Why the iPhone 4 Burning USB Case is so Big
Now picture this, there are at least 1.7 million Apple iPhone 4’s out there in the world. They sold that much in the first three days of sales and it has been over a week now. Several stores report that they have run out and are expecting a second batch of the devices to arrive soon. Indeed, there are so many of these handsets being used right now.
This is why being able to see the big picture with the recent case of an iPhone 4 catching fire through the USB is important. The worry is not that it will affect other devices (it has already been confirmed that the cause of the problem is a unique issue with that specific device), but rather, why is Apple still not implementing a better quality check?
Sure, it might have been difficult to find the issue in the first place, but that was not the only problem that the iPhone had. The phone has a bad antenna configuration; the screen was reported to have yellow blobs and several other small issues that Apple seems to have missed. Indeed, the problem with the USB port is not associated with any the abovementioned problems, but they certainly get harder to ignore when news about more Apple issues (isolated or otherwise) start reaching the big news.
The folks at Cupertino certainly messed up this time. Hopefully, with the next Apple iPhone they would be able to iron out the issues instead of rushing the release.
Speaking of the iPhone 4 that caught on fire, there are actually two other instances of the Apple’s other devices in similar situations. The first is when an Apple iPod exploded in the pants of a young man. The boy was injured with second degree burns and the cause of the fire is still not known.
