On Monday we pointed you to The Register’s scoop on the iPod nano’s sensitivity to screen scratching. Apple has now come forward and admitted, somewhat, that there is an issue with the nano, but it’s not that it is easily scratched – despite what many are posting on Apple message boards.
Apple has copped to a problem with one manufacturing batch, affecting “less than one-tenth of one per cent” of the units shipped in which the screen actually breaks, according to Phil Schiller, Apple’s senior VP of worldwide product marketing. Schiller called it “a real but minor issue” and said the company will replace those units.
The company won’t replace any scratched nanos, and Schiller advised: “If customers are concerned about scratching we suggest they use one of the many iPod Nano cases to protect their iPod.”
And by “use” Schiller really meant “buy.”
More interesting info here.
Via The Register
