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Apple: iPod Lasts ‘For Years,’ Not ‘Four Years’
Thursday, July 27th, 2006 at 3:00 PM - by Brad Cook
Apple spokeswoman Natalie Kerris on Friday told iLounge that she was misquoted by the Chicago Tribune when the newspaper claimed she said that the iPod lasts "four years." She said that her comment was that an iPod should last "for years."
The Tribune article cited a late 2005 MacInTouch survey in which it found that over 1,400 of the 9,000 iPods owned by over 4,000 respondents had failed. That was a 13.7% rate of failure, divided roughly equally between battery failures and hard drive failures. However, the iPod nano and shuffle, both of which use flash memory rather than a hard drive, fared better in the survey.
The newspaper has not corrected its original story.
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