True, many don't, but now that you've got me reading:
It's not only the fact that the Zen broke so quickly, but the fact that Creative does not back it's product for very long (60 days!) shows that they don't trust their own products to work. Don't buy it!!!Pretty damning (60-day vs. 1-year warranty, another iPod plus). And then there's this:
It's not well-suited for athletic activity, and don't even think about what happens when you drop it. I broke my first one when it fell out of my purse, and I've managed to scramble the disk drive one other time. Fortunately, it was still within warranty.The iPod has technology that prevents hard drive damage in case of sudden acceleration (e.g., dropped), and this is a common cause of battery cover breakage on any device (this from someone who's broken the battery cover on many phones and Walkmans). But let's keep going: Most battery cover complaints are about the Muvo, another Creative Nomad. But back to you point of the Zen. How about a CNet review.
When i got hone and opened the pakage for the new player its battery cover poped off and would not go back on. I was pissed so i retured that one too and got my money back.Or from Amazon
I got this Christmas 2003 and after the warranty had expired in July, a circuit blew and the screen stopped working. The cover ALWAYS pops off.Problems with covers, in addition to other fun stuff I saw indicating shoddy construction, poor design, and bad tonal quality. Why do you waste my time?The upper right hand corner was coming off, for some reason, I think it started when I lifted the cover to put in the battery, and it didn't attach.
BTW, a lot of other brands, including Samsung, have battery cover complaints. All solved by simply not having one in the first place.
You are a funny person. I went to the same site and look what I found written about the Ipod:
That being said, it is a great product until it no longer works. I would recommend that anyone considering purchasing this product go to take a look at Apple's site, in particular the support section. It details many of the issues that frequently occur with this product, offers several lengthy steps to take to correct the problems (none of which worked for me), all of which result in a headache, an expensive repair bill, and the ever existing question of when it is going to break (of freeze up) again.
I owned an IPOD 20 GB player for 6 months. During this time the mp3 player froze on me numerous times. Several times this issue could be resolved by letting the battery die down completely (which takes about a day) or by resetting the IPOD which unfortunately causes you to lose all of the files you have downloaded on it. What a pain! Not a reliable piece of equipment at all.
Pretty damning, the Ipod cost so much more but it breaks all the time
There is no reason in the world why you would want to buy such a substandard project. I hate these stupid things so much. I have owned and used five of them, and five out of five times they broke, and Apple would not repair them, for any fee. How did they break, you might ask? Beats me. Sure, I might have dropped them once or twice, as would be expected with anything that you're out and about with, but even before that, they would freeze up randomly, be glitchy, mess up, slow down for no reason and a bunch of other annoying crap.
My GOSH! This person has owned 5 and all of them broke. How can Apple sell this device for so much if is so substandard. Clearly Apple will be going out of business in the next few months
I just want everyone to know that if anything happens to your Ipod that is not a manufacturers defect Apple will not repair it at any price.
Good Golly - a substandard and terrible support
If your hard-drive breaks just like mine after one year, you will get to hear this for the first time. Two of the apple reps told me "You'd better buy our protection plan for your new one!" On top of that they said "Or you can REPLACE yours by another "refurbished" unit for $250!" After all an iPod is a circuitry with a hard-drive. By having NO repair service after the warranty, does it mean that their fancy circuitry has no value at all?
You spend way more for an Ipod and it only lasts a year and all Apple can say is go pound sand.
No, I don't believe all the conclusion I just made. I was just pointing out how nonsensical it is to base your opinion on a few strategically chosen Internet reviews. You can find a bad review on the Internet for nearly every product ever created.