i'm sorry. but
a) the batteries clearly aren't worth $100 if a competitor can sell them for $50 and make a profit.
b) mass production. i'll bet the farm my 10gB ipod cost apple less than $300 to make.
c) I by no means overused the ipod battery, and i strongly feel that the battery was defective. you really mean to say that if you buy a portable mp3 player, you should reasonably expect to replace the battery in less than a year? i've had devices I've used for several years without replacing the rechargeable battery. If every customer had my experience you wouldn't see so many rave reviews of the ipod. The batteries that failed in my iPod, and in many others, were defective.
I don't understand why everyone is so quick to jump to Apple's defense. If you are paying $400 or more for a music player, you shouldn't have to pay another $100 every year to replace the freaking battery. I started having battery probs with my 10GB second gen. model a few weeks after i bought it. the replacement they eventually sent me (it took more than a month.) crapped out a few months later. and apparently that's all you get for $400. Two broken ipods and a years worth of headaches.
If I had known the batteries would die so soon I wouldn't have bought an ipod in the first place. It was a really big financial sacrifice in the first place which i justified because music is my life and i thought i was buying the greatest device ever. But even $50 dollars is too much for me to spend right now, and i'm afraid i'll just get another bad battery.
$400 is a hell of a lot of money, and it should buy you a product that works for longer than a year. I feel like I deserve a better solution.
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it's interesting how the technologies of voice replication and voice recognition are so similar. The recording studio where I work recently participated in a project for the developers of a voice controlled navigation system (think OnStar). Our task was to record people born and raised in Chicago dictating a long list of words which would presumably use at least most of the phonemes at our disposal. I think they did this in most major metropolises. The goal was to build a system that could recognize english speech patterns with a wide colloquial variance. Perhaps it won't be long before we have a program that can emulate anyone's voice.
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i'm sorry. but a) the batteries clearly aren't worth $100 if a competitor can sell them for $50 and make a profit. b) mass production. i'll bet the farm my 10gB ipod cost apple less than $300 to make. c) I by no means overused the ipod battery, and i strongly feel that the battery was defective. you really mean to say that if you buy a portable mp3 player, you should reasonably expect to replace the battery in less than a year? i've had devices I've used for several years without replacing the rechargeable battery. If every customer had my experience you wouldn't see so many rave reviews of the ipod. The batteries that failed in my iPod, and in many others, were defective.
I don't understand why everyone is so quick to jump to Apple's defense. If you are paying $400 or more for a music player, you shouldn't have to pay another $100 every year to replace the freaking battery. I started having battery probs with my 10GB second gen. model a few weeks after i bought it. the replacement they eventually sent me (it took more than a month.) crapped out a few months later. and apparently that's all you get for $400. Two broken ipods and a years worth of headaches. If I had known the batteries would die so soon I wouldn't have bought an ipod in the first place. It was a really big financial sacrifice in the first place which i justified because music is my life and i thought i was buying the greatest device ever. But even $50 dollars is too much for me to spend right now, and i'm afraid i'll just get another bad battery. $400 is a hell of a lot of money, and it should buy you a product that works for longer than a year. I feel like I deserve a better solution.
it's interesting how the technologies of voice replication and voice recognition are so similar. The recording studio where I work recently participated in a project for the developers of a voice controlled navigation system (think OnStar). Our task was to record people born and raised in Chicago dictating a long list of words which would presumably use at least most of the phonemes at our disposal. I think they did this in most major metropolises. The goal was to build a system that could recognize english speech patterns with a wide colloquial variance. Perhaps it won't be long before we have a program that can emulate anyone's voice.