AppleInsider | Apple sued over exploding iPod touch, iMac display issues »
Posted By sleepingbeauty2 8 months, 1 week ago in NewsThe first of the lawsuits, filed on Wednesday in a Southern District of Ohio court, claims that Apple negligently built the second-generation iPod touch -- incorrectly referred to as an "iTouch" through the entire complaint -- with a flaw that ultimately caused serious burns.
In the 14-page suit, Lynette Antrobus of Cincinnati describes buying a 16GB iPod in November that, just two weeks later, exploded in her son's pocket and not only set his pants on fire but "melted" through to his leg, causing second degree burns. Besides these more immediately obvious losses, Antrobus also claims the impact of the unexpected event will give her son "mental distress" and other problems well past the initial damage done.
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I have been losing confidence in some of the products that Apple has been coming out with recently.
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