I know that Apple also recently acknowledged a "cracking" problem in a very small fraction of the nano screens on the market. This is not unusual for early LCD manufacturing runs and, consequently, it's a topic I do not plan on addressing here.
When the screen-scratches story first broke, the number of complaints on Apple's site sat at under 500. I'm sure it's higher now, but what does this mean? Is there a fundamental flaw here?
When I asked Mike what he thought, he brushed it off. Scratches on people's beloved iPod screens are not new. He pointed me to an interesting article on almost a half dozen ways to remove or at least reduce the visibility of scratches from virtually all full-size iPods. None of them are 100 percent effective. iPod's plastic screen would, naturally, need to be buffed down to be "scratch-free." No product on the list—including toothpaste (!)—or any others I can imagine will return the screen to its original unblemished state. Mike suggested that iPod owners visit their local jeweler, as they're experts at removing scratches from damaged watch faces.