IPod Shuffle suddenly won't work

Hi all,
To all of you having troubles with your Shuffle.
I posted a few weeks ago about my Shuffle that stopped showing up on the Mac, in iTunes or anywhere else, then stopped charging.
I also said that I saw hundreds of posts on different forums about that problem, wich show up after about a year of use of a Shuffle.
Well, after having tried everything imaginable, I decided to declare my Shuffle useless. So I delicatly opened it. And I immediatly saw where the problem came from. The connection thread that links the usb plug to the iPod was broken, because of an inapropriate folding. I guess it's a construction defect.
See pictures there: http://web.mac.com/jm.oriot/iWeb/inge%26jm/iPodShuffle.html
I'm an Apple fan (and client) since more than 10 years and never experienced any problem at all with any hardware of software signed by Apple that I bought. This is the first time and though I'm very disapointed (and a bit angry) to see such a short life for an Apple product I still love Apple. But still... 109€ is not nothing for me. I expected more than a year of use.
The Shuffle was a great idea (so small, so light, so handy, so nice...) but apparently suffered a poor construction. So bad.
... sigh...

Okay, and thanks for re-posting your photos. I have to agree that it definitely does look like crimping and would expect any continuity checks run on it to show an open or two. That would certainly explain your symptoms, but it's not the answer for all such cases, i.e., BLD, being reported here.
I've now purchased two 'broken' Shuffle's on eBay, both coming off of M$ systems and reporting the blinkies. The first was Alive on Arrival and is still living happily on a daughter's eMac. The second was totally dead, with no reaction at all to anything I did; it's now disassembled, with no evidence of your crimping on the ribbon cable, while I mull over buying an LI battery and getting someone to solder it in for me.
In your place I'd certainly be taking my evidence to Apple and pointing out that, at the end of the day, it was just a matter of pure luck that it managed to last as long with this defect as it did. I think you should be able to convince them to give you some sort of satisfaction on this, but appreciate your desire not to go through the bother of it.

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