“Word around the Web is that Jason Tomczak filed a lawsuit alleging that the music players ‘scratch excessively during normal usage, rendering the screens on the Nanos unreadable,'” Alyce Lomax writes for The Motley Fool. “…Debate rages on the subject of the nano’s tendency to scratch or not — after all, some have subjected the nano to strenuous torture tests, with the guys at Ars Technica dropping one at various speeds and running it over with cars — but I can’t help thinking that continued buzz about the nano’s propensity for scratched or otherwise damaged screens just can’t be good for Apple.”
“After all, Apple has always been known for its elegant products, and the very idea that is being bandied about — that the company knew the nano had a design flaw and released it anyway — is just not good PR,” Lomax writes. “Will this hurt Apple? …I can’t help wondering whether all of this bad press might frighten some shoppers away from the iPod nano and give the Apple brand a few scratches as well.”
Full article here.
[UPDATE: 3:30pm ET: Revised headline to drop “class-action.”]
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Joy.
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