Let’s hope so. I have six ipods and one iPad that are useless to me. A waste of hundreds of dollars. Then again that is the business model for Apple.
Sorry to be cynical. But I have earned the right.
Every one of those can have their batteries replaced fairly inexpensively. There are usually services that will do it for you. Check out a local yellow page app. Apple's business model is not to sell you new batteries, or new models because the batteries fail. It is to upgrade the speed and functionality to make it a desirable upgrade so you want to buy a new one and sell or hand down your old one.