Apple Encourages Chinese Customers to Use Official Chargers Following Fatality

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Posted July 25, 2013 at 3:03pm by Shalom Levytam

Apple has posted a new webpage encouraging Chinese customers to use official Apple chargers following two incidents with users being shocked by their charging iPhones, reports TNW.

The translated passage reads:

When you charge your iPhone or iPad, we suggest that you use all USB power adapters with correspondingly-labeled USB cables. These adapters and cables can be purchased as individual items from Apple and authorized Apple retailers.

It's believed that a third party of knock-off chargers were responsible for the death of Ma Ailun, a flight attendant who was shocked to death while answering a phone call on her charging iPhone, and for putting Wu Jiantong into a coma by shocking him as he plugged his iPhone to charge.

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Uberdank! - July 26, 2013 at 7:45pm

What is Black money lmao bahhahha

lepaka - July 26, 2013 at 10:31am

if you work in industry, you will know that the products as to be tested before goes out to the market. and that cost really black money! Apple test their own products intensively. do the after market products are tested according to Apple standards? off course not, so by original products if you desire to keep walking on the safe side

Überdank! - July 26, 2013 at 8:20am

Apples latest app "Buy or Die!" DL now.

AppleOvercharg - July 25, 2013 at 10:01pm

One solution tell apple cut 1/2 price with all their accessories then no body will buy after market hahaha

BA - July 25, 2013 at 4:37pm

Idiots!!! The fake apple chargers look just like those!!! To the teeth!

McLovin - July 25, 2013 at 4:27pm

Always wondered how they made such small powerful chargers. Guess it wasn't that easy or cheap to make them after all.

liuping - July 25, 2013 at 3:48pm

More like "don't risk death for $20 in savings".

justabrake - July 25, 2013 at 3:38pm

An Australian woman was just shocked ! That's a another one !