Reports of faulty iPod batteries — from the torched Saab or the recent problems in Korea over Nanos –Â are occasionally in the news.
One investigation now claims that Apple lawyers tried to hush-up battery problems that have led to fires.
Amy Clancy at KIRO TV, the CBS affiliate in Seattle, spent seven months trying to obtain documents about iPods from the national Consumer Product Safety Commission.
The delay? Apple lawyers filed “exemption after exemption,” her report says.
She eventually got through the smoke to obtain 800 pages said to be the first comprehensive report into how many iPod batteries go up in smoke, some of them burning their owners.
Those pages contained some 15 incidents of fiery MP3 players, some you can download from the TV site, including a jogger who says she still has a penny-sized burn scar on her chest from wearing an overheated iPod. Apple is said to have told her it was an “isolated incident.”
Out of the millions of iPods sold, are the faulty batteries too few to be significant or not?
Via ZDnet
