The last one to receive such treatment is the Samsung Galaxy Note 7.
In June, Apple announced a recall plan for some 15-inch MacBook Pro computers because battery failure could cause a fire. The recall has now caught the attention of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
The FAA said in a statement that the authorities have noticed Apple’s battery recall plan for some MacBook Pro computers and issued a warning to major US airlines. The regulator also reminded airlines to comply with the 2016 safety instructions for recalling battery products, which means that affected Apple laptops should not be carried on board as cargo or passenger carry-on baggage.
Not only in the United States, the EU Aviation Safety Agency issued a warning to Apple’s recalls, advising EU airlines to comply with the 2017 regulations. However, Europe has not initiated a ban on the aircraft, but has requested that “the equipment containing the recalled lithium-ion battery be shut down and not used on the aircraft.”
There are also some cargo airlines that have reacted together. This week, four airlines of the air service service ECS Group, TUI Group Airlines, Thomas Cook Airlines, Alitalia and Transat Airlines, jointly imposed a ban on boarding laptops carrying the above-mentioned Apple recalls.
These companies wrote in their internal letter to employees: “Please note that the 15-inch Apple MacBook Pro laptop sold between mid-2015 and February 2017 is prohibited from bringing any aircraft we authorize.
Of course, the above ban is only for the Macbook Pro with the problem battery. If the computer has changed the battery, it can still be taken on the plane.
In June, Apple announced that has determined that the batteries in a handful of earlier 15-inch MacBook Pro computers may overheat and pose a fire safety hazard. Affected devices are sold mainly between September 2015 and February 2017, and Apple will replace the affected batteries for users for free.
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There are about 432,000 MacBook pro laptops in the USThe brain was recalled, and about 26,000 computers in Canada were also affected. The situation in Europe is still unknown.
The large-scale recall of products generally only occurs when the failure may affect personal safety. Therefore, the recalls initiated by the vehicle companies are more, and the recalls initiated by consumer electronics companies are rare. For example, Apple’s 2016-2017 MacBook and MacBook Pro computer’s butterfly keyboard has design flaws, often appearing in the gray to make the button failure, but Apple is only promised to provide free keyboard service. Even if he ate a collective lawsuit, he did not initiate a recall.
massive recall not only a blow to the image of the product will also increase the company’s sales costs, impact revenue, is quite upset when there is no way. Before Apple, the most famous large-scale recall of consumer electronics was initiated by Samsung. After several battery fire incidents in Galaxy Note 7, Samsung finally decided to launch a global recall and discontinue the aircraft. This delay is also due to the fact that the recall will inevitably hit the company.
Galaxy Note 7 has also been banned by most airlines around the world, compared to Apple’s problem seems not so serious. Moreover, Galaxy Note 7 was launched as a flagship machine in 2016, and Apple’s computer was mainly sold in 2015. Many of them have undergone replacement and the volume has been reduced. The blow will be relatively small.