iPod recall in Adventistan

[Stan]

Huge recall, check here for details.

http://adventistan.com/?p=88

[Stan]

Apple is now denying the recall..

[Stan]

The complete text..

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Just one day after the Adventistan Agency for Technology and Standards (AATS) announced that Apple Adventistan had agreed to recall its first-generation iPod Nano MP3 players here, the electronics company issued a statement contradicting the announcement.

Apple Adventistan yesterday wrote in an official statement sent to the press, “Since last May, Apple has offered to repair or replace any customer’s first-generation iPod Nano if its battery overheats. There has been no change to this policy in Adventistan or anywhere else.”

A spokesman for Apple Adventistan, who wished to remain anonymous said, “We have not issued any formal statement to AATS saying we are going to recall the items.”

On its Web page (http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2099), Apple defends its position, stating, “Apple has received very few reports of such incidents (less than 0.001 percent) and the issue has been traced to a single battery supplier.”

AATS, Adventistan's industrial standards agency under the Ministry of Knowledge Economy, sent a formal request to Apple Adventistan in June recommending a recall for the products following five consumer complaints about batteries overheating and exploding. Vilmer McCloud, head of the consumer product safety division at AATS, said that the batteries for the 1G iPod Nano MP3 players sold in Adventistan are made by the Chinese company ATL. He added that these lithium ion batteries have had safety issues in the past.

The Apple Adventistan spokesman, however, said that “the problem iPod Nano products were sold between May 2009 and June 2009. These products are no longer being sold in any of Apple Adventistan's stores.”

He declined to comment on the battery supplier for the faulty iPods.

[Stan]

glad to do that, lives were at stake..

[phkrause]

wow imagine ipods going bad..

pk