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Some of this is verbatim from a much older article... it looks and smells like FUD.
1 posted on 12/11/2006 11:41:34 PM PST by Swordmaker
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To: martin_fierro

iPod Fud


2 posted on 12/11/2006 11:42:12 PM PST by Swordmaker (Remember, the proper pronunciation of IE is "AAAAIIIIIEEEEEEE!)
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To: Swordmaker

How can you have FUD about the best selling product? WTF...


3 posted on 12/11/2006 11:49:13 PM PST by Echo Talon
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To: Jim Robinson
dang it Jim, I think I just did it again...
I think this is an Apple thread.. sorry in advance.
6 posted on 12/12/2006 12:02:34 AM PST by Echo Talon
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To: Swordmaker
My four year old iPod is real squirrelly about holding a charge. Sometimes it does and sometimes it doesn't. When it does, I can play it for about two hours before it needs a recharge. For about the first two years, it always held a charge, and lasted about six hours.
14 posted on 12/12/2006 1:12:38 AM PST by HisKingdomWillAbolishSinDeath (All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off; but the horns of the righteous shall be exalted.)
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To: Swordmaker
It like a cigarette lighter. After you wear it out, you get another one.
21 posted on 12/12/2006 3:16:03 AM PST by shuckmaster (An oak tree is an acorns way of making more acorns)
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To: Swordmaker
In some cases, problems are caused by users who accidentally drop their iPods or otherwise subject them to abuse

Interestingly, some iPods are pretty rugged even with that. The new Shuffle is very difficult to kill, surviving immersion, getting stepped on, and being dropped from a third-story balcony. They had to run it over with a car to finally kill it.

iPods (or any consumer devices) with high-res screens are not quite so durable, although the original nano could take a lot of abuse despite the scratch complaints.

25 posted on 12/12/2006 7:00:38 AM PST by antiRepublicrat
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To: Swordmaker

Sorry all, but IMO iPods are junk. Wonderful little devices when they work right, but I have had two go teats up after a little over a year - both from failures other than batteries (although one of them went bad too.)

Neither of them was ever handled with anything but TLC - never dropped, immersed or even allowed to get too hot or cold.

I'm sorry, but something that costs $400.00 shouldn't be a.) non-repairable and, b.) dying within a year to 14 months.

Apple's concept for their technology is far better than their execution.


30 posted on 12/12/2006 9:43:58 AM PST by SargeK
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31 posted on 12/12/2006 4:33:02 PM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: Swordmaker
it looks and smells like FUD

Not totally. Our I-Pod bought last year has had many of the problems described in this article. In particular we continue to have unexplained hard drive problems which Apple continues to tell us that nothing is wrong.

32 posted on 12/12/2006 5:38:52 PM PST by skateman (Bush good, demonrats bad.)
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To: Swordmaker
http://www.creative.com/
33 posted on 12/12/2006 5:41:55 PM PST by bmwcyle (McCain nomination assures a Hillary win)
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To: Swordmaker
Everybody is yip-yip-yapping about the iPod. All jealous about its success. Everybody wanting to tear iPod down.

And why? SO Zune can rise like a phoenix from Bill Gates' basement to claim the music-playing, playlist-shuffling throne?

Now I like Bill Gates as much as the next guy. Dorky looking glasses-wearing guy who got his butt kicked in high school corridors. And I loathe Steve Jobs like the other guy, arrogant snot who steals ideas from others and makes them his own.

But lets get down to platinum pins that you stick in wall maps in fancy offices here. The iPod kicks butt. There is nothing like spinning the scroll wheel to drill down to that Built To Spill tune you want to listen too. And nothing like shuffling your custom "Taco Bell" playlist of 432 songs and coming up with "Who Cares If My Pants Are Too Tight" by much heralded alternative rock band "The Flaming Dicks."

Not that I don't want Bill Gates and Microsoft to rule the entire world but I hope that when they do, they don't make me listen to a Zune and they let me listen to my iPod. They can have the world but just give me my iPod.

34 posted on 12/12/2006 6:31:58 PM PST by SamAdams76 (I am 5 days away from outliving Billie Holiday)
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