Yup, now the iPhone 7 is exploding

Boy Genius Report ^ | Sep 29, 2016 | Zach Epstein

[Shanghai Dan]

The world’s leading smartphone makers just can’t stop copying each other. While the company has certainly improved its image over the past few years, Samsung is likely most famous for being an Apple copycat. After all, the company was sued repeatedly by Apple for stealing its technology and designs. And as we all learned, things got so crazy at one point that Samsung even created a 132-page internal document to help its engineers copy the iPhone pixel by pixel. Of course, Apple is hardly innocent in all this. The iPhone maker has aped plenty of features from Android in recent years, and it probably never would have made iPhones with large displays if Samsung hadn’t paved the way.

[House Atreides]

And....perhaps one of Hillary’s staffers encountered this in the shipping channels and went after the box with a hammer. :^)

But seriously, the box appears, to me anyhow, like it suffered some crushing type damage in the shipping process.

[Sawdring]

My Note 7 hasn’t exploded yet.

[tophat9000]

It’s not a flaw. Apple has joined with Tesla

This is Apples new seat warmer feature

[roadcat]

Thousands of Samsung phones exploding or having overheating issues, forcing a recall of millions.

A story of one iPhone 7 phone supposedly exploding in the box during transit.

No comparison, not rating a recall the likes of Samsung recalling millions of phones.

[minnesota_bound]

I think this is a plot by the Chinese.
Burn down America bit by bit with iPhones and Note 7’s etc.

[BereanBrain]

if you look at the other pictures at on reddit, it’s obvious that the phone was heavily damaged during shipment.

So, do you know what happens when you damage a battery?

Bogus.

[RetiredTexasVet]

FBI Director, James Comey has attributed it as an internal flaw introduced by Russian Hackers.

[Windflier]

I’ve had my Motorola Android phone going on three years. Ain’t blowed up yet.

[RandallFlagg]

ping

[Swordmaker]

An Apple iPhone 7 has been found to have over heated and/or caught fire during shipping to its purchaser. BGR reports "All joking aside — and before other sites catch wind of this story and go crazy with it — this clearly appears to be an isolated incident, at least for the time being" . . . but it is worrisome. It is known that Lithium Ion Polymer batteries have a failure rate of approximately 1 in 6,000,000 in this fashion, and estimates are Apple sold more than 12 million in the first weekend of iPhone 7 sales, so just on the expected LIP battery failure rate, there should be two. Look for at least one more. — PING!

Thanks to Mark17 for the heads and Shanghai Dan for posting the article.

Could it be the number 7 that causes fires?
Ping!

The latest Apple/Mac/iOS Pings can be found by searching Keyword "ApplePingList" on FreeRepublic's Search.

If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me

[Swordmaker]

Thanks for the ping.

[Swordmaker]

Here's photo to the external shipping packing box showing it received damage prior to any damage caused by anything the iPhone may have caused by overheating.

Source: Reddit

And here is matching damage on the iPhone's box, which looks as if something heavy hit it after penetrating the packing box.

Source: Reddit

[Squeako]

Looks like someone tried to add a 3.5mm headphone jack with an ax while it was still in the box.

[Swordmaker]

My Note 7 hasn’t exploded yet.

Give it time:

Samsung phone (Galaxy S7 Edge) sparks house fire in Painesville, family warns phone users

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

An Apple iPhone 7 has been found to have over heated and/or caught fire during shipping to its purchaser. BGR reports "All joking aside — and before other sites catch wind of this story and go crazy with it — this clearly appears to be an isolated incident, at least for the time being" . . . but it is worrisome. It is known that Lithium Ion Polymer batteries have a failure rate of approximately 1 in 6,000,000 in this fashion, and estimates are Apple sold more than 12 million in the first weekend of iPhone 7 sales, so just on the expected LIP battery failure rate, there should be two. Look for at least one more. — PING!

This isn’t the space program, in which the loss of one life was considered unacceptable because of the PR implications; this is real life. In real life, people get killed just driving to the store to buy a phone at a very low - but nonzero - rate. You would like to think that failures “in this fashion” would usually not have fatal, or even egregious, consequences. Maybe yes, maybe no . . .

I would suggest that people be informed of this risk - “informed consent” and all that - but in reality that is not in the cards. It is well-known that people overreact to low probabilities - e.g., people pay good money for bad (i.e., impossibly long odds against a payoff) lottery tickets all the time. And we have an entire, very influential, industry - journalism - which is pretty much exclusively dedicated to provoking public overreaction.

[Sawdring]

That was an S7, not a Note.

[Swordmaker]

That was an S7, not a Note.

I know. Allow me to quote my post's link: "Samsung phone (Galaxy S7 Edge) sparks house fire in Painesville, family warns phone users". It's not the first or only the S7 Edge. There have also been fires associated with just the S7 and with the S7 Core.