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iPod Nano Scratches Result In Suit
Evil W1zard writes "Earlier this week a class action lawsuit against Apple was filed claiming that the iPod Nano has a widespread propensity for scratching easily. The lawsuit alleges that Apple violated state consumer protection statutes, as well as express and implied warranties and charges that Apple knew that there were design problems with the Nano." From the article: "An Apple representative declined to comment on the suit, but Apple has stated that the Nano is made of the same polycarbonate material that's found in previous iPods and maintained that the scratching problem does not appear to be widespread. The lawsuit charges, however, that the Nano contains a thinner coating of resin than on previous iPod models."
Then don't buy an iPod Nano. Do some research. If they scratch easily, why the heck are people buying them?
Because it's made by Apple. Steve Jobs could shit in a white box, price it at $299, and they'd still sell millions.
It's an electronic product: treat it as such.
Electronic products got us to the moon. They fly in the Shuttle. They orbit the Earth, Mars, have landed on numerous planets, even escaped the solar system, after having been subjected to the insane stress of liftoff, high levels of interplanetary radiation, and a beating by interplanetary micrometeorites, some times for years at a stretch. In some cases, such things -- the Pioneer probes and the Mars Rovers come to mind -- last far, far beyond their design lifetimes.
In other words, being an electronic product does not automatically imply delicacy or a lack of hardiness. What perhaps you meant to say is that iPod Nanos are inexpensive consumer-grade electronic products with short design lifetimes and should be treated as such.
Then again, I've had a small handful of cell phones in my time, treated each with a definitive lack of care, and they did not reveal themselves to have problems with scratching. Sure some parts, including the display, did get scratched, but the products were designed with this in mind. The iPod Nano design relies in part on a shiny outer surface to maintain one of the primary features of the product: sexiness. The Apple engineers should have taken greater care to protect that.
Put my fist through my alarm clock with its ding-dong death inside my ear. - The Blackjacks.
So it's stupid that these people expect a halfway decent product? Shit, you should work at Apple, you'll fit right in.