Since the iPod Nano?s launch customers have been complaining about how easy it is to crack the Nano screen whilst the player is in there pocket. Apple have finally acknowledged the issue and suggested a reason too.<br />
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Apple?s SVP of Marketing Phil Schiller said today in a press release "…this issue has affected less than 1/10 of 1 percent of the total iPod nano units that we?ve shipped. It is not a design issue. It has more to do with obese Americans in tight pants putting the nano in their front jeans pocket, and then sitting for extended periods of time."<br />
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Blaming the nano?s screen issues on fat people is not the first time Apple has come under fire for attacking its super-sized customers. In 1998 the American Obesity Association filed a complaint against Apple charging the company?s hot-selling iMac computer shipped with a miniature keyboard and mouse that could not accommodate the enlarged fingers of obese Americans.<br />
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Read the full story at <a href="http://www.gadgetspy.co.uk/2005/10/02/youre-too-fat-for-an-ipod-nano"><strong>GadgetSpy</strong></a>
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