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Apple has admitted that iPods manufactured in sweat shops in China have been infested with the RavMonE virus whihc will only affect Windows computers.

Apple has downplayed the risk saying that only 1% of the video iPods are infected with the virus and that an up to date anti-virus program should have no problem dealing with the virus.

Who knew that Steve Jobs was an Irish politician at heart - 'Ah sure it'll be grand lads!'

Update: Just clocked this in a press release on the Apple site

As you might imagine, we are upset at Windows for not being more hardy against such viruses...

Are you serious Apple? WTF?

The sentence continues...

....and even more upset with ourselves for not catching it.

well, thats alright then isnt it?

Lets break this down - Apple produced a virus infected product and shipped it without sufficiently testing it which could result in some people being infected and losing 'data'. This 'data' will probably include unrecoverable baby pictures, emails from loved ones, lovers and other 'sentimental' valued data. No doubt Apple will then write a press release with a subtext along the lines of:

We are very upset that Windows users don't practice a rigourous backup procedure, we realise that we fucked up, but seriously dudes, those windows users, I mean how hard is it to stick a DVD in and do a backup? Ha ha

Fuckers

If the big four music companies would license Apple their music without the requirement that it be protected with a DRM, we would switch to selling only DRM-free music on our iTunes store. Every iPod ever made will play this DRM-free music.

If Apple is so forward-looking and have so much influence in popular culture (not to mention the all-important lobbyists) why don't they just do it?

Just do it! Take the bull by the horns and drop DRM tomorrow. While you are at it, drop the price of a single song to 25 cent.

Embody your archetype Steve-O - become the anti-establishment hero that you keep telling us you are.

Or is this just another cynical marketing ploy?

hmm. Thought so...