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iPod's Dirty Little Secret?

HarryKeogh

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jeez, i hope the claim this video makes (ipod's non replaceable battery only lasts 18 months) isn't the norm. mine's a few months old. though i can say the claim of 8 hours playback on a full charge is complete B.S. Lucky if i get 51/2-6 hours.

http://www.ipodsdirtysecret.com/
 
Well, I bought the original model of iPod, and it's still going fine on the original battery.

Furthermore, the battery is easily replaceable, and you can buy replacement batteries lots of places. Come on, people, how hard is it to do a three-second Goodle search? There's even a whole web site called www.ipodbattery.com! This is not rocket science.
 
epepke said:
Come on, people, how hard is it to do a three-second Goodle search? There's even a whole web site called www.ipodbattery.com! This is not rocket science.
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why must you always belittle me in front of my friends? you did the same thing at my office xmas party, teasing me in front of my boss and that blabbermouth secretary of his. you may think it's funny, but it hurts.

it really hurts.
 
But you do know about the self-destruct feature that kicks in at 20 months don't you?
 
I thought the ipods dirty little secret was that it overpriced for its storage space and features compared to other devices.

Ohhhh, that isn't bad enough and people have to find other reasons to dislike them. Go figure.
 
corplinx said:
I thought the ipods dirty little secret was that it overpriced for its storage space and features compared to other devices.
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Bah, you are just jealous of people who have one, e.g. ME :D

Zee
 
corplinx said:
I thought the ipods dirty little secret was that it overpriced for its storage space and features compared to other devices.

Ohhhh, that isn't bad enough and people have to find other reasons to dislike them. Go figure.
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overpriced? bah!

obviously you don't realize it comes with earphones!!!
 
HarryKeogh said:


overpriced? bah!

obviously you don't realize it comes with earphones!!!
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And, every time you synch it with iTunes, it sends fan email to Steve Jobs. That kind of thing costs money, eh?

I waaaant one...

did
 
I can't say that I'm terribly impressed with the film, or its point.

Like any good ad copy, the reported battery life of ten hours is somewhat exaggerated, much like a car's mileage estimates ("your mileage may vary.") If you listen to the iPod too loud, have the backlight on and continually switch back and forth between songs and playlists, of course the battery is going to drain faster. If you listen to it at a low level and let it play continuously without changing anything, you'll probably get close to about eight hours. But, honestly, where's the fun in that? Ever since I've had my iPod (almost two years), the battery life was an issue for only a short amount of time, which was just before Apple released a software update early this year, I believe, for the battery so it wouldn't die prematurely.

Insofar as other MP3 players having a longer battery life, more storage capacity, a better price, etc., I can only say: the market has spoken. There has to be a reason why the iPod is outselling them all by a wide margin, even though Apple has such a small market share.

And if the filmmakers are so against overpriced, overhyped hardware and software and the greedy sonsabitches who force them to buy their stuff, why did they make their movie on a Mac?

Start the revolution without me, lads, and wake me when it's over.

Michael
 
a_unique_person said:
If you read the instructions for what it takes to replace the battery, it's not that straight forward. Definitely not for the average consumer, like, for example, with your standard Digital Camera.
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I can remember when all drug stores had tube testers and sold vacuum tubes. Average consumers didn't seem to have much trouble with those. Nor do they any more have much trouble with changing light bulbs in their houses, even now.

At least for the original iPod with the chrome back, the procedure is this:

1) Pull the back off with your fingers (it's friction fit).
2) Unplug the old battery
3) Plug in the new battery
4) Push the back on

I took apart my iPod the third day I owned it and unplugged the battery. I wanted to see how it would deal with a hard reset. It was fine. The little Fujitsu disk drive in that sucker is not that much thicker than a credit card. How they manufacture the bearings and have the motor work properly, I have no idea. When it eventually goes belly-up, I look forward to taking it apart.

Yes, Apple should probably have made it even easier to replace the battery, but as it is, it's not like it's the end of the world. At worst, people would have to pay a jeweler or electronics store ten bucks to replace it, just as they do with their digital watches.
 
a_unique_person said:
If you read the instructions for what it takes to replace the battery, it's not that straight forward. Definitely not for the average consumer, like, for example, with your standard Digital Camera.
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AUP:

Are you implying that Apple does a crappy job of providing reasonable usage and maintenance documentation of its products? I'll have you know that the last 3 iMacs and recent G5 purchases all came with huge, big, thick owner's manua......er... really, really long PDF's on the installation CD's conveniently positioned underneath the bottom fitted styrofoam packing thingy that nobody would overlook and throw away by accident or something. And besides, I'm sure that even if you did throw the CD in the trash because you were excited and forgot to check all the freakin packaging, I'm sure Apple has a Knowledge Base article somewhere on its website. So there.
 
Ah yes, manuals on CD.

"If I could make the blasted machine start, I wouldn't need to read the manual :D
 
epepke said:
Furthermore, the battery is easily replaceable, and you can buy replacement batteries lots of places.
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http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3764981/

from the article...

Some of the e-mail the Neistat Brothers received from "iPod's Dirty Secret" came from people who were quick to tell them "that we're [bleep]ing imbeciles, [because] you can buy a battery online and do it yourself," Casey says.

The brothers already tried that.

They Googled around and ordered the battery from a different vendor that came with complicated instructions and "these two plastic gigantic toothpicks," Casey says. It took a while to pry the back cover off the iPod's impenetrable design. Beneath that was "a gummy adhesive" which covered the mini hard drive, "and there were these two very tiny connectors with three prongs," in a work space "about the diameter of a needle."

He felt as if he was performing amateur neurosurgery.

The patient died on the table.

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i hope it's easier to change on the new iPods. the good news (i guess) is apple offers a $99 replacement battery mail in service now.
 
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