iPod cause hearing damage
JKP is reported to allege that iPods “can produce sounds of more than 115 decibels, a volume that can damage the hearing of a person exposed to the sound for more than 28 seconds per day” and are “inherently defective in design and are not sufficiently adorned with adequate warnings regarding the likelihood of hearing loss”.
The report says that “Apple was forced to pull the iPod from store shelves in France and upgrade software on the device to limit sound to 100 decibels, but has not followed suit in the United States, according to the complaint”. There’s no suggestion in the complaint that iPods are any more likely to cause hearing damage than other portable music players so our presumption is that JKP has looked around to see who is the biggest name in MP3 players and then taken aim at Apple.
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