"Not to mention people with pace makers need to keep the iPhone away from their bodies, like that's really possible. Probably not the best idea to build permanent magnets into your products. Just put in ferrous rings and let the accessory makers build in the magnets."
2. Your pacemaker isn't near your crotch or your ear, the two most likely places an iPhone at that level of close contact with your skin are likely to be found. For those with pacemakers who want to keep their iPhone in their breast pockets, I suspect they kind of figured out on their own that electronics that close to their pacemaker is probably not a great idea.
3. Your comment about the worth of magnets in all manner of devices is so ridiculous that it would be a pointless exercise to try and educate you, but if you think magnets in devices is a bad idea, I have terrible news for you about just about every sort of device you use or have ever used.
Working on an iron ore mine and around steel particles from grinding during fabrication, I can say, it’s not a huge issue with the MagSafe cases.
The AirPods case magnet latch is on the other hand a complete disaster though. Please Apple, magnets are cute and fine for people working in offices but not for many of us. Also please can you make AirPods and their cases in something other than white! I look like a hobo when the dust gets into the AirPods case due to lid not closing because of metal filings stuck on magnet latch.
Surely we are past the white accessories being needed for brand recognition.
Apple could flip the script on the magnet controversy by pointing out that magnets have been shown, at least in experimental instances, to repel sharks. Some animals including sharks and pigeons are affected by magnetic fields. Whether your MagSafe equipped iPhone will keep a shark from eating you or a pigeon from pooping on you is yet to be determined, but who knows? I’m not going to do any experimentation on my own.
Seriously though, there are some rare but legitimate concerns around neodymium magnets used in consumer products. The risk is that children, and I suppose some adults, could ingest multiple magnets which can then cause a bowel obstruction when the magnets pinch and close a part of the digestive tract. This happened when a toy maker used magnets in a paper doll themed toy.
Since these isolated cases regulations have been put in place to prevent this situation with toys and consumer products, which are required to securely retain the magnets and discourage removal and ingestion. This makes sense for products intended for use by children, but anyone can still purchase very high grade loose neodymium magnets from multiple sources, including hardware stores, home improvement stores, and multiple online sources. I also harvest the neodymium magnets from dead hard drives and know people who retrieve them from certain brands of electric toothbrush tips. I used one of the harvested hard drive magnets to fix a problem with my mailbox door flopping open. Now it’s nicely snappy, no more flop, just like the AirPods case lid.
Not to mention people with pace makers need to keep the iPhone away from their bodies, like that's really possible. Probably not the best idea to build permanent magnets into your products. Just put in ferrous rings and let the accessory makers build in the magnets.
Not to mention people with pace makers need to keep the iPhone away from their bodies, like that's really possible. Probably not the best idea to build permanent magnets into your products. Just put in ferrous rings and let the accessory makers build in the magnets.
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2. Your pacemaker isn't near your crotch or your ear, the two most likely places an iPhone at that level of close contact with your skin are likely to be found. For those with pacemakers who want to keep their iPhone in their breast pockets, I suspect they kind of figured out on their own that electronics that close to their pacemaker is probably not a great idea.
3. Your comment about the worth of magnets in all manner of devices is so ridiculous that it would be a pointless exercise to try and educate you, but if you think magnets in devices is a bad idea, I have terrible news for you about just about every sort of device you use or have ever used.
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Seriously though, there are some rare but legitimate concerns around neodymium magnets used in consumer products. The risk is that children, and I suppose some adults, could ingest multiple magnets which can then cause a bowel obstruction when the magnets pinch and close a part of the digestive tract. This happened when a toy maker used magnets in a paper doll themed toy.
Since these isolated cases regulations have been put in place to prevent this situation with toys and consumer products, which are required to securely retain the magnets and discourage removal and ingestion. This makes sense for products intended for use by children, but anyone can still purchase very high grade loose neodymium magnets from multiple sources, including hardware stores, home improvement stores, and multiple online sources. I also harvest the neodymium magnets from dead hard drives and know people who retrieve them from certain brands of electric toothbrush tips. I used one of the harvested hard drive magnets to fix a problem with my mailbox door flopping open. Now it’s nicely snappy, no more flop, just like the AirPods case lid.
Oh my, I was immediately transported back to my first physics class at age 11.
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Two-magnets-can-create-a-magnetic-field-cancellation-Particles-are-pushed-out-from-that_fig8_254059531