We apologize for the blurriness of the image -- imagine you are looking through the photographer's tears -- but what you see before you is supposedly an esploded
iPod touch. Tipster Max S. tells us he had the pleasurable experience of having his touch catch on fire between the glass and the components, which can't have been a fun time for the iPod. The heat managed to burn his desk, and needless to say Max won't be getting any more use out of the thing. Apple has been kind enough to issue a free replacement, and is apparently going to look into the situation to see how much of an anomaly this is. This is of course "hot" on the heels of that iPod nano incident, and while an exploding iPod situation would be bad enough for Apple and consumers, what we're really not looking forward to is the inevitable
DOT ban on PMPs. Let's hope these are some isolated incidents, or Apple pays off the right people to hush up about it. There's another blurry shot after the break.
Update: Max wrote back to tell us that Steve Jobs' personal staff is apparently in touch with him after Max emailed Apple about the incident. Supposedly he might be getting some compensation for the ordeal, but doesn't seem quite as chipper about the ordeal as his first email suggested: "Still, my iPod burned. *sad face*" You gotta keep it together, Max!
Update 2: Apple gave Max a £25 (about $50 US) gift certificate to the Apple Store in addition to the replacement he already got for the iPod touch. Is that the happy ending to this sordid tale of destruction and woe?
posted March 12th 2008 8:25PM
Same thing happened to me, I got 2 burned fingers and the top of my ipod touch burnt and melted. I will link to some pictures soon
My iPod Touch not only burned off all of my fingers, it then went beserk and spewed flames over six of my friends, many of whom died or are now permanently hairless. Then it exploded and the planet Earth was no more.
it's photoshoped, because the pictures portret and landscape down have the "burnspot" the same size.
No it isn't.
esploded? Paul, you are the worst blogger on Engadget. How about learning to spell a word correctly? After that, maybe you can look it up in a dictionary and see what it really means. Here, I'll help you this first time:
explode (ĭk-splōd')
v. intr.
1. To release mechanical, chemical, or nuclear energy by the sudden production of gases in a confined space.
2. To burst violently as a result of internal pressure.
3. To shatter with a loud noise.
looks like an iphone knockoff to me again!!
why cant engadget not put up stuff that is not an iphone knockoff.. sigh!!
It isn't a knock off, I just have a crap camera. :(
or this guy "Max" didn't know the "flower icon" on the camera that makes close-ups clear.
I can see Jobs singing this at the annual quarterly SDK apple annoucnement for other useless pieces of information that could be sent out by press releases...
" We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the ipod's been selling
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we sure didnt try to fight it"
Hmmm... this is what the LCD monitors out on the shelves of Best Buy look like when I press on the screen really hard
Coincidence?
That sucks. I hope mine does not esplode into an iTorch.
apple just hands out gift cards as if nothing ever happened to solve customer problems, remember the $100 gift card for the iPhone?
ah I think the kid took a lighter to it... I use my iPod Touch for hours on end and it hardly warms up... If he's not lying however... I apologize