The European Commission: We might ban the iPhone in Europe
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Apple has not responded to the EU threat, but we hope the company comes forth with an official statement that addresses the issue, because we figure the news must be rather distressing for the Cupertino-based manufacturer. The European Union is by no means a market that can be disregarded and a possible European ban may spell the end of the all-winning device, especially if other countries follow suit in case the iPhone proved dangerous.
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1. jskrenes posted on 20 Oct 2010, 01:43 0 0
Define 'going off.' Are these iPhones exploding because of the battery, are people using them in ways that are unsafe? What's going on with these phones that makes the EU feel they need to take such drastic measures, other than it being a monetary or political stunt?
2. cj100570 posted on 29 Sep 2009, 13:48 0 0
Perhaps you haven't been keeping up on current events?! "Going Off" as it pertains to the iPhone; a 26-year-old supermarket watchman from Villevieille France suffered an eye injury after his iPhone screen exploded and shattered, a French teenager was "slightly" injured by flying glass shards from an exploding iPhone, an iPod Touch in the UK "overheated and jumped into the air" after being dropped, and an iPhone in the Netherlands caught fire and melted the passenger seat of a car. Apple mentioned in its submission to the EU that isolated cases of overheating lithium-ion batteries had been reported. Before that Apple's official line was that users must have been dropping the gadgets or otherwise mistreating them.
4. BrokenImaege posted on 29 Sep 2009, 13:58 0 0
Yea, its not looking good at the moment PR wise. And if it continues, missuse or not, governments may look at banning the device. Safety is important now and if the EU starts it, who is the say the US won't do the same......
6. Fanboys Suck posted on 29 Sep 2009, 19:54 0 0
rights....LMAO!!! U.S. Banning the iPhone... funny... well, maybe not too far off with all this Health Care Bull and the other Crap the Government is trying to impose on us...
7. E.N. posted on 29 Sep 2009, 23:53 0 0
I was thinking the same thing. Europe maybe but U.S. no way. Let's go Health Care Bill!
3. jskrenes posted on 29 Sep 2009, 13:57 0 0
Missed that news bit. I suppose that would be bad.
5. ender posted on 29 Sep 2009, 14:43 0 0
looking quite bad PR wise indeed, although the possibility looks pretty bleak now. Still, the resolve of the EU is not to be underestimated, it wasn´t that long time ago when Microsoft got fined $600 mln. and Intel got slapped with a record $1.5 bln.
