Posted on 02/26/2005 6:29:14 AM PST by 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/
You know, Ipod users seem to be very selectively inept. On the one hand, Ipods are great because of how easy they are supposed to be to use - all of the other alternatives out there are just too dang hard to work with. But when there's a battery problem, everyone is supposed to be able to handle it all of a sudden.
Still Zip disks to transfer data from home to work---mainly because I hate burning CDs.
That said, ClickDeath cost me a bit of money a few years back.
You hate burning CD's? Why?
It is legal, fast and fun to do, you get to peruse your music. I did about 250 CD's in a couple of days.
I am tellin' you,,it is more fun than a bride doll.
You are an angel you bad bad boy!
You can work around that, though. As I pointed out in #86, one way to do this is to burn the non-iTunes tracks to a CD and then rerip them into your iTunes library. It's a bit of a pain, but it does work.
Other players won't accept the AAC tracks you purchase from the iTunes store either. I honestly think that this has as much to do with the manufacturers and the music services putting in enough basic anti-piracy protection to convince the record labels to continue letting them sell digital music, as it has to do with forcing consumers to only shop at their sites.
I hate the idea of wasting 690+ mb of potential space just to burn a 10 meg file---especially a file I'll only use once.
And a zip disk is still faster than CDRW.
Apple may charge $100.00, but you can apparently get a new one for $30.00 (see post 9 and follow the links).
So much music, so little time.
Itunes really has allowed me to appreciate much more music than listening using cds.
That is what the poster claims. How accurate are his claims (I don't know, just want to know)?
Pretty amazing you can now get a 2Mb Sd card, eh?
It amazes me and I have been in tech for 25+ years!!
Yep, there was that, too.
You again. Yup...I am amazed daily at the 1GB (i think that's what you meant anyway 'GB') sd card in my treo....when I remember getting a sweet deal on a huge 40mg external drive for several hundred dollars and wondering what I would fill it with - think that was about 1989.
I do it in reverse as well. I'll burn Itune's purchases to CD's and then download them to my cheapy 128mb MP3 player I use when I'm doing something active like bicycling.
I give, you're older.
I used to program, for real, on those things.
Used paper tape, kept object decks, saw Drum storage.
God, I feel old.
My first machine in 1992 was a 20 MHz Packard Bell 386SX with 128K of RAM and a "huge" 100 MB hard drive. It seems like such a toy compared to what computers are now days, but everything I learned about PCs I learned on that box, tinkering with it and upgrading it until it was time to step up. I remember many a night cruising the AOL message boards and the local BBSs with the state of the art 14.4k modem I installed in it.
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