Apple ordered to make public iPod nano battery fix in Japan
By Darren Murph 
posted August 6th 2010 8:51AM
posted August 6th 2010 8:51AM
posted August 6th 2010 8:51AM
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That pic's from Cracked!
@rgz175
or so I think..
@rgz175 They took it from us. But it's cool, we're still friends.
@rgz175
They were holding it wrong.
@rgz175
If your battery explodes and burns your users ... you blew it.
@rgz175
Ha! I thought it was Brad Pitt.
It's nothing new for Apple really - a lot of their products, especially their laptops, have had bad overheating problems. My only concern is that terrorists might hear about this and start stockpiling iPod Nanos as weapons of mass destruction...
@rgz175
OK, I see where this is going ...
FREE fireproof insulation cases for everyone! Yeah!
@Why should I have all the fun
well nope, if the battery blew.. DUH! xD
@rgz175 - as stated below, the movie here would be Fight Club.
@Why should I have all the fun Everyone knows Apple doesn't make faulty products. Steve Jobs puts his special magic touch into every single product his company creates. This is a conspiracy.
@rgz175
the first rule of exploding apple products is you do not talk about exploding apple products.
Steve jobs: Look guys, everybodys batteries explode...
@Andronicus You're charging it wrong.
@Andronicus
Those aren't "explosions". They're magical pyrotechnics. It's a feature. You people are so ungrateful.
@Andronicus When batteries explode, you blew it!
@Why should I have all the fun
It's Apple's version of flash.
@Andronicus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUH3JQjcweM
@breno
Apple introduces FlashBang(tm), an exiting and magical way to stimulate all your senses and leave you breathless!
Simply insert the supplied charger into your iPod Nano's 30-pin dock connector, and feel the rush as your battery lights up!
Feel: the white heat from your Li-ion going critical!
See: nothing for several minutes while your corneas reset!
Hear: all your favorite songs just as soon as you buy a new iPod!
Taste: humliation when we laugh at your piddly lawsuit!
@Why should I have all the fun
Look at the Sansa: if you deplete the battery it's loses charge and shuts off. (i.e. hold it like you're crushing it with 5g's).
Look at the Phillips MP3 player: if you play it for 20hrs, it dies. (i.e. hold it with vise grips)
Look at the Sony Walkman: heat it up in a microwave and it dies, well melts. (i.e. put it in a sound proof room, with *no* headphones, and no songs on it, and then hold it with vise grips).
2yrs? Hmmm, same M.O., no new news here, please move along.
@brenro FTW
@Andronicus
Demonstrates explosion of other products after giant man brings sledgehammer and TNT and shows realistic test. Numerous Slides follow. Drones clap. Leave the auditorium single file procession, chanting Om !
@Andronicus
This is what the engadget comment section has been reduced to.
*turns comments off*
Gizmodo sorry.
Probably should get to reading the actual story now.
That's Tyler Durden from Fightclub...
@bakkermaarten007
captain obvious strikes again
@SirDubs Looking at the comments above me, captain obvious was quite necessary...
@bakkermaarten007
i couldn't place who it was.
Does Apple sell that well in Japan? I was under the impression that the Japanese market was rather difficult for American companies.
@booch
They put Hello Kitty stickers on them!
@booch
Yeah, remember at Google I/O when Howard Stringer said they 'Dominated in Japan' with their Sony ericsson phones? Then said "When you beat Apple, you dominate" - so of course, that gives a bit of a insight as to what the Japanese buy, as apparently iPhone's are being beaten out by Sony over there.
@Wokis They actually have been in the UK - http://www.bitterwallet.com/gold-plated-lampard-ipods-to-become-hello-kitty-ipods-instead/32731
@booch I was just in Japan. While the iphone is nowhere near as ubiquitous as in the US, it's getting really popular. The Apple store was PACKED for the new iphone4. And some American companies do well in Japan... just not crap ones.
@booch
that is why there are only 4 claimants in the lawsuit. All four sold in Japan blew it.
Too bad you can't just swap the battery out yourself like you can on any other electronic device.
@ummhello How would that be elite-niche...
@ummhello Funny, considering pretty much any portable audio device today have built-in batteries too.
i thought 2010 is the year of the tiger,...
anyways, it could be the year of the aPple though judging from its recent mis/fortune..
Lets look at the larger picture:
They acknowledge and replace Time Capsule problems 2 years after the problem occurs...
They look set to start acting on Nano problems 2 years after the problem first occurs...
So we can expect a proper iPhone 4 fix mid-2012! You read it here first!
@Optimaximal
Don't forget Dell recalled the Sony laptops batteries months before Apple...
and remember how long it took for Apple to acknowledge the nVidia graphic blowout
The first rule of Apple...you do not talk about stuff that ignites...second rule of Apple...
The battery manufacturer is probably based in Japan. Kamikaze!!
Wait but Apple is perfect so it must be the users fault haha
Its magical. It has the smoke. We just forgot to include the mirrors. But fret not APPLE LOVERS - its available as a $30 accessory from our store.
We love to play you like an iTune
lol you guys crack me up!
Here's one that will piss off Apple fan boys more than a forced battery recall...
http://www.styrofoamsoup.com/tech/10-things-android-does-better-than-iphone-os/
Apple sucks.
Well, this indicates that more Japanese are using Apple products. Heck, the whole Japanese government are using Macbook pros, at least in Bloody Monday... :D
I really wonder how many first gen nanos are actually in use today in japan.
Except for toyota this is why i love japanese business culture ....safety first no matter what!!