Apple Loop: New iPhone X Problems, iPhone 8 Swollen Battery Issues, Apple's Arrogant Decision

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Taking a look back at another week of news from Cupertino, this week’s Apple Loop includes new battery problems with the iPhone 8 and 8 Plus, the limited stock of the iPhone X, why Apple has lost its design edge, the arrogance of the iPhone X notch, the iPhone 7 vs the new handsets, iOS 11 update issues, Qualcomm and Apple’s legal fight, and Facebook Messenger’s Apple Music extension.
Apple Loop is here to remind you of a few of the very many discussions that have happened around Apple over the last seven days (and you can read my weekly digest of Android news here on Forbes).
iPhone 8 Battery Problems
Apple has confirmed that it is investigating issues with ‘swelling batteries’ on the iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 plus handsets. A very small number of incidents have been reported where batteries have buckled the outer chassis and frames of the new smartphones. Gordon Kelly reports:
At this stage little is known about the fault, though the Independent’s states Apple believes the problem is caused by “battery swelling” and it is not thought to pose a safety concern like Samsung’s infamous problem with exploding Galaxy Note 7 batteries.
That said Apple has had its own battery problems during the last year and initiated a battery recall program for some iPhone 6S models.


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