Nothing is perfectly safe. People should deal with it, and remember that they don't live in a fairy tale.
I hope statistics exist on how many of them burst into flames. I'd like to compare it to the number of people who choked on a cereal breakfast, or fell from a stairway at home, or other such random accidents with normally benign things. I suspect that the headphones will be no worse than many other common household items, including the low-tech ones.
Including the business of selling self-exploding headphones.
Corporations should deal with it, and remember that they don't live in a fairy tale where they can pull off shit like that off without consequence.
Can't make safe headphones? Leave it to someone who can. Free market or something.
(In case you're not getting it, it's not about living in fairy tales, it's about increasing the cost of failure to corporations to a high enough point that they will put some money into safety instead of pocketing it.)
NASA has a hard time doing this for their vehicles that are intended to be in deep space.
