iPod touch anyone else have their iPod touch screen scratched

[yorkshire]

I have none on the front, but loads on the back, up to the point where I don't care any more.

 

[iParis]

I dropped mine and got about three scratches.
It pissed me off so much.
Now I have just learned to deal with it.

 

[acedew]

I wish that I knew how the scratch got there but it was in a suede pouch in my backpack ( which was empty) in my locker, not moving.

Well that is pretty baffling, how an unmoving, protected iPod would get scratched that bad. I'll subscribe to the aforementioned scratch fairy theory. Does anyone know if Apple warranties their products against scratch fairies? They should. I mean, as consumers that's really out of our control...

 

[TheSpaz]

I have a first gen iPod touch as well as an iPhone 3G and neither of them have scratches on the screen and I don't use screen protectors. I've had the iPod touch for over a year now and the iPhone 3G for 3 months now. I also had an original iPhone for 3 months and that didn't scratch either. I gave the original iPhone to my girlfriend and it still doesn't have scratches on it.

However, my cousin's iPhone is scratched to hell ALL OVER... even on the screen. He doesn't take good care of it.

 

[geko]

My dad took my iPod Touch (1st Gen 32GB) away from me to ensure that I did my homework and not just mess around, and now when he's given it back to me there's a giant scratch on it. I don't know what to do.

I have a few dead pixels which have been there since the beginning (Jan '08), do you think I could swap it because of those?

 

[SnowLeopard2008]

mine is perfect. no case used but the back is scratched a bit.

 

[Ivan P]

My dad took my iPod Touch (1st Gen 32GB) away from me to ensure that I did my homework and not just mess around, and now when he's given it back to me there's a giant scratch on it. I don't know what to do.

I have a few dead pixels which have been there since the beginning (Jan '08), do you think I could swap it because of those?

Probably not, they'll ask why you didn't exchange it as soon as you saw the dead pixels as opposed to waiting an entire year to do it.

 

[geko]

Probably not, they'll ask why you didn't exchange it as soon as you saw the dead pixels as opposed to waiting an entire year to do it.

Aren't the Apple Store staff known to be quite easily willing to replace products?

 

[Sehnsucht]

The only way it could be scratch proof, was if it was made from diamonds.

The 3rd generation should have a diamond-coated screen.

EDIT: Okay, originally that was a joke, but it just occurred to me that only gem-quality diamonds are expensive. Diamond coatings aren't really that pricey, are they??