[artdutra04]

There was a time when I used to get the black Apple (it wasn't that often, but it was enough to remind me of Windows) on my Ipod Nano a while ago. It really bugged me, but I tracked it back to my former habit of not using the Eject iPod button. After I started using that button every time a few months ago, I've never had a single black Apple screen.

What it really comes down to is anything electronic can and will crash if you don't use it right. (Although from experience, I've found it harder in general to [un]intentionally crash Apple products.) Not properly disconnecting it from the computer, trying to do stupid things with it, etc. all help cause more crashes.

(That, and un-necessary feature/coding bloat also adds in more chances for crashing. It's like the KISS principal for robots. Sometimes it's hard to overlook the glamor of tens or hundreds of features in devices, when in the end you only use two or three of them.)