Just another sign that Apple puts some sort of addictive, reason-sapping chemical into their products.

People are actually buying iPod Nanos, which evidently scratch when exposed to a summer breeze, and then dunking them in soapy water to slide a protective case over them.

Why are people accepting Apple's selling of such an obviously defective product?

Apple's iPods appear to be so fragile that an entire industry has developed to protect them.

Top it off with the fact that if you lose the files you bought from iTunes, Apple won't replace them, because... Well, there's no good reason for them not to replace them since it's bits not atoms, but people accept Apple's answer anyways.

If Microsoft pulled half the crap that Apple did, such as suing bloggers and trying to shutdown sites, the blogosphere would be outraged.

By some nefarious means, Apple has convinced their cultists in the Wisdom of Steve in which they obediently type in their credit card number for whatever new item or upgrade that is foisted upon them.