Have any of you been reading these posts. Several of us have posted sites where you can order a battery and REPLACE it yourself. You people must be microshaft brainwashed to believe all these lies about the ipod. None of this junk is true. As one other person stated it is about as hard as replacing a cordless phone batter and certainly easier than replacing RAM in a PC. Can you do that?
The reason the 'lie' has been repeated so many times, it that it was true until people started to rasie crap about it. Sorry I did not read every post before replying, but these 'lies' were Apples fault in the first place.
Clearly it is true, or these people would not be bitching about their Ipods.
http://forksplit.blogspot.com/2005/02/hot-battery-problem.html
Make sure you read the comments at the end which almost universally roast Apple tech support (especially the long lines at Apple stores, the CBS video catches employees lying about egtting replacement Ipods). The best options seems to be people mailing their dead Ipods back and getting them replaced. There still seems to be controversy whether you get a new one or a a refurbished one (w/o your music)back.
Also true, is the guy in the CBS video who replaces the batter for $65 or so in 10 minutes. For those who are not technically able to do it themsleves this seems to be another option. But it's still $65 on top of the Ipods original purchase price.