p2pnet.net News:- Aiming to get people off its back for its poor environmental record, at the same time trying to boost sales, Apple has introduced a national iPod ‘recycling’ program.

Steven P. Jobs recently tried to defend Apple’s disposal record, and other environmental concerns, when a group of people disrupted a shareholders’ meeting at the Apple HQ in California.

He objected to Apple being singled out, calling it ‘bullshit’.”

Apple has been having battery problems for some time and is just now settling up for complaints vigorously expressed in 2003 which claimed it had misrepresented the iPod battery life.

Now, “Customers who return a music player to one of the company’s 100 retail stores across the United States will get 10 percent off the purchase of a new one,” it states, pledging to “dispose of all the iPods brought in for free”.

To be eligible for the offer, people must bring in a standard iPod, an iPod Mini or the photo version, and use the discount the same day.

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See:-
Apple – Apple Announces Free iPod Recycling Program at US Retail Stores, June 3, 2005
vigorously expressed – Apple to pay up on lawsuits, p2pnet, June 3, 2005

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