Burn, iPhone, burn there's a riot going on

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

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A young British lad owns an iPhone. That iPhone overheats and melts while docked. He calls CarphoneWarehouse (Can’t they change the name? Brits?) and they tell him the melting is cosmetic. He calls AppleCare and they don’t care. He waits. He wonders. We sit on the edges of our seats, pondering the global implications of millions of melty iPhones.

UPDATE – Bloops! It’s a big scam. Way to go, kid. The first rule of the grift is to not post on MacRumors that you’re trying to scam Apple by blaming glass breakage on overheating.

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