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At least apple have made it a little cheaper now. Its much cheaper now, but we still pay about twice what the cost here!
Not around too often!
Old...like...2 years old?
This thing actually makes me angry, the way without even doing any research further than going on what one person said on the telephone, he went out and criminally damaged property.
If he'd bothered to look into it further, without going off on a Michael Moore power trip, he would have noticed that all lithium ion batteries degrade, and that since he bought his iPod they have released 2 further generations, each with an improved battery.
What makes me even more angry is that he won some award for this stupid film.
I think the point is, is that its not replaceable unless you pay some stupidly high
repair price.
Its also 1 and a half years old. Say you bought a car for £10,000 and your tyres go bald
and you can only get them replaced if you send the car off and pay nearly what you paid
for it in the first place. Im sure you wouldnt be very impressed.
1,000 charge cycles is about what you'd expect. Anything less is poor.Originally Posted by Norky
Apple wanted the cost of a new one to replace a battery, thats what your misisng, regardless of if its just one discruntled employee telling people that, he has a right to be pissed.
He has no write to go vandalising things.
Hmm i think i'm going to start a "if there has to be a Microsft, aren't you glad its them not apple" campain.
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Those are fly posters. Vandalism? Criminal Damage? I think not.
I think he was more pissed at botching his 3rd party battery installation and killing his iPod
Riiiiiiiiight.
I do a fair bit of freelance design work, mostly with micros, my analouge electronics isn't that good, but my work with low end micro's is, now, if i said to someone, i want the price of it as new, because i gave you a crap battery, they'd be pissed.
nothing to do with the fact they botched the replace. The fact it fails in the first place is wrong. Let me guess your an apple fan boy?
iPods are used in a lot of universities electronic engineering lecturers for 2nd years as "what not to do". They are TERRIBLE.
Apple has a history of this level of oversight, take how easy it is to kill most apple's cd trays by putting in a macrovision CD.
you have a right to be pissed off i think. But i think i can see were your comming from:
The apple logo should of been enough of a warning, you went ahead and bought it anyway, so you deserved to lose ur money?
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Agreed. I am among a group of friends who will go to all costs to avoid Apple. I am just still upset about the fact that are no more NPods.
They made a point, but they could have probably done it in a better way. The fact that in the interviews they confirmed that they actually love Apple is just wrong, especially after their poor customer service. Are iPods brainwashing their users? Methinks so.
That video is at least a year old now. Apple have changed their policy since then and now battery replacements cost between $69 to $99.
My iPod is 2 years old now and even after using it every day the battery is still going strong.
but its made by apple.
Twigman
Apple don't make optical drives.
seen it before, still very good. i would still get ipod even after i seen this video. specialy new ipod nano.
*takes aim*
I hate apple with reason:
The classic issue with macrovision cd's killing certain macs.
They didn't make the opticals, but they made the computer, apple claim they lock people in so restricivly to control the experiance from beging to end. As such you would of thought allowing the emergency eject pin that exists on the laptop drive, which was been used in desktops (hmm speedy) would of been an important design concern. No.
Allowing the bios to continue to load an OS, when an "un-recognised" cd is in the tray. Rather than endlessly try to boot it. Yes, that would of made sense.
But apple don't really spend such money and time on thinking what you should make their own hardware do, when the un-expected happen.
Thats a classic example of why apple are SO bad. With a locked down hardware platform, that has been so badly designed. To get that CD out, you'd need to send it off for service, or invalidate your warenty.
pion:When i rule the world, people like you won't be allowed to vote or drive.
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I would vote for you Animus hahaha. Bring on the revolution
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