you wrote:
"If large market-share means more problems, where are all the viruses attacking iPods?"
This statement is wrong. The reason there are no problems with itunes and the ipod especially is that all the ipod does is read data ( an mp3). Viruses being executables (.exe or whatever apple uses) cannot be executed on an ipod. The ipod software tries to read the file and assumes its corrupted
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