service company... etc.

3. The graphic - and the one you choose when posting any link about potential security threats (the “measles android”) - is a clear scare tactic. What do you call it? FUD? You have no idea how many units have actually caught fire, but you choose the FUD graphic. Why?

4. You run an Apple ping list, but anything non-Apple related is given this FUD treatment, with scary graphics and everything.

This is the old discussion we had about maintaining SOME semblance of objectively and NOT look like a paid social marketer for Apple.


20 posted on 08/03/2015 7:02:34 AM PDT by bolobaby
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