well, considering the iphone 3g is the ONLY apple product currently people are complaining about (battery wise)..
Not true. there are other products that have had their share of issues with batteries. And Apple has done battery recalls before. It's usually no big deal, and slmot always pertains to a potential safety issue, not because people complain the battery life is too short.
maybe it does pertain to the iphone. why wouldn't it? it seems logical to think it'd apply more-so to the iphone 3G than any other product.
Not true either. I can think of recent issues with MacBook pros that could certainly warrant a recall.
In any case, this is still a rumor, and rumors are often wrong. Unless the Consumer Products Safety Commission posts a notice on their site that a recall is about to happen, then there is no recall, plain and simple.
if one of you think it doesn't, feel free to offer up some suggestions to what product it could be.
Apple (and other corporations) don't respond to rumors because it's very easy to throw up a flawed argument like this. We don't work for Apple. We don't know what the problem could be or where, or even if there really IS a problem. Just because we can't point to an issue doesn't mean that it HAS to be the iPhone.
And the fact is, we simply don't know for certain there's a recall imminent at all. Some self-proclaimed trading "expert" might have overhead something. Or maybe they didn't at all, and it's a short seller trying to make a quick buck that's spreading an unfounded rumor.
Beside,s there very well COULD be a product that hasn't been seeing any issues at all, but may indeed have really serious problems. If the battery manufacturer discovers a
POTENTIAL issue that
MAY cause a safety problem, then it's usually good jarma for them to let Apple know about it and get the units replaced BEFORE an issue truly does happen. IF the rumor is true, then getting units replaced before a potentially serious issue actually manifests itself can be a good idea, both economically (0 actual incidents = drastically reduced chance of lawsuits) and PR-wise.
--mkrishnan
