Last week, the Chicago Tribune published Pain in the pod, which is by now pretty much a standard newspaper piece -- iPods fail but people still love them. However, it included the following paragraph:
An Apple spokeswoman, Natalie Kerris, said iPods have a failure rate of less than 5 percent, which she said is "fairly low" compared with other consumer electronics. "The vast majority of our customers are extremely happy with their iPods," she said, adding that an iPod is designed to last four years.
According to iLounge, that last bit isn't right. The Web site says:
Apple spokeswoman Natalie Kerris has confirmed to iLounge that she was misquoted in a Chicago Tribune article on failing iPods. [cut] Kerris said she told the reporter that the iPod was designed to last "for years"--not "four years."
