Apple Tries To Gag Owner of Exploding iPod 475
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from the streisand-this dept.
from the streisand-this dept.
David Gerard writes "The Times in London reports that Apple attempted to silence a father and daughter with a gagging order after the child's iPod music player exploded and the family sought a refund from the company. Well, at least they're not Microsoft. Or something."
Exploding ipod? Don't worry! (Score:5, Funny)
It's not a bug, it's a feature!
What was that diturbance in the Force? (Score:5, Funny)
Well, at least they're not Microsoft. Or something.
It's as if a billion Fanboys all cried out at once.
Picture (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Exploding ipod? Don't worry! (Score:5, Funny)
Apple is going for the middle eastern fundamentalist market then?
Re:Exploding ipod? Don't worry! (Score:5, Funny)
It's not a bug, it's a feature!
There's an app for that
Re:Picture (Score:5, Funny)
I take it you never been to England then?
make-up seems to be compulsory part of the school uniform from the age of 8 upwards
I welcome anything that takes your eyes off their teeth.
Re:iDiots... (Score:5, Funny)
And what do you propose to do with all those corporate lawyers if companies simply acted sensibly and didn't default to litigation for everything? The unemployment rate is already sky-high, we don't need a wave of unemployable, irritable suits hitting the streets.
Re:Surprises me this doesn't happen more often (Score:3, Funny)
Woud throwing the device containing it out the back door suffice?
Re:Exploding ipod? Don't worry! (Score:1, Funny)
Its Apple's new product... the iHandgrenade...
Re:Picture (Score:2, Funny)
This thread carries the Pedobear Seal of Approval.
Re:Exploding ipod? Don't worry! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Exploding ipod? Don't worry! (Score:5, Funny)
You need to jailbreak the phone to install it though. Apple rejected it from the iTunes store because it duplicated their native functionality.
Re:The moral of the story (Score:2, Funny)
Moral: while it is cheaper, don't buy your iPod in Irak ...
Probably shouldn't buy an atlas or a globe there either.....
Re:Exploding ipod? Don't worry! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Exploding ipod? Don't worry! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Surprises me this doesn't happen more often (Score:3, Funny)
Crunch it the wrong way and you get an internal short and a runaway reaction, which produces a lot of gas
Reminds me of that chalupa I had at Taco Bell last week.
Re:Exploding ipod? Don't worry! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Exploding ipod? Don't worry! (Score:5, Funny)
It Just Explodes.
Apple may not have been the first to do this, but they were the ones who popularised it. They also make it easy: no need for complex buttons to press, Apple have pioneered the "open-hand" gesture, which causes the device to drop, and initiate destruction after a short time period.
Other products may win out on paper in terms of pure feature lists, but it's the attention to little details, such as the seamless integration of a music player and a product that blows up in your face.
Re:Picture (Score:4, Funny)
I think Homer put the make-up shotgun on 'whore'.
Re:What was that diturbance in the Force? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:It turned me into a newt! (Score:4, Funny)
Oddly, one of my desired specs for any product is "can use without vomiting slightly".
Re:Exploding ipod? Don't worry! (Score:3, Funny)
Until three shall you count, and the number of your count shall be three...
Ref: The Hand Grenade of Antioch [youtube.com]
Re:Exploding ipod? Don't worry! (Score:2, Funny)
No. Definitely iNcendiary.
Apple's declining quality (Score:5, Funny)
Re:It turned me into a newt! (Score:5, Funny)
I've had the opposite experience, personally...
You bought something from Apple and it didn't burst into flame and/or explode?
Re:Exploding ipod? Don't worry! (Score:3, Funny)
You can clean up afterward with their new vacuum; the iSuck.
Re:It turned me into a newt! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Exploding ipod? Don't worry! (Score:3, Funny)
Until three shall you count, and the number of your count shall be three...
Ref: The Hand Grenade of Antioch [youtube.com]
We are the knights who... oh God, I'm so sorry,
So sorry, the car just came too fast and
She was right there and I saw her and then it was a blur and so much
I ran to help didn't know what she wasn't moving I'm so sorry...
Anyway, yeah, Knights who say "Ni."
Re:It turned me into a newt! (Score:3, Funny)
I still hold by my original statement, I expect Syrup of Ipecac to make me vomit profusely.
Re:Exploding ipod? Don't worry! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Exploding ipod? Don't worry! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Exploding ipod? Don't worry! (Score:3, Funny)
Good news: your female request has been approved. She's 20 years old and 139 pounds.
Bad news: The weight is in hex.
Re:Surprises me this doesn't happen more often (Score:3, Funny)
That bottle of water is dangerous, I tell you! Have you not heard of the dangers of Dihydrogen monoxide [dhmo.org]? Besides, you could splash it in the pilot's eyes. Then, while he's temporarily blinded, he could push forward on the controls sending the plane into a death spiral. We must ban all water bottles on airplanes! Won't someone think of the pilots' eyes?!!!
Re:Picture (Score:2, Funny)
You insensitive clod! Now I have to read the article.
Re:iDiots... (Score:3, Funny)
"And what do you propose to do with all those corporate lawyers"
Target practice.