Came here to post the same. What a wacky assertion. Incidentally, I searched for "alan sugar ipod will die" (no quotes), and this page was the #1 Google result

Came here to post the same. What a wacky assertion. Incidentally, I searched for "alan sugar ipod will die" (no quotes), and this page was the #1 Google result. The IndiaTimes article was #3. That doesn't make me confident it was an accurate quote, either.