Exploding Batteries: Dell Blames Sony
Where's the kaboom? There was supposed to be an Earth-shattering kaboom!
Thursday, September 14, 2006 by Zoomba | Discussion: WinCustomize News
After numerous reports of laptops catching fire and batteries melting through cases, Dell and Apple issued recalls of several laptop lines that carried a Sony lithium-ion battery that was suspected to be the culprit. While it has been well established that it was the Sony battery at fault, no one at Dell or Apple had yet taken Sony to task publicly over the issue. That is, until this week.
Dell founder, Michael Dell, denied that the defect was in any way the fault of their laptop assembly process, and that the blame could be laid squarely at Sonys' feet for contaminating an entire batch of battery cells in manufacturing.
"The batteries were contaminated and were no good no matter what you did with them", Dell said. He also acknowledged the chance of the battery catching fire, which was why they did the recall last month.
Sony has agreed to help cover recall costs by Dell and Apple, however they are denying that the issue is entirely their fault, citing hardware configuration as being a partial issue.
Sony uses the same batteries in their Vaio laptop line and have not experienced similar issues.
Reply #2 Thursday, September 14, 2006 4:16 PM
That would be Sony's fault.
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~Brandon Price
Dell Inc
Reply #9 Friday, September 15, 2006 12:52 AM
Sony deliberately shipped faulty batteries to Dell, Apple and others, with the view that consumers would turn to the Sony Vaio when their Dell/Apple laptops caught fire ....or when they heard of the fire risk and were not prepared to chance it.
The second part of this elaborate scheme was to lower the prices on Sony laptops to well below those of their competitors....yet still not below an acceptable/handsome profitability level.
The Motive: to recoup lost sales and boost marketshare after the rootkit debacle...to recover lost trust/faith in Sony products, given the Sony Vaio does not suffer the same spontaneous combustion fate as Dell/Apple laptops.....
Reply #10 Friday, September 15, 2006 8:48 AM
| Sony deliberately shipped faulty batteries to Dell, Apple and others, with the view that consumers would turn to the Sony Vaio when their Dell/Apple laptops caught fire ....or when they heard of the fire risk and were not prepared to chance it. |
I think this theory makes the most sense so far
But in the end it doesn't really matter whose fault it is as long as batteries are replaced
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Reply #12 Saturday, September 16, 2006 8:42 PM
Everyone keeps talking about Sony going down, when ? the rootkit has been and gone, the battery problems will only hurt their OEM battery sales and if anyone thinks the PS3 is going to sink then you obviously have yet to see the price difference between PS3s and HD-DVD players , in the UK its like £50 (around $100) small price for HD games as well as HD movies on your new HD-TVReply #13 Sunday, September 17, 2006 5:27 AM
| Everyone keeps talking about Sony going down, when ? |
Exactly....When??? Okay, Sony has had its problems, but IT will bounce back and remain a serious competitor in the electronics industry.
Besides, Sony make some great products that are reliable performers. I have several Sony products (audio, video and gaming) and have been quite happy with them all...and no doubt there are millions of similarly satisfied consumers who will continue to support Sony products, irrespective of the rootkit debacle and more recent battery issue. When PSP3 hits the shelves, neither of these things will get a second thought and Sony will have lost very little. looking at the bigger picture.
If we were talking about Acme, the company which sold various devices to Wile Coyote in in his numerous attempts to ensnare Roadrunner, I could see a major collapse, but Sony is too big an entity to succumb to a couple of bad press issues. Nobody would genuinely think of a total demise if this were MS in the limelight....same thing with Sony, too big and well established to buckle under over what is essentially a miniscule thing in the greater scheme of things.
That's my tuppence ha'pennies worth.
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Reply #1 Thursday, September 14, 2006 1:50 PM
Word has it that Sony is trying their best to get more quarters to make more Insta-Martians. (Just add water!)