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Maybe owner held it wrong way?  |
Good one.
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Li batteries have built-in controller, that is supposed to prevent such situations (hm, I thought it could only happen when charging). Logically faulty controller should be a pretty common problem, yet I've only heared/seen such things only in connection with company that has invented rectangular shape with rounded corner.
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Then you must not read very much. Numerous devices over the last several years have had battery overheating issues. Just 2 posts before yours HarryT provided a link to an article which mentions the mass recall of a multitude of laptops by different manufacturers (Dell, Sony, Fujitsu, Lenovo, and, yes, Apple) due to battery overheating issues. The numbers were over 7 million (and this was back in 2006). Reading in Wiki, I see that in August 2007 Nokia recalled
46 million batteries. All were lithium-ion. I haven't bothered researching what the figures as of 2011 are, but the list is very long indeed.
So either you truly didn't know about other companies' battery issues (highly unlikely, unless you garner all your tech news from a single anti-Apple source) or you deliberately stated something you know to be false because it fits in with your general anti-Apple sentiments.
My money is on the latter.