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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."
Are you a purveyor of FUD, or just a consumer of it who decided this one time to pass it on to others? Long before Apple began offering it's battery replacement program, you could buy a battery from a third party and replace it your self.
Of course, finding this information requires searching google. That might be beyond you.
It's not offtopic, dumbass. It's orthogonal.
and all that just for hte reason that they wanted to use a wheel interface? please, this have to stop. the reason we got from farmers and lords to the world we have today was the fact that someone came up with an idea then someone else "borrowed" it and made it available at a lower cost. phillips got started makeing cheap lightbulbs.
these days its more like a trench war, someone comes up with an idea and packs a ton of patents, copyrights and trademarks around it and if you get anywhere close they release the lawyers.
apple is like disney, they go after anyone that looks like they are makeing a similar product. if you want to get hardware to make a computer that can run the aplle os you will run into a wall of exclusive dealership contracts and whats not. sure its a BSD kernel but both what it runs on and whats on top of it are closely controled by apple.
aplle is definetly a cult, and jobs is the head priest. im just waiting for him to declare yihad or that everyone should take a overdoes of sleeping pills on some date as then the aliens willcome and take them to nirvana.
no, give me a amd cpu and a variation of linux or some BSD, those only care about makeing a better wheel, not about how the aura about it is...
comment first, facts later. http://chem.tufts.edu/AnswersInScience/RelativityofWrong.htm