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Washington Post Covers iPod Battery Ruckus
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 $99 replacements.
This is exactly what Apple does to all of its customers. My G4 cube had that stupid fracture, and my iBook's power supply connector kept breaking. Apple pretty much told me to fuck off, so I sold all my Apple crap, and switched to the PC. Apple should be called the Impersonal Computer.
Lamer, I'm not sure what that is, but it sounds like an operator error. Can you be more specific? I'd really like to know what a "stupid fracture" is.
switched to the PC
Hmmm, good quality there. Well, good enough, but have you ever heard of bad capacitors on a Mac? All a google search turned up for me was an air station example where Apple admitted to the problem and replaced the thing out of warranty in less than two days. No PC maker I've heard of was spared the bad capacitor problem and some big dumb ones still get burnt.
That being said, I run crappy x86 hardware myself. If all I was had was one computer, like most normal people who hate computers in general, I'd have a Mac. But I don't, I pull PeeeCeees from the trash because even crappier software made them useless to their owners. Ha ha ha ha. Free software makes them sing again.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
"If you want to get back at a company that screwed you over, don't turn around and give them $400."
And yet the geek crowd drools over Firefly and LOTR, even though we hate the MPAA.
That is probably why, even those mexicans aren't cheaper than chineese for $6/day.
Liberty freedom are no1, not dicks in suits.
No..See you notebook lithium battery is a LOT BIGGER BATTERY. the battery in the ipod is lithium but guess what SO ARE MOST CELL PHONE BATTERIES NOW!!! Common people...Apple designed it this way...you were dumb enough to buy it now deal with it. Seems like to me Mr. Jobs is a friggin genius...cause he just bilked those people into buying a device that must either be serviced for a profit or replaced with a similar newer device ..... genius i say genius.
No thanks....1 more reason why open standards are better then Apple
. I love the sound of burning women and screaming rubber....
I support your absolute demand that Apple follow up on its sale of a (non-defective, but worse than expected) product.
Now, how many of the people who are upset at Apple for selling a disappointing product are equaly upset at the Iraqi invasion ? We were led to believe to expect more from the invasion, and for it to have a cleaner, shorter end.
I see lots of people pissed off at Apple over some batteries, yet few are equally pissed at more important issues that fundamentally impact people's lives. This is what happens when citizens turn into consumers, and people lose their values in search of materialistic goods.
Go ahead, mod this down as a troll. You all know (a) it's no troll (b) it'ss heartfelt and (c) it provides perspective over this debate over dead batteries.
..... You don't reasearch very well Point 4 is COMPLETLEY false IPOD will work On windows and MAC and I'm pretty sure I saw a linux sync utility too. as for #3 It's marketed as an MP3 player not an OGG or FLAC player so STFU As for 1 and 2 That's BS Failures are in the minority I've owned my share of Apple products and never had a hardware failure and neither have any of the people I know who use Apple products. And I'm not some mac junkie either I Have 1XP Desktop 1Windows 2000 pro desktop, a SPARC Workstation running Solaris 9, A Gentoo Linux Server and an Ibook Running OS 10.3 . So don't claim I'm biased
fluidic batter
Is that kind of like "fluidic space"?
Or more the pancake variety?
Used or refurbished. Not quite the same as "new or refurbished."
They put your iPod in a LIFO repair queue, and possibly take a repaired dinged one off the end of the queue. You lose your collection of Einsturzende Neubaten but possibly gain a hard drive full of Nugent.
--Pat / zippy@cs.brandeis.edu
Well, then you should have bought a DELL - Ooops, same thing.
Lars T.
To the guy who modded me down from perfect to terrible Karma - Apple haters still suck
And I've had it for over two weeks now. See the proof?
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