The details are on Apple’s support site. See iPod Nano 1st Generation Recall info.

You many not have gotten the email notice if you received your Nano as a gift, or bought it second-hand. So, dig around in your stuff. If you have an iPod Nano that looks like this, or similar, but black, your unit may qualify.

Good job on this, Apple! Very few companies would replace a product that old even if it was possible to catch fire. Also good news for Apple, my original Nano is still working fine, and I’m kind of reluctant to give it up. I always thought the design was beautiful. I’ll be happy if I just get another one of these — as you might be able to see, mine has some smashed pixels on the screen.

Update December 16: It took a while, but I finally got the return shipment box. Turnaround is advertised as 6 weeks, and I will miss my Nano.

However, Flash is an aging, proprietary, non-standard, cycle-stealing, insecure piece of bloatware whose primary function seems to be to push irritating ads at web surfers. I generally surf the web with Flash entirely blocked. The only time I miss it is on certain sites which use flash for video, such as YouTube, which is probably the best application of flash on the web. Since the iPhone already has a dedicated YouTube App, the primary thing you are missing is a bunch of very annoying ads. This doesn’t seem like a problem to me.

Apple has frequently been innovative in what it includes and does not include in its computer systems. Apple was first to introduce the 3.5″ floppy disk, and the first to leave it out when its time had passed. Apple was also the first to drop the parallel port and RS-232 serial port. These were superseded by ADB and now by USB. Apple was quick to drop built-in modems as the technology was eclipsed by Ethernet and WiFi.

In the same way, Flash’s time has come and gone. It’s going to be a little tougher with Flash, because Apple can’t do it alone. Flash has become entrenched as a de-facto standard. Apple is leading the way, but others need to follow.

A true open standard for video and animation on the web is possible. HTML 5 eliminates the need for Flash. YouTube already is allowing users to beta-test HTML 5 delivery of videos. People are seeing noticeably lower CPU load while playing HTML 5 videos compared to Flash.

-Jamie