Ugh, this is exactly why I find his video kinda misleading and unfair. It’s one thing to test the durability, but its a completely other thing to basically frame the device to consumers as a fire and explosion hazard by doing things to it that no normal person does, even by accident.

The claim that in the last 10 yeas no other phone exploded probably lies in the fact that phones were mostly not foldable and double the thickness. The iPhone 6 Plus bent just as bad, just not at the place where the battery was. He said it himself, he probably punctured the battery while bending more the already bent and shattered phone.

He, for what I can remember, also didn’t bother to explicitely mention that this is an extreme case and it could happen, but tries to play it casually like Google has a massive issue and he “just used the phone as normal”. He created bad publicity, surely attracting many many views by framing this as something unexpected and controversial.

If he started punching all phones for a test, they will all go up in flames.

Because only Google provided everything needed to actually fully support the hardware it runs on. Besides, hardware is just the skeleton, as long as you exchange the brains inside, you are fine. Like a bomb shell but empty inside.

Same way you protect anything else valuable in your house - by locking the door and potentially installing (selfhosting) security cameras. I’d completely disagree that a server will be a target for a common thief. What are they gonna do with that? Who is gonna buy that from them? What can they buy with that? It’s useless garbage for them.