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Lawsuit Claims Swollen Apple Watch Batteries Can Lead to 'Substantial Personal Injury'
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Hold on, your saying that a MR editor changed the sentence to the latter? If that is the case then MR needs to explain why the post does not show 'Edited....' so viewers can see that something in the post was edited.
You can use it as shark deterrent, use the detached screen to slice the shark lol
Spicy pillow is a risk with any lithium battery. Did the case get forced open while the wearer had it on? That' would be some brown trowsers times. If it's already open before the wearer puts it on, then Darwin recipient and his lawyer trying to pull a fast one on Apple. If the battery has swollen up enough to crack the case, you tempting fate by continuing to wear the watch.
I had my Apple Watch Series 3 for years now, and had no swollen battery issues. I even brought into the pool and ocean.
Without the ad revenue, the website doesn’t have the money to run, so while mildly annoying, it is a necessary evil. I don’t think that the article is written specifically to do the thing you propose it is, but I think that it is written with the target audience in mind. I don’t think it is unreasonable for a website that is based on discussion to have articles written in a manner that sparks discussion. This is not, say cnn or npr whose number 1 goal is to inform and there are also comment sections, I think the article is the start of the conversation. But I also don’t think it is necessarily “clickbait”
Not really. Plaintiffs seeking certification of a class are required to satisfy a "numerosity" requirement before the class can be certified (among many other requirements). These guys won't be able to get very far unless they can actually demonstrate that a large number of individuals were injured by the issue alleged. They won't be able to, so they either are extremely poor attorneys or they are simply hoping for a nuisance-value settlement before the case is dismissed or the court rules that there is no class to be certified.
A friend of mine has had the same Samsung Watch for years and I thought it was cool. Made me think of getting an Apple Watch.
I wouldn't say Samsung Watches are bad.
No, no device is designed to "explode", but you can integrate an "intended beaking point" in case of...
A screen popping of appears to me an acceptable emergency exit. Melting down towards your arm might be less desirable.
"Severely sliced", seriously? Can it decapitate people too?
I'm not an Apple zealot and will side against them where it makes sense to but this is just silly. By this reasoning glass is an excessively dangerous substance that shouldn't be found in any product.
Glad the device is actually coming apart rather than catching fire when this happens, given it's designed to be on people's wrists. It's a shame we can't make safer battery tech.
So Chris Smith reached down from the golf cart steering wheel whilst driving, to pop the screen back in, am I reading that right?
If he fell out of the golf cart for no reason would he sue himself?
If he fell out of the golf cart for no reason would he sue himself?
Umm, yeah, because a few anecdotal stories are indicative of the overall quality of a product.
Hate to tell you this, but there's no such thing as a mass produced product with a 0% failure rate. I don't care how much you spend on it.
I’m pretty sure that people’s desires to get their hands on some sweet sweet Apple cash is going to have them jumping in front of Apple cars when they ship.
I've just filed a class action lawsuit against Apple, too, for knowingly allowing victimized customers to intentionally file class action lawsuits against said company whenever they personally experience anything negative and positioning the suit such that said company knowing allowed such defects to be sold in the marketplace to unsuspecting consumers. /s
The wording and exaggeration in these suits makes me feel sad for the human race.
The wording and exaggeration in these suits makes me feel sad for the human race.
All batteries from china are crappy, I thought everyone knew that already. At least 2 big jets, 747 and something else brought down by crappy lithium's
Think one step more. Imaging you wake up in the morning and look down to your swollen watch and broke screen. Then you look at your wrist and fingers…
I was not suggesting that, if I were in the Android system, I'd probably have one.
just that the poster I was responding to seems to be posting rather negative comments about Apple and apple products in general so I was encouraging him/her to give a a product review - and I am not naive enough to believe that would happen
I went to an Apple Store with my Series 0 where the screen popped out from the battery swelling, it was no longer under warranty so they told me I needed to get a new phone and did not offer any other solution or discount.
I agree, my screen popped off while my Apple Watch Series 0 was charging over night, it could have been a fire hazard though as the watch was hot as hell when I removed it from the Apple Charger