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European Union threatens to take iPhone off the market

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26 pointsBorisBomega15 comments

Its a real shame the czar doesn't make such noise about apples app approval system. Thats what i was hoping the article was about when I clicked on the link.

But equally, microsoft, intel maybe now apple.

The key to threatening these big players is actually forcing them to comply.

Has microsoft yet paid their fines? or is still being zipped back and forth between appeals and lawyers.

The app approval system may piss you off, but it's quite unlikely to do physical harm. I think her focus is correct.

Things were going this way with the Nano on its original release. In the EU consumer products are supposed to be capable of lasting a minimum of 5 years, the Nano's on release were lasting months. Fortunately for Apple at the time, Jobs wasn't away and they weren't playing coy, they almost instantly changed the shipping to include a case and instructions that using it without a case can shorten its lifespan and then IIRC offered existing Nano owners a free case.

With Jobs gone Apple seems to be screwing up left, right and centre.

Jobs is gone?? He's returned from his recent illness hasn't he?

I heard the announcement that he left, I've yet to hear an announcement that he returned. I may be wrong, but I definitely haven't heard anything about his return.

Brushing it off as an isolated incident shouldn't be acceptable in any market, especially when there might be small children in the vicinity.

Come on Apple, don't tarnish your image. Whether intended or not this looks like complacency.

small children with iPhones?

So you're saying it's physically incapable for a small child to even be around an iPhone? I didn't know Apple had invented a person selective forcefield for their devices . . .

Maybe it's an offshoot of the "reality distortion field" research.

It's possible to leave your child with your iPhone. Perhaps a child could even be sucking on the corner while you're away. Most people don't consider an iPhone a hazardous device to put it out-of-reach.

Actually Senseo is a product of Phillips, which is a Dutch company, not Italian.

I think that the czar's phrasing and choice of words were telling, and perhaps his feelings about power can be inferred from it. You can judge for yourself:

> That hasn’t stopped Kuneva from taking a strong stand in the matter:

> “I don’t need (Apple)’s permission to stop goods entering the market,” told reporters in Brussels.

>" I think that the czar's quote was telling, and perhaps his feelings about power can be inferred from it. You can judge for yourself:

> “I don’t need (Apple)’s permission to stop goods entering the market,” told reporters in Brussels."

When you quote somebody,don't pick sentences out of context. The full quote sounds much more reasonable.

"If goods are dangerous, then we will order a recall. We are checking with labs to see if there is a problem with the phone, with their batteries or if there has been misuse of the device. We need to have 100 percent certainty from one member state that these goods are dangerous."

Sounds more reasonable doesn't it? She is asking her lab people to verify whose claims are accurate and trying to get to the root of the problem. Sounds like a good idea to me.

If It turns out that Apple is lying through its teeth (wouldn't be the first time) it is her job to take the phones off the market.

And of course she doesn't " need (Apple)’s permission to stop goods entering the market."

Sounds like a statement of fact to me.

Edit: Changed "he" to she"(thanks davidw). The original poster used "his feelings of power" and I followed on from that. Fixed.

Meglena is a 'she', not a 'he'.

Misleading.

> Apple has so far called these reports “isolated incidents” and blames overheating batteries or faulty use by device owners.

> That hasn’t stopped Kuneva from taking a strong stand in the matter:

> “I don’t need (Apple)’s permission to stop goods entering the market,” told reporters in Brussels.

> “If goods are dangerous, then we will order a recall. We are checking with labs to see if there is a problem with the phone, with their batteries or if there has been misuse of the device. We need to have 100 percent certainty from one member state that these goods are dangerous.

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