Apple launched an investigation Problems with the iPhone, which exploded right into the hands of users.
The initiator of the investigation became the French authorities, they are interested in how the iconic smartphone safe. After all, many iPhone owners, not only in France, complained that their phone screens cracked themselves. Among the inhabitants of the French having such complaints were only ten people. One teenager is known even got an eye injury due to an explosion of the smartphone in his hand.
An Apple spokesman in a statement to Agence France-Presse reported that at the moment not found any evidence that the cause of failure was the iPhone battery to overheat. (Yes, and the sheer number of complaints about problems with the smartphone was not so numerous.) It seems that the fault screen of the iPhone is not due to the battery, but because of external influence on the phone.
Apple commercial director in France, Michel Kool (Michel Coulomb) met with the French Minister of Consumer Affairs Hervé Novelli (Herve Novelli), to discuss the results of the investigation. After the meeting, Novelli told the press on the current data, but said it was too early to blame the only consumers of mistreating an iPhone. "According to Apple executives, the first results show that smartphones have not been damaged due to a battery defect that led to the explosion. All indications are that the explosion was preceded by a strike, due to which the phone's screen and burst "- so said the Minister. He also added that in the case of damage to the eyes teenager refused to give their smartphone to research the causes of the explosion.