iPhones don't like French people.

Yahoo! reports that as many as ten French consumers have reported "exploding" iPhones within the past month. A few have even suffered eye injuries as the glass screens have shattered and the devices have burst into flames.

Apple is of course claiming that these are isolated incidents, but that didn't stop the European Commission from launching an investigation. All 27 EU members have been asked to report similar incident using the RAPEX system (it's a consumer alert system used for dangerous products, but it really should be the name of a brand of liquid mace).

Then again, when Apple has sold more than 1.2 million iPhones around the world, it's probably not a big deal if a handful of them turn out to contain miniature bombs in the form of lithium batteries.