Beats Pill XL
Posted on 06/03/2015 8:36:40 AM PDT by Swordmaker
The recall involves all five colours of the Beats Pill XL Speaker system Apple is urging owners of one of its Beats loud speaker systems to stop using the kit because it poses a fire risk.
The firm says owners of the Beats Pill XL should return the product because its battery can overheat.
More than 230,000 units have been sold in North America alone since they went on sale last year - the recall is worldwide.
At least one person has been injured by a defective unit.
"Apple has received eight reports of incidents of the speakers overheating, including one with a burn to a consumer's finger and one with damage to a consumer's desk," reported the US Consumer Product Safety Commission in a statement.
Beats' website now lists the speaker system as being "out of stock" The firm is offering to send a box to customers to return the product if they complete a web form.
Apple sold the speakers for £269.95 ($429 US — Swordmaker) from its own site.
It is offering Apple Store credit or an electronic payment of £215 ($341US — Swordmaker) in compensation to anyone who returns the item.
However, it will reimburse customers the full price they paid if they provide a receipt or other proof of purchase.
Apple paid $3bn (£2bn) to buy Beats Electronics, the speaker's manufacturer, and Beats Music, its subscription streaming music service, a year ago.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
Beats stole the crown from Bose as the largest advertising company who happens to make speakers.
Actually, Apple has not had fires that were related to their products. Some Sony batteries in various make laptops were recalled in the early 1990s, resulting in a recall of some of Apple's batteries. . . 32,000 of Apple's batteries were recalled due to overheating, but no fires were ever reported. Over 300,000 batteries were recalled due to over heating of the same Sony internal batteries from other make laptops in the same period for HP, Sony, IBM and the make laptops, but the headlines all featured the far smaller Apple recall.
A fire in an iPhone last year was traced to a 3rd party charger that did not have the correct Apple circuitry. . . which allowed a full 220 volts into the phone.
Even the failure rate on this recall is 0.00000034% of the number sold. That's an extremely low risk factor. Frankly, I am very surprised that Apple is doing a recall on such a low number of failures. There has to be something more to it. . . they must know that there will be a lot more in the future due to some severe problem with the manufacturer of the batteries.
Chinese garbage....
Just like when they pay him those insane amounts of money for that absolute garbage he does.
If those things are powered by lithium batteries, it’s a wonder they didn’t set someone’s house on fire.
It does sound great, though. Before buying I read tons of reviews, pros and customers, and compared it myself at BB to the main competitors.
Its main competition appears to be:
Bose SoundLink Bluetooth Speaker III
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/bose-soundlink-bluetooth-speaker-iii-silver-black/3202003.p?id=1219089114355&skuId=3202003
and
Jawbone: Big Jambox - Portable Bluetooth Speaker
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/search?Ntt=jawbone+big+jambox&N=0&InitialSearch=yes&sts=ps
#11 doesn’t that bar in front of the speaker hinder the sound?
That is where the bass speaker is. Tweeter and mid-range on opposite side. So not really.
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