I would expect its more likely they will swap them out for refurbished current or previous generation units.
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Apple Agrees to Replace Overheating First-Generation iPod Nanos in Japan
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I would expect its more likely they will swap them out for refurbished current or previous generation units.
I have one as new as they come. I got it as a gift and was so overwhelmed I hardly used it. In fact I put it away back in the original box and only take it to charge the battery. So what can I exactly get for it now? 
Why doesn't Japan have a right to enforce consumer protection? Are you trying to propose that Apple is above the Law of the ( said ) Land?
Today Japan, tomorrow the world. Apple stock is getting hammered today on speculation of a world wide ipod Nano recall.
What recall speculation is currently hammering Google? Amazon? NASDAQ? Dow Jones? Cause they are all down today. And why isn't this big recall news hitting the wires?
tell that to my IIgs, or to my Pentium 1, or my GE VCR, or a few other things i own that are 20+ years old that still work like the day it was new.
it really depends on what that old **** is.
WOW WTF are you smoking. Its should only be common since to know that a car would need regular maintenance and or need repairs. doing regular maintenance on a car is not the same as having a faulty part replaced (as a example, a 2.7l v6 in a dodge all have a faulty design, The ignition/park shift interlock system was faulty on a few dodge trucks and vans, the wobble of death in a few jeeps, fords, and other trucks but hasn't had a recall as i know of.)
and the thing i am getting at is this is for cars and trucks more then 5 years old. replacing brakes on a car is a part of regular maintenance (unless it was apart of a recall due to being faulty, or known to be faulty). And even then it would just depend on what was faulty in what was going to be replaced.
you should have used a sarcasm tag in your post.
Err.. What? Are you telling me that I can't take my ipod to the Apple Store and say, 'yeah yeah, sure, I'm getting all sorts of symptoms. In fact I'm using the nano to heat the living room. Please replace it.'? Is Apple going to knock me back? Don't think so. Or are you one of those holier than thou kinda guys?
I'd hope so too. Unless we're in the matrix and the program's making me imagine I'm in Tokyo when in fact I'm in a little cubicle with a tube stuck in the back of my head..
it has to be said that Apple is one of the only companies that cares about its customers enough to replace 5 year old products. When I call dell about my 1 year old laptop, I just get a call center in some country and basically told to go f@#k myself.
Please re-read the post I replied to and (most importantly) check batteries in your sarcasm meter
would have pointed that out in a much less polite manner, and ended up regretting it, no doubt, so thank you for getting there first!
I still use mine and love it, allthough the battery life is terrible now, and sometimes it does get hot charging but other then that its my only ipod where as my iphone 1st gen has that stupid recessed head phone jack so i can't use it with hardily anything.
Oh, you'd have gotten that reaction from Apple, too, until the (Japanese) government stepped in. The *reason* the govt. stepped in was because Apple wasn't responding.
