Undulations

The past week has been a burning week for smartphones - quite literally.

Smartphones have been catching fire and burning in pockets all around the globe - first was the iPhone that caught fire aboard a plane in Australia - later, almost wickedly ironically, a couple of Samsungs followed suit.

This could mean only one thing, right; that smartphones have grown too intelligent; and were hatching their sinister plan to eradicate humanity and take over Earth?! Why else would an incredibly rare incident of a smartphone battery combusting itself repeat thrice (if not more) during the same week?

My point: Over a week ago, an iPhone 4S catches fire and almost injures a man. Obviously, the internet goes crazy about the incident - no major blog or news source missed the news; and there were Apple fans going “FAKE!!!” and haters going “Poor engineering, Apple sucks.” Just a couple of days later, the Samsung errupted - Apple fans recoiled, “Hah!”, haters went “Meh.”. How could the latter two incidents be so impeccably timed? Two possibilities arise:- One: “burning smartphones” are a rather common phenomenon, that on an average, 2-3 phones burn per week.
Or, Two: something’s fishy, and I don’t mean a phonocalypse.