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????牽涉蘋果公司（Apple）且具有新聞價值的離奇事件向來有其一必有其二。這可謂是一條舉世公認的真理。 ????兩周前，有報道稱中國一名23歲的空姐觸電身亡，罪魁禍首顯然是一個出現故障的第三方iPhone充電器。隨后，上周五，有報道稱中國又出現了一例與iPhone有關的觸電事故，同樣也是因為第三方充電器以及接觸不良的壁式插座。 ????讓我們看看第二起事故。據上周四的《北京晚報》（Beijing Evening News）報道，7月8日，30歲的武建同在給iPhone 4充電時突然被電。武建同大喊一聲：“我觸電了！”隨后，武建同就昏倒在地，停止了呼吸。他隨后被送往醫院搶救。如今，距離事發已過去10天，武建同仍處于昏迷狀態。包括AppleInsider 和Morning Joe在內的多家美國科技博客援引了這篇報道。 ????如果說在新聞報道之外，我們能得出什么經驗教訓的話，那就是使用劣質iPhone充電器存在風險，尤其是在供電線路不一定符合標準的國家。 ????要想了解如何辨別充電器的好壞，我推薦閱讀肯?謝里夫的文章： ????? 正版蘋果iPhone充電器拆解 ????? （山寨）iPhone充電器拆解（財富中文網） ????譯者：項航 |
????It is a truth universally acknowledged that one bizarre incident in possession of good news value and an Apple (AAPL) hook must be accompanied by another. ????So it is that the reports of the death by electrocution last week of a 23-year-old Chinese stewardess, apparently by way of a faulty third-party iPhone charger, were followed Friday by reports of a second Chinese iPhone electrocution -- again via third-party charger and a wall socket of uncertain grounding. ????According to the second story -- reported Thursday by the Beijing Evening News and picked up by outlets from AppleInsider to Morning Joe -- 30-year-old Wu Jian Tong was plugging his iPhone 4?into the wall when he shouted (in Chinese) "I'm getting shocked," stopped breathing and had to be rushed to the hospital, where he was still comatose 10 days later. ????If there's a lesson here -- beyond the rules of second-day journalism -- it's that using knock-off iPhone chargers carries risks, especially in countries where you're not always sure the electrical wiring is up to code. ????For background on what separates a good charger from a bad, I recommend Ken Shirriff's primers: ????? Apple iPhone charger teardown: quality in a tiny expensive package ????? Tiny, cheap, and dangerous: Inside a (fake) iPhone charger |
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