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iPod nano Owners In Screen Scratch Trauma
wellington map writes "TheRegister reports iPod nano users have discovered that it is unbelievably easy to scratch the screen, which quickly makes the colour screen all but useless for viewing album art and photos stored on the machine. Apple's discussion forums are already host to hundreds of threads on this topic."
all but useless
When you use the phrase "all but", think of "everything except" -- if something is "everything except useless", it means it isn't useless. Your sentence therefore means that:
scratching "...quickly makes the colour screen useful for viewing album art and photos..."
So, scratched screen = [everything (except useless)]
Replace "all but" with "nothing short of" and you've got it.
scratching "...quickly makes the colour screen nothing short of useless for viewing album art and photos..."
BS. Something harder than the plastic is needed to scratch it. Geology 101.
Secondly, it's PLASTIC. If you don't want it to scratch, then cover it. The NANO Tubes will be out very shortly so that you and your ilk can stop your crying.
Lastly, I have two friends that own these, both are scratched (keys and change in pocket with the NANO... duh), but when the screen is on and backlit, you dont' see one of the scratches. Not one, so... I simply do not believe you when you say "can't even read the screen". I call BS.
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge." - Daniel Boorstin
I put a deep gouge in my iPod's screen (4th gen unit) simply by dragging my fingernail across it LIGHTLY. The plastic they use is horribly susceptible to scratching -- much more so than my cellphone, for instance. I had to stick a piece of clear packing tape over the screen to keep it from getting unreadable. And yes, it will get unreadable if it has a lot of small scratches (which are caused by denim rubbing against it).
Shut up. Noone cares. And please just say "bullshit" like normal people.
Something harder than the plastic is needed to scratch it. Geology 101.
There's plenty of shit in dirt found everywhere that can scratch plastic. Devices such as these need to be made of plastic that doesn't scratch so easily. I find it extremely hard to believe that there'd be so much discussion of the topic going on if they didn't scratch particularly easy.
I keep my cellphone in the same pocket as my work keys. Sure, it's got some minor scratching. Nothing particularly bad. I kept my previous phone in the same pocket with the same keys, and it had an exposed screen. After almost 4 years, the paint had all been chipped / scratched off(silly painted cellphone...), and the screen, while scratched up a bit, was still perfectly readable.
From the pictures I see of the Nano, it looks like a piece of shit to me. It must be made of some pretty soft plastic to scratch so easily.
Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken - Tyler Durden
any adult who buys something as stupid and overpriced as an ipod not only deserves what they get, but should,just on prinicple, be made to suffer as much as possible
i made the mistake of promising my daughter an ipod, without understanding what an unbeliveable piece of shit, rip opp, frashion statemtn piece of garbage ipod is.
Any adult who buys this shit FULLY deserves what they get.
It si like any high priced thing that is fashionable: you are paying a huge premium because yoou dont have enough fortitude and backbone to resist what other, stupid people are doing just because a lot of other stupid people are doing it.
I could go on, but the very moderate, temperate comments above, shoud do
cheaply made products which are priced higher then the better alternitives.
guess you forgot to do your research, there are other and better players on the market. best of all they are not made with a substance that won't scratch if you look at it in the worng way.