Apple tried to silence owner of exploding iPod with gagging order

[Gazz]

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.
The Times has learnt that the company would offer the family a full refund only if they were willing to sign a settlement form. The proposed agreement left them open to legal action if they ever disclosed the terms of the settlement.
The case echoes previous circumstances in which Apple attempted to hush up incidents when its devices overheated.
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”.

Source (contains even more info for those interested): Apple tried to silence owner of exploding iPod with gagging order - Times Online





I am always amazed why people buy their inferiour crap, when the competition has way better products.

[Chevalr1c]

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.
The Times has learnt that the company would offer the family a full refund only if they were willing to sign a settlement form. The proposed agreement left them open to legal action if they ever disclosed the terms of the settlement.
The case echoes previous circumstances in which Apple attempted to hush up incidents when its devices overheated.
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”.

That's what you get when puting in non-original "brandless" batteries that promise longer battery life. ;)

Serious again: certain Sony music players of the walkman series are said to be better. Play .wma for sure and maybe even OGG Vorbis (both better than that LAME (is an acronym) and Fraunhofer IIS crap codecs (.mp3)).

[Gazz]

I personally own a Creative Zen as a mp3 player. Anyway, it's not hard to surpass the Ipod as an mp3 player, since it is pretty bad at what it does. It (the Ipod) just has a better perception value then any other player from the competition.

As far as I am concerned most people I know in the gym that own an ipod can keep it close to their balls and I'll have fun watching it explode then

[RaiZen18]

I will never own an Ipod, becuase they over priced and are more of a pain than anything else cause they have to be fat 32 etc etc... I just my fone to listen to music... but I really would only use the Ipod as an extrenal hdd so I would just go for an external hdd... cheaper and bigger ( capacity wise)

[KamisoriX]

lol, i just strapped 10 ipods around ma sexy body and gonna go jihad on all of ya asses.

i gonna go into history as the most stylish and expensive pop culture suicide bomber ever. now all i need to do is picking a theme song.

[Gazz]

lol, i just strapped 10 ipods around ma sexy body and gonna go jihad on all of ya asses.

i gonna go into history as the most stylish and expensive pop culture suicide bomber ever. now all i need to do is picking a theme song.

The revenge of the nerds theme song would seem fitting

[Slaymate]

Ipod is a good media player and one off case doesn't make the brand unworthy of the fame it has got but the gagging order was so unlike Apple.

HaHaHa, so unlike Apple. That's exactly like Apple.

[toprat]

I am anti-proprietary for almost everything tech related because it reduces competition and keeps the people who buy it(apple) products 2-steps behind the rest of the tech world. However, on a positive note, apple has a look. As faggety as it may be, they have managed to raise an entire generation of latch-key consumers; who, from the Apple 2's ridiculous price of 2.3grand in the 70s to the MacAir's 1.5grand price (when all it will ever be is an over glorified net-book) and eePCs sell for 275ish, they must be doing something right, *(marketing).

I just can't believe how ignorant people are, form over function, and I cant understand why some one would want an unmanageable substandard enema, with a dildo smooth exterior as a personal computer, I never have, and never will.

/end-rant

Sorry i lost my train of thought, what were we talking about?

[Gazz]

Just put a high pricetag and the name Apple on it and it will sell no matter what the quality really is. Surely there are better (and more then often cheaper) products availible, but the hip wannabees don't seem to be interested in that.

Anyway, you gave me an idea. Perhaps I should make a MP3 player shaped like a dildo and put the name GAZZ on it and sell it for 250 dollars a piece (that's a big piece btw). Women can use it to penetrate themselves and listen to some sweet tunes all at once.

[toprat]

LOL sounds like a plan. it can vibrate like a sub-woofer. XD