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Jobs Responds to Greenpeace FUD
EccentricAnomaly writes "Steve Jobs has posted a response on the Apple homepage to the Greenpeace Green My Apple campaign in which he basically makes a case for the Greenpeace campaign being a heaping pile of FUD. On one hand, you could say that Greenpeace shouldn't expect a company that has spent years battling Microsoft to just roll over. On the other, it looks like Apple is agreeing to do most of what Greenpeace has been demanding."
Tell you what, mate. The way you mistreat wallabies and pademelons is outright revolting — and it has a direct connection to what we are discussing here...
Assuming we accept the need to cull them occasionally to keep the numbers down, this can be done humanely. However, various tree-huggers made such a nuissance out of it, that the poor creatures are no longer instantly killed. Instead, they are often coralled (fenced) off into small areas, where they die slowly from thirst and hunger.
That's how devastating the ill-effects of the radicals can be...
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
"The 18-month battery is a myth stemming from one person's bad experience: it is not a function of the design or manufacture of the iPod."
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What utter bullsh!t.
Do you like work for Apple or something?
It is common knowledge that iPods batteries loose their ability to power the device in an extremely short amount of time if regularly used. Many studies have consistently shown how quick the iPod breaks (some models at almost 30% within 1 year!!!!) and the fact that very few remain of the 1st generation is empirical proof of their numerous design flaws. Recent iPods are definitely better in terms of reliability but still have a comparatively high failure rate.
The Wikipedia article quotes many good sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPod#Reliability_and