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[Lagged2Death]

I bought a 2nd-gen iPod Shuffle years ago, like the week it came out. Plugged it in to Windows iTunes and it immediately updated and bricked itself.

Apple forums showed several threads and hundreds of posts by other people with the exact same problem over the previous few days.

I made a post saying (truthfully) that I had managed to get the iPod working again - by using Winamp. Instead of iTunes.

Within hours, all the message threads about that problem had quietly disappeared.

I decided to return the iPod.

[ekianjo → Lagged2Death]

Thanks for sharing. This confirms that this is far from being a new phenomenon, this is really in Apple's DNA.