My grandson left his Ipod here because it is locked up for 22,714,766 minutes. Why would a company make a device that would do such a thing and how is it undone?

My grandsonl left his IPod here because it locked up for 22,714,750 minutes. Why would a company make a device that does such a thing? I understand these are not cheap. How is this fixed? To me  this is an ignorant thing for a company to do if it wants to make money. I will never buy such a thing that would lock up for 43 years.

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