http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/03/exploding-ipod-blows-up-in-apples-face/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/03/exploding-ipod-blows-up-in-apples-face/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/03/exploding-ipod-blows-up-in-apples-face/Aug 3rd 2009 2:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/03/exploding-ipod-blows-up-in-apples-face/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/03/exploding-ipod-blows-up-in-apples-face/Aug 3rd 2009 2:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/03/exploding-ipod-blows-up-in-apples-face/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/03/exploding-ipod-blows-up-in-apples-face/Aug 3rd 2009 2:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/03/exploding-ipod-blows-up-in-apples-face/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/03/exploding-ipod-blows-up-in-apples-face/how lame Engadget
]]>Aug 3rd 2009 2:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/03/exploding-ipod-blows-up-in-apples-face/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/03/exploding-ipod-blows-up-in-apples-face/Lame !]]>Aug 3rd 2009 2:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/03/exploding-ipod-blows-up-in-apples-face/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/03/exploding-ipod-blows-up-in-apples-face/Aug 3rd 2009 2:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/03/exploding-ipod-blows-up-in-apples-face/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/03/exploding-ipod-blows-up-in-apples-face/Aug 3rd 2009 2:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/03/exploding-ipod-blows-up-in-apples-face/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/03/exploding-ipod-blows-up-in-apples-face/Aug 3rd 2009 2:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/03/exploding-ipod-blows-up-in-apples-face/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/03/exploding-ipod-blows-up-in-apples-face/Aug 3rd 2009 2:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/03/exploding-ipod-blows-up-in-apples-face/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/03/exploding-ipod-blows-up-in-apples-face/Aug 3rd 2009 3:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/03/exploding-ipod-blows-up-in-apples-face/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/03/exploding-ipod-blows-up-in-apples-face/
Stock price isn't affected because, despite what the media wants you to believe, this isn't that big a deal. Every product will have defective units shipped; no manufacturing process has a 0% failure rate. As Engadget noted, because Apple ships so many of these, there are bound to be more defects in iPods than anything else, and because Apple stories tend to get more attention than others, the likelihood of these defects being reported is higher. Investors don't care because it's not going to affect the bottom line.]]>Aug 3rd 2009 3:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/03/exploding-ipod-blows-up-in-apples-face/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/03/exploding-ipod-blows-up-in-apples-face/Aug 3rd 2009 5:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/03/exploding-ipod-blows-up-in-apples-face/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/03/exploding-ipod-blows-up-in-apples-face/Aug 3rd 2009 6:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/03/exploding-ipod-blows-up-in-apples-face/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/03/exploding-ipod-blows-up-in-apples-face/If that was the case, the high volume of Windows and its "security" flaws would be ignored and Microsoft's stock would be going up as well. Ratio-wise, it's no different from other systems out there.

It's not hit because Apple's a "hot commodity" and looked at as the very definition of "hip" to this generation.]]>Aug 3rd 2009 8:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/03/exploding-ipod-blows-up-in-apples-face/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/03/exploding-ipod-blows-up-in-apples-face/
Microsoft's stock isn't going up because Microsoft isn't offering much to the investment community. Earnings are down for the first time in history. Microsoft is being faced with increased competition on all fronts, including Windows and Office. Vista flopped. Consumers don't generally hold its brand in high regard. Its only profitable businesses are Windows and Office; everything else relies on these two to be profitable.

Maybe it'll go up if Windows 7 sells well; maybe it won't. There are a lot of factors that affect stock price, far more than we can imagine. That's basically why I was saying Apple's stock isn't going down because a statistically insignificant percentage of iPods were defective and got a disproportionate amount of media attention.]]>Aug 4th 2009 10:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/03/exploding-ipod-blows-up-in-apples-face/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/03/exploding-ipod-blows-up-in-apples-face/
Is this Microsoft getting a jump on the Windows 7 launch by spiking the web with Apple Haterade?

Not that I don't find it kinda fun to jump on the bandwagon!]]>Aug 3rd 2009 2:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/03/exploding-ipod-blows-up-in-apples-face/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/03/exploding-ipod-blows-up-in-apples-face/
I wonder if the legal letter mentioned how the other apple guy committed "suicide" after being tortured.

