Washington Post Covers iPod Battery Ruckus

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Washington Post Covers iPod Battery Ruckus

Posted by michael on Saturday December 20, 2003 @10:30AM from the disposable-world dept.

An anonymous reader sent in a link to 'Battery and Assault: When His iPod Died, This Music Lover Tackled Apple. Stay Tuned.' in the Washington Post. The article (good reading even if you're familiar with the situation) has Apple reps being rather callous about the issue - I think it's a fairly reasonable assumption that if you spend several hundred dollars on a gizmo, it shouldn't be "disposable". A replacement battery for my cell phone cost $10; one for my cordless phone cost $10; Apple is presumably making a good deal of money on their $99 replacements.

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fp by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-20 10:31 · Score: -1, Offtopic

fp for lunix fagz. apple=death.
huzzah by Staos · 2003-12-20 10:31 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Frist psaat

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IPOD for rich poeples anyway ;) by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-20 10:32 · Score: -1, Offtopic

First Post is an exploding IPOD.
In a nutshell. by keplon · 2003-12-20 10:38 · Score: 1, Offtopic

Basically, a group of college students have discovered the short life of IPOD's battery(approx. 200 hrs.) Washington Post has done a follow-up to the story, dismissing their false claims & stating (correctly) it is only ~150 hours.
Re:But... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-20 10:49 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I have an old old old 40MB IDE that is still running fine, but had a 80GB fail after only 14 months of usage. More modern drives are put under more modern stresses and are manufactured to more "close to the line" standars (i.e., failure inside 12 month warranty is not acceptable, but don't waste engineering making it last forever).
Re:Apple doesn't make batteries by kevcol · 2003-12-20 12:59 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Damn your .sig! I just dropped 20 minutes of my life down the shithole browsing the web, all because you had to have a sig that mentioned Gnip Gnop and I was forced to go and reminisce on old 70s toys!
Re:Sounds like the Dell DJ by IM6100 · 2003-12-20 13:37 · Score: 1, Offtopic

I just can't relate. Not at all. When I was a teenager I badly wanted an oscilloscope. What brand of clothing I wore was totally irrelevant.

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Re:Apple doesn't make batteries by mechugena · 2003-12-20 14:33 · Score: 0, Offtopic

At least he didn't mention the Fleet Footed Floomdorm, High Hopping Hoomdorm, Stretch Legged Stoomdorm, or Lurch Along Loomdorm!!
Ahhh...the 80's!!
Re:Apple doesn't make batteries by Alsee · 2003-12-20 17:36 · Score: -1, Offtopic

PP PP PS
I have to go pee-pee.

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Re:Apple doesn't make batteries by yotto · 2003-12-20 18:11 · Score: 0, Offtopic

What? First off, whoever modded you 'Inspiring' or whatever is an idiot. Secondly, we were not led to believe that the Iraqui invasion would be over quickly. One thing that Dubya said from the get-go was that this would be long, drawn out, and most people would not like it. It's the one thing he's gotten right. Thirdly, it has nothing to do about apple batteries and how poorly Ipods are designed, so, well, cram it.

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