ksz said:
But one of your statements all along has been the following:
There is NO flaw in the iPod nano, that the scratchability of the iPod is perfectly okay, that Apple's use of polycarbonate materials for the wear and tear an iPod will experience is justified, that everyone who complains about the scratchability of the iPod is high on something and should be taking lessons from household furniture polishers and Meguire's car kits.
And yet now you are entertaining the possibility of making the iPod scratch resistant. So what has changed between yesterday and today? There is still no scratch problem on the iPod, right?
No, the statements have been that there is no inherent problem with the nano
that makes it a candidate for litigation compared to the rest of the iPods or anything else made of the same material. Everything else made from polycarbonate has the same problem. So you can stop setting up your straw man, because it's not gonna work.
Apple's use of polycarbonate IS justified. It is almost unbreakable, incredibly resilient, it insulates against kinetic shock better than most plastics, offers a strong natural resistance to chemical damage, and it is relatively easy to maintain. Everyone who owns an iPod should know that it, like everything else, will need to be properly maintained, which may include the possibility of needing a quick polish now and again
if preserving its original appearance is a high priority.
ALL polycarbonate is coated in some way against scratching, even that of the nano and Nalgene bottles. Yet most products that are not eyeglasses are coated to a lesser extent because it's more economical to do so, and the costs of a superior coating do not warrant its use in most applications. CDs are a prime example of this. If it were extremely cheap to dramatically improve scratch resistance, why have they not improved all that much in the past 20 years? Optical clarity is paramount to their function.
Nothing has changed from yesterday to today. There's nothing wrong with making the iPod better, and there never has been. But suing Apple over the nano while neglecting not only all other iPods, or all other polycarbonate products by Apple, or any other polycarbonate consumer product, or any other plastic product is an absolute load of horse ****.
(And that bottom right picture proves that without glare, even your iPod's screen is completely legible, so you've still got nothing. And what
do you have to say about the errant grey click wheel?)
