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My iPhone Burned me!

bit_bucket said:
Don't do anything dishonest, that wont get you anywhere, but you should

1) Go to your doctor immediately and have it checked out and documented.
2) Stop using the iPhone and take it to the Genius Bar immediately.

I think it is high time for Americans and Europeans to stand up and say we are no longer going to accept this defective Wall-Mart style CRAP that is created in China. I have had 2 products in the last 3 months with explooding batteries, one of which sprayed the electrolyte on my child. Luckily we were able to nutralize the acid before more problems.

We are in an era where every big company is trying to make their products cheaper and cheaper, so they go to China. China manufacturing=FAIL. Every stinkin LiIon battery in the explooding battery problems of the past year is made in ...wait for it...China (ding ding ding). If they cant even be bothered to make their schools and buildings up to spec to not kill their own people, then how in the heck can we expect them to give a crap about us, the Capitalistic society (Their mortal enimy's). I miss the days of products coming out of HK. While there are ties to China, things were such better quality then.

You need to burn Apple on this. They owe you. What if you get cancer later on because of cell damage that you dont see now. It can happen. Send Apple the message that we do not accept their non-QA, QC crap. And for the love of God, at least have them replace your iPhone with a new one out of the box and not a replacement, refurb stock unit in a white box. I think that is the least they could do. Of course they are not going to care, so the suggestion to run in without an appointment and drop trou and scream may have more of an effect, or may provide more comedy for us here in the forums. If you decide to do that, please have a friend video tape it, as this would be really funny.

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Granted, we should keep the pressure on tech companies to prevent these kinds of problems and manage the quality of their products. But there is a flip side to your China rant. Without China's cheap labor, Apple simply wouldn't be able to crank out millions of iPhones at this rate and sell them for $200 a pop. Heck, without China, we'd probably all still be using cell phones the size of bricks, and paying $800 for them. We all seem to want our cake and eat it too.
 
I quickly pulled my iPhone out of my pocket this morning due to heat. It was asleep. I turned it off and the restarted. I have 3g, airport, fetch on @15. Also the camera was the last application i had running. I wonder if the sleep function doesn't fully shut down the camera app. I wasn't burned and the case didn't melt.
 
Not calling this fake, but 90% of the time i don't believe people that joined the same day and make this story.
 
AustinIphoner said:
maybe its just me, but i would be filing a lawsuit. just imagine if you didnt wake up. They owe you at least a couple grand for your pain and suffering. I suggest you rub your leg alot and make it worse. jk
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come on man. You are the second one in this thread to talk about a lawsuit. The guy just has a red leg and possibly a defective phone. There is no ground here for a lawsuit! If the thing would have burned his leg of or something then we would be talking lawsuit.

Just go to apple and replace the thing.

Sometimes you Americans amaze me with your hornyness towards litigation.
 
peterdevries said:
come on man. You are the second one in this thread to talk about a lawsuit. The guy just has a red leg and possibly a defective phone. There is no ground here for a lawsuit! If the thing would have burned his leg of or something then we would be talking lawsuit.

Just go to apple and replace the thing.

Sometimes you Americans amaze me with your hornyness towards litigation.
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Asking americans that is the same as asking Gordon Brown to smile - It aint gonna happen! :p BTW: His leg was burnt
 
Pixellated said:
Asking americans that is the same as asking Gordon Brown to smile - It aint gonna happen! :p BTW: His leg was burnt
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Hey... Don't lump all Americans into the same group... Some of us abhor all the frivolous lawsuits that go on in this country. The litigiousness of some Americans is definitely contributing to our decline. :mad:
 
Dude, I say you have a "lawsuit"!

I know I am not a first one...but seriously, everything is ground for lawsuit in America!
 
Everyone calling for a lawsuit just needs to cut it out - you're being completely ridiculous.

If this is legit, yes, I would contact Apple about getting a replacement. But a lawsuit? Come on, people.
 
Lord Blackadder said:
Everyone calling for a lawsuit just needs to cut it out - you're being completely ridiculous.

If this is legit, yes, I would contact Apple about getting a replacement. But a lawsuit? Come on, people.
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And it wasn't ridiculous to sue McDonalds for spilling Hot Coffee on oneself years ago? What happened in that case? Oh that's right the person got rich and now every cup of coffee has 'Caution HOT' on it as a result. This is very similar in nature if you ask me. I'm not for frivilous lawsuits but if he wanted to he could get some thing out of Apple in exchange for NOT suing...

People have sued for less and won...
 
LonginottiFilms said:
Amazingly...

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what app is this?
 
AustinSTI said:
And it wasn't ridiculous to sue McDonalds for spilling Hot Coffee on oneself years ago? What happened in that case? Oh that's right the person got rich and now every cup of coffee has 'Caution HOT' on it as a result. This is very similar in nature if you ask me. I'm not for frivilous lawsuits but if he wanted to he could get some thing out of Apple in exchange for NOT suing...

People have sued for less and won...
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Read up. McDonalds had the coffee basically scalding hot. Only a few degrees below boiling. Coffee is NEVER served this hot anywhere else. This is why they lost the lawsuit - not because the lady spilled coffee on herself. She also had severe burns, not the kind you get from spilling a regular pot of coffee on yourself.

This guy has a red leg. Big deal. To win a lawsuit you actually have to prove damages.
 
rhyx said:
Read up. McDonalds had the coffee basically scalding hot. Only a few degrees below boiling. Coffee is NEVER served this hot anywhere else. This is why they lost the lawsuit - not because the lady spilled coffee on herself. She also had severe burns, not the kind you get from spilling a regular pot of coffee on yourself.
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Precisely.

The woman in the McDonalds lawsuit was elderly first of all, and she needed skin grafts, for Petes sake! Second and third degree burns...they had to scrape the burned skin off her body and graft on new skin, with a risk of major infection, physical therapy and intense pain. No. Joke.

No offense to the OP but his burn is in a totally different class. No comparison.

I'm not going to turn this into a thread about frivolous lawsuits, but I'm going to repeat that the word "lawsuit" has no place here.
 
Wow bummer dude. I have to say this thread has had my brain going in 10 different directions. I want to laugh, debate, and rant all at the same time! lol
 
Damn, I'm going to find a way to oveheat my iPhons, overwork it to the max, and then say 'the least you can do is upgrade it to 3G on same contract'.... 'surely that wouldnt be too much to ask now would it'...
 
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