“The vendor made me do it!” Wow, where did that come from? Who knows, but I will tell you that the latest reports indicate that iPod nano screen issues appear to be coming from the vendor according to Apple…

Breaking news at this late hour brings some clarity to cracked LCD issues experienced by some early adopters of the iPod nano. Apple will, as of today, be accepting returns of iPod nanos whose LCD screens have experienced the spontaneous cracking problem. According to The Wall Street Journal, which quotes Phil Schiller, Apple’s VP of world-wide-product marketing, a vendor issue was at the core of the problem.

The problem had been pushed to the forefront of consumers’ desktops by a vocal minority, estimated by Schiller to be less than 1 percent of the population who purchased nanos, some of whom banded together on a website set up by a disgruntled customer (Registration required): [Read the rest]