It was only like 35 cases for Samsung to issue their first recall. Does Apple really need to be THAT company that thinks swelling batteries is normal at all?
I mean companies used to claim that if you have under 10 broken pixels on a phone display that was acceptable amount of defect, nowadays getting one damaged pixel on a phone is cause for immediate replacement. If consumers just accept this as "normal", the industry will not change.
Why is ANY kind of battery defect tolerated when these Li-Ion batteries ALL have the penchant to cause catastrophic failure that could cause harm or even death. When one is swollen it is already in a compromised state, it won't take much more stress before something worse can happen then popping off the screen. What happens when these iPhone 8's in consumers hands start flying around the world or sitting in hot cars then put in someones back pocket?
The whole industry (and apparently consumers here) are being too flippant about all this; Samsung paid a huge price for lax quality standards, but its time for all these mega-billion dollar companies including Apple to focus on true next gen solutions for energy storage and stop using something that is obviously a continuing issue that plagues the mobile device industry. Li-Ion is old and problematic and nobody is bothering to find something better. Why cut into profit margins using old ****** technology instead of investing it to protect customers?
Saying this is not a big issue because its 5 our of millions shipped is not good enough for Apple. Apple should, of all companies, be focused on introducing new safer battery technology instead of grabbing off the shelf components and then shrugging their shoulder's when they happen to fail, and using the same parts in the next generation of product with the same expectations.
$800+ for a phone, I expect better, period.