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Yet batteries explode, Apple gets lawsuits, Apple's the target of an FCC investigation, it loses not just a board member but the board member who's a CEO of a company that they're publicly friendly with... Bad karma anyone???

But OH YEAH THAT'S RIGHT - their stock keeps going through the roof!!! In fact it's about to hit 170 and soon it'll be at $200/share again and it will break Apple's all-time record again even though we're still in a recession??

(is it just me or did hell freeze over)]]>Aug 3rd 2009 11:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/03/exploding-ipod-blows-up-in-apples-face/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/03/exploding-ipod-blows-up-in-apples-face/Aug 3rd 2009 2:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/03/exploding-ipod-blows-up-in-apples-face/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/03/exploding-ipod-blows-up-in-apples-face/Aug 3rd 2009 2:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/03/exploding-ipod-blows-up-in-apples-face/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/03/exploding-ipod-blows-up-in-apples-face/Aug 3rd 2009 2:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/03/exploding-ipod-blows-up-in-apples-face/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/03/exploding-ipod-blows-up-in-apples-face/
Even for explosives.

You know, because those are supposed to ALWAYS explode, not only occasionally.]]>Aug 3rd 2009 2:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/03/exploding-ipod-blows-up-in-apples-face/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/03/exploding-ipod-blows-up-in-apples-face/Aug 3rd 2009 2:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/03/exploding-ipod-blows-up-in-apples-face/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/03/exploding-ipod-blows-up-in-apples-face/
The original description from Times

"Ken Stanborough, 47, from Liverpool, dropped his 11-year-old daughter Ellie’s iPod Touch last month. “It made a hissing noise,” he said. “I could feel it getting hotter in my hand, and I thought I could see vapour”. Mr Stanborough said he threw the device out of his back door, where “within 30 seconds there was a pop, a big puff of smoke and it went 10ft in the air”."

http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/personal_tech/article6736587.ece]]>Aug 3rd 2009 3:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/03/exploding-ipod-blows-up-in-apples-face/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/03/exploding-ipod-blows-up-in-apples-face/Aug 3rd 2009 6:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/03/exploding-ipod-blows-up-in-apples-face/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/03/exploding-ipod-blows-up-in-apples-face/Aug 3rd 2009 2:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/03/exploding-ipod-blows-up-in-apples-face/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/03/exploding-ipod-blows-up-in-apples-face/
Let's look at that sentence: "also obvious" qualify that phrase please and "means" equals a very weak word.
"Until Liverpool itself goes bankrupt." Cute. You need to get a book on urban myths and the hysteria of the masses. Problems? Probably, but because of the sheer numbers involved, meaning sales, its truly obvious that the product as designed is beyond safe. Even that woman from Seattle, despite being burned by an IPod, (she claims) lets her children, five of them, go to bed with with IPods.

Look, let me help you here. You're obviously trying to ride a story that has already been created. How about doing some research instead of repeating things that are already in the press? Cal Apple for god's sake! Have you done that?

No, of course not, you're an intern. ]]>Aug 3rd 2009 2:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/03/exploding-ipod-blows-up-in-apples-face/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/03/exploding-ipod-blows-up-in-apples-face/Aug 3rd 2009 2:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/03/exploding-ipod-blows-up-in-apples-face/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/03/exploding-ipod-blows-up-in-apples-face/
I think you need to look at that sentence again. ]]>Aug 3rd 2009 2:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/03/exploding-ipod-blows-up-in-apples-face/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/03/exploding-ipod-blows-up-in-apples-face/
Chill man. ]]>Aug 3rd 2009 2:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/03/exploding-ipod-blows-up-in-apples-face/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/03/exploding-ipod-blows-up-in-apples-face/Aug 3rd 2009 2:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/03/exploding-ipod-blows-up-in-apples-face/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/03/exploding-ipod-blows-up-in-apples-face/
I would be concerned about the language in the settlement agreement.]]>Aug 3rd 2009 2:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/03/exploding-ipod-blows-up-in-apples-face/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/03/exploding-ipod-blows-up-in-apples-face/Aug 3rd 2009 2:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/03/exploding-ipod-blows-up-in-apples-face/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/03/exploding-ipod-blows-up-in-apples-face/Aug 3rd 2009 2:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/03/exploding-ipod-blows-up-in-apples-face/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/03/exploding-ipod-blows-up-in-apples-face/
The fact that Apple would put wording like that in a confidentiality agreement should be disturbing to anyone.]]>Aug 3rd 2009 2:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/03/exploding-ipod-blows-up-in-apples-face/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/03/exploding-ipod-blows-up-in-apples-face/
I don't need to be worried because he isn't being compelled to sign it. If he accepts a free iPod to replace his (that he broke on his own), then he has to do something in return.

