all original ipods (nano,shuffle,classic,touch,etc) made in the past several years are all made in china...ALL as in TANAN...
yes apple is an american company based in Cupertino, California.
apple only designs and markets the ipod but they dont make them.
its components are made by different companies.
ipods CPU are actually mostly made in korea.
ipods memory are made by samsung,toshiba,hitachi,segate,etc.
ipods audio chips were mostly made by an Scottish company and a few are made by cirrus logic an american company but also has their chips made in china/taiwan if im not mistaken.
but the ipod as a whole is built in china gyud as a finish product then shipped to the US and so forth.
thats why i said,
ipods are made in china but designed in California.
those of you who actually owns an original ipod you can check the box or the back of the unit itself...that information should be there...