Shame On You: The Apple iPod

CBS 2 New York ^ | Arnold Diaz

[finnman69]

Shame On You: The Apple iPod
Battery Replacement Problems Are Creating Problems

Feb 25, 2005 3:00 pm US/Eastern

NEW YORK (CBS) The Apple iPod is one of the most popular consumer electronic products in history. Thus far, 10 million have been sold to music lovers.

But you may be surprised to learn what happens when the battery on the iPod dies.

Our Shame On You team reports that battery replacement problems are making some people irate over the iPod. See why Arnold Diaz puts Apple in the Hall of Shame.

Video at the link

Here: is the link to the movie referrred to at the video story:
http://www.ipodsdirtysecret.com/

[Musket]

I think you're silly, but whatever. I just wish I had a nickel for every minute I've spent in the past 3 years scanning my windows boxes for malware, viri and installing and configuring software and hardware to keep these boxes secure.

I know how much I would get for doing same on my Macs. About 10 cents in 12 years.

[chudogg]

Ever buy a new battery for a cell phone or computer?

Nope.

[chudogg]

Are you saying your sony doesn't have a hard drive on board like the ipod?

Hard Drives have limits, thus how many songs it can hold.

[Petronski]

That's non-responsive.

Does your sony have a hard drive? Which medium is used to store the music?

[Swordmaker]

Does your battery powered Sony Walkman say not to open it?

Does your Sony Walkman have a RECHARGEABLE barrery??? Or do you have to buy replacements frequently.

Does your battery powered TV remote say not to open it?

Same question...

[add925]

I think you're silly.

Now, now...discussions are fine....name calling is not very nice....the Master of the Zot is always lurking.

Macs are great for certain things, they're just not great for my type of thing.

Does make you wonder why so many virus authors have attacked the Eeevil Windows OS......hmmmmmmm could be that there's more of it, or written poorly, or is open architecture...or could be that Microsoft is considered the Devil?

Don't know the answer to that, but I have my suspicions.

[Swordmaker]

What no one has brought up here is that do-it-yourself ipod battery replacement VOIDS the ipod warranty. Feh.

Er, Company Man, what iPod waranty is it that is still in effect 18 or more months later? If you paid for Applecare for your iPod, Apple will replace the battery for free under Applecare.

[orangelobster]

"Thanks, but it's OK."

I don't know about that. Now I have this loser savedbygrace cyber stalking me on another thread. You'll probably get the same treatment. priceless.

[NYC GOP Chick]

This video has been circulating for quite some time. I put it in the same category with the Zip Drive "Click Death" issue. It's really hard to tell how much of this has been driven by motivated parties creating fear campaigns, and how much is really a sincere consumer issue.

FWIW, the first ZIP drive I bought had the Click of Death right out of the box.

[NYC GOP Chick]

The fact that the i-pod firmware blocks all other major music websites other than i-tunes also indicates that they are trying to create a monopoly for online music distribution. monopoly=more cash for Apple. "think different" indeed.

It's not a problem. I take MP3s that I've bought elsewhere and just do the drag'n'drop into my iTunes library.

[freedumb2003]

I never got a Zipdrive --- I was somehow able to wait until the new HD/usb technology came of age.

[rwilson99]

I'm just bitter that my Macintosh computer was never compatible with the illegal shareware sites. You're probably right.

I had an Macintosh laptop that lasted 7 years. In that time, I borrowed PC laptops for specific activities, and both blew up the mother boards while I had them. I swear... I did nothing wrong... I think.

[NYC GOP Chick]

This has been known for a long time. The charge to replace the batteries is about $250. Only Apple can do so.

Well, no. If you send it back to Apple, it costs $99 -- but there are ways to do it yourself for far less money.

[NYC GOP Chick]

My second one was just fine and even though I rarely use it anymore (although I did use it frequently while working at my previous job, taking my freelance files back and forth between there and home), it works fine.

[John Lenin]

It's pretty hard to blow up a motherboard, a power supply yes, that usually means you got old wiring with no ground and lots of power spikes on your power grid.

[rwilson99]

The same old wiring with no ground and a 6 plug spike strip that blew up the PC mother boards has never done nothing to my Macintosh.

Superior construction I guess.

[avenir]

"If you paid for Applecare for your iPod, Apple will replace the battery for free under Applecare."

Price: $59 (F.Y.I.)

[John Lenin]

I challenge you to a game of Quake II. I'll go easy on you ...

[CFC__VRWC]

FWIW, the first ZIP drive I bought had the Click of Death right out of the box.

I used to use Zip drives a lot to move large files between my office PC and my home PC, and never had that problem with them. The only problem I did have was that they were so SLOW, especially the parallel port drive I had on the office machine (I had an IDE model for my home box). At any rate, I don't use them any more at all. I bought a 256 MB USB flash drive to carry files back and forth now, and for really big files I just burn CDs.

[Sofa King]

I had a zip drive. Never had any problems with it, but at $10 a disk it priced itself out of being useful.