I personally probably wouldn't find the $250 iPod enough inducement to sign away my ability to talk about it, so I wouldn't sign it. If others want to make the opposite decision, it's not my place to criticize.]]>Aug 3rd 2009 2:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/03/exploding-ipod-blows-up-in-apples-face/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/03/exploding-ipod-blows-up-in-apples-face/Aug 3rd 2009 2:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/03/exploding-ipod-blows-up-in-apples-face/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/03/exploding-ipod-blows-up-in-apples-face/Aug 3rd 2009 2:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/03/exploding-ipod-blows-up-in-apples-face/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/03/exploding-ipod-blows-up-in-apples-face/Aug 3rd 2009 2:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/03/exploding-ipod-blows-up-in-apples-face/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/03/exploding-ipod-blows-up-in-apples-face/Aug 3rd 2009 4:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/03/exploding-ipod-blows-up-in-apples-face/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/03/exploding-ipod-blows-up-in-apples-face/
Why should there be a dead simple replacement system for people who abuse their iPods?

Seems like maybe engadget has some market dominance going on here, because they sure have the arrogance.]]>Aug 3rd 2009 2:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/03/exploding-ipod-blows-up-in-apples-face/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/03/exploding-ipod-blows-up-in-apples-face/Aug 3rd 2009 2:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/03/exploding-ipod-blows-up-in-apples-face/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/03/exploding-ipod-blows-up-in-apples-face/Aug 3rd 2009 2:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/03/exploding-ipod-blows-up-in-apples-face/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/03/exploding-ipod-blows-up-in-apples-face/
If $250 is enough of a loss to you that you would be tempted to sign away your ability to speak out to recover it, then you should learn to treat devices that are worth $250 better so you are less likely to end up in this conundrum.

Maybe part of the problem is people seem to think it's okay to spend what is to them a small fortune on a device that can be easily dropped, lost or stolen. Just because you can do so, doesn't mean it is wise to do so or that someone else should make your problem go away when it doesn't turn out so well for you.]]>Aug 3rd 2009 2:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/03/exploding-ipod-blows-up-in-apples-face/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/03/exploding-ipod-blows-up-in-apples-face/Aug 3rd 2009 2:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/03/exploding-ipod-blows-up-in-apples-face/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/03/exploding-ipod-blows-up-in-apples-face/Aug 3rd 2009 2:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/03/exploding-ipod-blows-up-in-apples-face/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/03/exploding-ipod-blows-up-in-apples-face/
You are totally missing the point. The iPod should not start BURNING just from being dropped. That should concern anyone. That family had every right to contact Apple about this incident.

Put your cynicism on break for a sec and look at the big picture.]]>Aug 3rd 2009 2:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/03/exploding-ipod-blows-up-in-apples-face/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/03/exploding-ipod-blows-up-in-apples-face/
Yes it's totally his fault that he dropped it...I think he's fine with the fact that it broke and could ACCEPT that. I think the part he couldn't accept was when it started hissing, smoking, heating up, which required him to get rid of it like a grenade...before it EXPLODED like a grenade.

But that's just me. If you're cool with your PMP exploding, or accepting that your PMP might explode, that's fine...Just not something I expect during the normal course of my day.]]>Aug 3rd 2009 2:59PM