So what are you saying this article is a bunch of malarky or will you admit Apple screwed up big time. The Foreman Grill probably doesn’t get this hot /s
Big time? I don't think that is the case.
There apparently are a few white iPhone 3GS units that are discoloring (It may be that some black units are as well but black can't get any darker). How many remains to be seen. However, there were over 1,000,000 sold and only a few users are reporting this problem. Many others are claiming no problems. How many are overheating and discoloring? I have no idea.
Hypothetically, if even 1% are defective—a totally acceptable percentage of defective units in any manufacturing process—then that's 10,000 units. Many of the owners of those units are going to complain. The owners who do not have a problem aren't going be heard from. Being an Apple product, the tech pundits will jump on the reports because they somehow expect Apple products to be "perfect."
I recall a tempest in a teapot several years ago about new white iBooks batteries overheating. Reports were rife around the internet. A lot of FUD was spread. Apple recalled 28,000 iBook batteries (all made by Sony who picked up the tab for their defective batteries). When all was said and done, it turned out that the actual number of overheating iBooks was six. That's right six reported over heated iBooks... and none caught fire. None-the-less, Apple recalled and replaced 28,000 batteries.
There was one unrelated iBook—from another model and year—that caught fire, but that one was left charging and running on a shag rug which blocked the cooling vents for several hours before igniting.
Incidentally, HP and Dell, between them, recalled 280,000 batteries from the same series of internal cells that were recalled by Apple... but the news media hardly mentioned those, trumpeting instead the 28,000 recalled by Apple. I wonder why.
Consider this research into the iPhone 3GS "overheating problem" done by IT ChannelWeb. Their conclusion:
Searches of a host of Apple-focused Web forums prove otherwise. There are a few threads here and there touching on overheating, but not enough to consider it a rampant problem. Meanwhile, Wired reported that the overheating issue affects only a "small number" of iPhone 3G S smartphones.A search of Twitter also uncovered few, if any, iPhone 3G S users complaining about overheating. Instead, the search returned a host of journalists and bloggers seeking iPhone users with overheating iPhones. But those users aren't there.
Right now, it's still too soon to tell if the iPhone overheating is a limited or isolated problem or if it will be widespread and prompt a recall. But as it stands it appears the issue is being overblown.
If it were a widespread problem, then Twitter and iPhone forums would be filled with complaints. They aren't.
Yet more personal attacks? I have never read Swordmaker denying when Apple has made a mistake.
Remember a few years back when Apple recalled a bunch of laptop batteries? Yep - no-one here denied the defective batteries. Of course, Apple did not manufacture the defective cells - SONY did. But that’s ok, Apple too responsibility for it and did a giant recall.
IN this case - maybe the battery design and capacity are not to blame, but the battery manufacturer. Or the plant that actually assembled the new phones had a run of bad ones, or there are a number of other possibilities. I have little doubt if this pans out to be a legitimate problem, that Apple will take care of them.