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Apple Replaces B/W White iPods with Color Screens

Posted by timothy on from the bring-on-the-speculation dept.

FlameboyC11 writes "A quick check at the Apple online store shows no sign of the black-and-white screened 'white' iPods. The iPod Photo has replaced them in the 20GB and 60GB categories, but is keeping the same price scale ($300 for low end and $400 for high end). This seems like such a quick switch to color, perhaps a video player is coming faster than we think?"

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  1. Re:Nope by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Oh, and DAMN IT ALL. I just had my iPod serviced and they replaced it with the equivalent 4th gen. Guess you can't always win ;)

    You mean your iPod irrepairable failed and had to be replaced?

    Every single portable audio device I have ever owned (an ancient Sony walkman, a Technics portable CD player and a Diamond Rio 64MB MP3 player) all still work perfectly. They've been absolutely bulletproof and I've not had a single failure. If one of them had failed on me, I would have immediately switched brands to a competitor.

    So tell me - why are iPods so popular given their abysmal reliability? A friend of mine is now on his fourth iPod - after all the others failed - and he still loves it. I simply do not understand the appeal. Why? Is it product lock-in because you rented DRM'ed music from iTunes? Is it simply because you don't like Apple's competitors or what?