Article: With 100 million units sold, fixing iPods is one great gig.(NEWS)

Byline: Allie Shah; Staff Writer

From his basement in Granite Falls, Minn., 21-year-old Blake Paulson uses a paper clip and other pry tools to operate on scores of iPods sent to him from around the country. Some have worn-out hard drives. Others have broken screens. And then there was that iPod that fell into the toilet. "I used gloves for that one," Paulson says. His online business, ifixipodsfast.com, is part of a booming new industry: third-party iPod repair. Apple commands 72 percent of the market share for portable MP3 players and has sold more than 100 million iPods since 2001. The product's popularity and Apple's limited warranty policy, plus iPods' ...

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