RSSiPod Nano Gets Protective Sleeve
By Ed Oswald | Published November 11, 2005, 12:48 PM
Although it has repeatedly denied any widespread problem with scratching on its diminutive music player, reports appeared on the Web Friday that Apple has begun adding a protective sleeve to new iPod Nano shipments.
"The case we ship with the new 5th generation iPod has received great feedback from customers and we are including a similar case with the iPod nano," Apple spokesperson Steve Dowling told BetaNews.
According to reports, the fabric sleeve is nearly identical -- albeit smaller -- to those bundled with the newest video-enabled iPods.
The company may have taken this step as a pre-emptive measure to prevent further damage from an ongoing class-action lawsuit against the company, which recently expanded to include Nano owners in the United Kingdom and Mexico.
Both suits allege that Apple had knowledge of screen defects prior to the release of the iPod Nano, but ignored them in favor of ensuring the product made it to the market in a timely manner.
Despite maintaining that the material used to protect the screen of the Nano is the same as previous iPods, rumors have surfaced that the company may be ordering its Chinese manufacturing plants to coat the players with an extra layer of protective plastic.
Even with the complaints, Apple is preparing to ship as many as 4 million Nanos each month for the holiday season. In the 17 days after the device launched, one million players were sold. The company said at the time that this included an "enormous backlog."
Just wanted to tip people off to a little known fact. While one apple robot is out there saying that its the same coating as on earlier ipods, another has publically stated that they started using a new clear gloss coating when they introduced the black ipods, so that they would maintain a consistent 'look.' So by its own words, apple is directly lying to you, the consumer. Think different. Think scam.
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|i bet shipping these sleeves is cheaper than fixing the original problem
glad i'm still a nonadopter
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|What about people who already have a Nano?
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|They lose, like every other early adopter has lost.
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|Apple is going to send the earlier buyers the covering??
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|its still not 'real' fix but it is better than nothing...
I need one as present (christmas), I would really like if author of the article could make some research and informs us HOW we can differentiate 'new' nano from old one.
E.G. when buying via e-shops etc, will there be some 'sign' v2?
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|Why would you want one? Have you not been following the problems?
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|Some people don't learn.
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|ha ha, that's what i was thinking too.
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|This still will not fix the underling problem with this product
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|And what problem is this, exactly?
Whiny customers who are complaining?
This is from a person with a scratched black 4gb nano.
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|You to see above post. If you don't know what problems, you deserve to throw your money away dude.
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|A million idiots in 17 days I have to laugh out loud.
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|Funny thing. It's my money. But other than a few screens cracking, and the things gettign scratched to hell, I don't see any problems.
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|and you being completely blind and oblivious to the world
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|other than a few screens cracking, and the things gettign scratched to hell, I don't see any problems.
LMAO, "other than the problems, there is no problem"
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|IIRC, Apple copped to the broken screens and is replacing those. As to the scratching: I got a new phone. I already scratched it within the first day. Whoopty do. I use it. I have 2 physical jobs, on my feet the whole time. That happens. Ipods getting scratched? Whatever. Do I care? nope. Does it still play? Yep. Gasp. It still works. Does the scratching detract from the usefulness or funcioning of the product? No...cause it sucks to view pics on the thing anyways...so as long as I can legibly read the screen, it works.
Or how about this: I don't give a s***. The damn thing is in my pocket usually anyways. It does it's primary function, plays music, not a fashion accessory.
For those not getting the picture, I DON'T CARE THAT IT SCRATCHES. And, imo, those whining about it are just...whiners.
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|I agree with ptksr, I know a few of you really hip people out there have made your ipods into necklaces, watches and earrings but for those of us who are less intent on making prats of ourselves my ipod stays in my pocket. Slight scratching but NOTHING distracting me from viewing the screen and using the ipod to view photos of play music. Seriously guys... have u got a phone? Is it scratched? Yup bet it is but I don’t c u all getting together and taking Nokia to court. Muppets
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|Ha Ha, that is a post that actually says something.
Seriously, if screens are breaking under normal use, that just shouldn't be happening, and I would still complain. Scratches are a bit petty to worry about.
I tend to use open source, so I complain that apple doesn't support ogg music files before I complain about scratches, which is why I bought a competitors product :-)
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|And to each their own (that usually is my motto, FWIW). I either use .mp3 or iTunes' format (to be honest, as long as it works, I don't care)
Capacity ended up being a deciding factor in my choice, not "coolness" or anything else. Nobody at the time offered a flash player with more than 2gb (if that).
Next time around, I'll probably end up buying a competitor, iRiver if anybody, and burning songs (those from iTMS) to CD then ripping them as mp3 or ogg or whatever suits my fancy that day.
To sum up my utterly incoherent thoughts, the screens cracking, yea, I'd piss and moan. And that's being fixed. The scratching, and accompanied whining, as others have said, is petty.
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|The point is you are paying alot of money for a product that should not have these problems, there are alot of other mp3 plays out there that cost 1/2 of an iPod and they don't break and get scratched as easy
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