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iPod's Two-Year Anniversary
the terminal of Geoff Goodfellow writes "Two years ago this month, Apple Computer released a small, sleek-looking device it called the iPod. This Sunday's New York Times Magazine has a long article on it: The Guts of a New Machine."
Has anyone seen the video of a guy who called about getting his battery replaced and they just told him it is cheaper to get a new iPod?
I cant find the link now, but if I do I will add it on.
I was just wondering if anyone has had similar experiences or know if the battery is easily replaced?
their batteries will be dead already...
No Norm, those are your safety glasses; I'll wear my own thanks...
Replacement batteries? $250 plus shipping: iPod's DIRTY little secret
Is a Slashdotter a reader or a writer? I slagged it off then and i'll slag it off now.
It's *still* too expensive - par for the course for apple. Because of the cost you can't just chuck it in your bag if you're going off somewhere - you have to think about wrapping it in a towel, making sure you don't leave it anywhere it could be stolen. If you have a diskman then you're not risking much if you lose/break/have it stolen, as they're really cheap and you can just take CD-R backups with you. If anything happens, you've lost some time, 2 UKP in CD-Rs and a 40-80 UKP diskman.
You can't take music off the thing, you need to make sure you don't get the wrong one as you can't use an Apple with the windows version and vice versa (for no good technical reason).
The design - why is this considered such a big deal? Its just a white box. Its the hardware and software guys who should be praised for whatever good you think of it, not the guy who scratched his chin and said `transparent blue....NO....no....this time make it.....white`.
Um.. hello mods.. the parent is NOT offtopic...
I think people should still take a look at this: ipodsdirtysecret
Amen
There is a fine line between being a cultivated citizen and being someone else's crop. - A. J. Patrick Liszkie
...none of them were built to still be running by the 2 year mark. There's an interesting bit of indie film making here (requires quicktime) on what looks like the 18 month shelf life of the non-replaceable battery in the iPod. There's some more information here. Brief quote: Brothers Casey and Van Neistat, who collaborate on video projects using Mac editing software, said they were told by a technical support representative at Apple Computer that the cost to replace the dead battery in an 18-month-old iPod would be $255--comparable to the cost of a new device. Irked at what seemed to be the early obsolescence of the music player, the brothers trekked around New York City stenciling the words "iPod's unreplaceable battery lasts only 18 months" on all the iPod posters they could find.
..and still more expensive than a lot of the competition. You'd think the price would go down over two years. The features are nice, the design is nice. But like all of Apple's hardware, it's just too expensive to justify the buy.
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