I read on the Huffpo today that Microsoft has supposedly installed "Amnesty Bins" in the Zune headquarters in which to toss your iPod!  (see visual reference 1.0 below). 

Good Idea! because gosh, you know, dumping a few older iPods (probably early gens with crashed hard drives) is going to go really far to increase the market share of that Zune thing.

This almost seems like an  urban legend  and may in fact turn out to be a hoax, but  it makes for a good excuse to rant. 

Visual reference 1.0