The makers of the iPod Apple have tried to gag a British father and his 11 year old daughter from talking about their experience with their product, Ken Stanborough was sent a form to sign which banned him from telling his story, Ken was told if he wanted a refund he should sign, he refused, the £162 gadget was a birthday present for his daughter Elle.
This is not the first time Apple have tried this in order to hush up bad reports on their product , there have been many cases where the iPod has over heated and exploded, in this case Ken reported it getting hotter in his hand then a hissing sound was followed by vapours escaping from the casing he threw it out into the back garden where thirty seconds later it exploded throwing it 10 feet in the air.
This is not a isolated case An American reporter obtained 800 pages of documentation on the cases from the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) following a Freedom of Information Act request in that country. However, she was unable to get hold of the documents for months after “Apple’s lawyers filed exemption after exemption”.
In those cases, CPSC investigators suggested that the iPods’ lithium ion batteries could be the source of the problem, if apple were not so big and powerful they would not be able to get away with this, how long before someone is blinded or worse killed. to date a 170 million have been sold world wide. Consumers should boycott Apple products until this issue is resolved.
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