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Apple gifts India with iPod Nano
Apple Computers Inc's portable music player will hold 1000 songs and 25,000 photos.
Apple Computers Inc. Today launched its portable Music player 'iPod Nano', capable of holding 1000 songs and 25,000 photos, in the Indian market.
Priced in the range Rs 15000-Rs 18,000, the music player will work with the digital juke box software iTunes and features optional accessories, including lanyard headphones, Apple Asia Pacific produc manager Yeo Eng Yiong told reporters here today.
The poduct come in 4GB and 2GB capacities, he added.
Meanwhile, referring to a lawsuit the company faces in the US, Yiong said it would not affect the product's sales.
"I do not think it (the law suit) will affect our sales anywhere other than US," Yiong said.
The lawsuit against the company by a consumer alleges that Apple launched the music player knowing that its design was defective. According to the aggrieved consumers 'iPod Nano' scratched excesively during normal usage.
Stating the problem was up to the individual usage, Yiong said, "Its not very large number.. The problem happens to less than one tenth of one per cent of the products," he said.
The complaint blamed the iPod Nano's defectiveness on the film of plastic resin that covers it to protect it from damage. Previous versions of the iPod were coated with thicker and stronger resin, the suit said.
IPod contributes more than 30 per cent of Apple's sales and the company claimed that "iPod economy has flourished with over 21 milion iPods sold as of June 2005."
