Sudden Shuffle Death

A PC World story at Yahoo News reports that Apple is replacing iPod Shuffles under warranty when they display the 'flashing orange and green lights of death'.

550 posts on Apple's Shuffle discussion boards have discussed the issue. It appears to be the signal for hardware failure, but the display-less Shuffle, of course, can't give any error codes. The MP3 player will not play after this occurs.

Apple's policy is to replace all products under the standard 12-month warranty and Shuffles have been replaced without question when this has occurred.

Apple documents suggest the flashing lights indicate a 'generic error'. However, some Shuffle owners have reset the player successfully by downloading the latest version of the Shuffle iPod Updater. However, this does not appear to work in all instances.

Apple has not officially commented. The company continues to sell around 1 million 512MB and 1GB Shuffles per month, according to analysts' estimates.

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