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And your 18 months figure comes from . . . ???????

See post #1.

Surely you're not assuming that the Neistat brothers' experience is typical and usual?

I have no reason to doubt that it's atypical. I have several friends have experienced identical circumstances with their iPods.

Several posters to this thread have said they've gotten more than 18 months and their iPod is still going strong.

That's nice. If you're depending on luck to prevent calamity, you deserve what you get.

Apple has posted a number of tips that can help the battery keep going longer; I suppose these can be referred to as best practices.

That was good of them. A better alternative would have been to make the battery easily replaceable without surgery. Oddly enough, I can remove the battery from my cell phone by pushing a single button. Jobs built guaranteed obsolescence into the iPod BY DESIGN. You Mac-heads may flip for whatever Jobs shovels at you, but I don't find that an admirable design principle.

Come on, you're not jealous just 'cause Apple is more successful than you, are you? They've been selling a boatload of iPods, that's for sure.

Not at all. I own a mpio MP3 player. It only has 256MB but that's plenty to keep me entertained on my little 50 mile bike rides.

When it's Microsoft that corners the market, you cheer wildly, but when Apple comes on strong, you're on their heels like a jackal. Strange, that

Actually, I'm not in favor of any company cornering any market. Competition is good. You'd think that Jobs and company would welcome RealNetworks and others into the digital music selling business for the iPod. But, no, Apple wants to be the sole DRM-provided music source.

"Actually, I'm not in favor of any company cornering any market. Competition is good. You'd think that Jobs and company would welcome RealNetworks and others into the digital music selling business for the iPod. But, no, Apple wants to be the sole DRM-provided music source."

The latest compatiblity charts show the creative, i-river and rio players are compatible with most any service. Too bad the pod firmware is so restricted and incompatible or I would be tempted to buy one myself.

http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-6490_7-5140299.html?tag=dir.comp