"Some owners of Apple Computer's new 'impossibly small' iPod Nano are starting to wonder if the device is also impossibly delicate. The most widespread complaint about the otherwise highly praised device seems to be that the color display screen gets scratched extremely easily," reports CNet.
This week several users also started complaining about screens cracking, or failing, inexplicably. Nano owner Matthew Peterson set up the site, flawedmusicplayer.com (formerly ipodnanoflaw.com) to tell the story about how his Nano screen shattered after just four days, to see if others have had the same problem, and to suggest that Apple recall the Nano and use a stronger screen product.
"It is way too fragile. Apple markets it in a pocket. Hell, Steve Jobs himself pulls it out of his when he announces it," wrote Peterson, who himself was smitten with the Nano upon its release. "It was in my pocket as I was walking and I sat down. No, I didn't sit on it."
Comment: This follows earlier iPod battery complaints, overheating first-run iMac G5s, patchy screens on PowerBooks, motherboard problems, laptop power-supply recalls, the slow Superdrive* issue etc. Such problems are certainly not unique to Apple, but can hardly be overlooked in a company that generally has a premium-priced, aspirational product line.
* Reference to problems with internal SuperDrives added in response to a comment.
