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Originally Posted by Rekna
Of course people did know they couldn't replace the battery. What they didn't know is that it would take $90 plus a few weeks to replace your battery.
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Weeks, again with the sensationalism.
Most of the sites I've seen that responded to this press release corroborate maybe a 7 day turnaround. With Apple Stores being across the nation. I see the service working well. You walk inside the store, fill out a form, possible get a rental unit from them, and oh look! new shiny Macs!! possibly buy a new Mac or other accessories. Return back to the store to pick up your iPhone and return rental. Two visits to the store.
IMO this is Apple managing the PR in the wake of things like the original iPod wherein there was no program in place to replace the battery nor third party vendors.
I'd also wager that by the time the battery fails, the 2nd or 3rd generation units will be available. Electircal engineering is an exact science today. They can pinpoint and manipulate the exact fail points for expected lifetime.
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Originally Posted by Walking Shadow
Give me a fucking break.
Where are they going toi get the extra battery, just walk into Wallmart and buy one?
Please.
Talk about being delusional.
You also ignore the fact that all of the memory in the damn thing gets wiped when you replace the battery, so unless you want to waste time throwing all your photos and illegal MP3's and illegal downloaded vids and address book back into the thing you have to waste time backing all that shit up on your i-pod.
Yeah, that just makes me want to rush out and buy 10 of the goddamn things.  |
The memory in my Palm gets deleted when I replace that battery. I drop it into the cradle and it syncs back.
Same thing for the iPhone. You just have to make sure that you sync before you give it up.
As far as the battery is concerned, you can buy battery packs for iPods in some stores already that were originally sold by ipodbattery.com.
You may live in bumblefuck nowhere, but I can currently go to J&R Musicworld in downtown Manhattan and purchase an iPod battery replacement. I'd be back to work in 30 minutes.
and if you don't have a J&R World near you,
Circuit City carries them too.
I don't see what the news is about this, except to take snipes at Apple.
Mind you, I don't care for Apple nor their business practices, they lost me as a customer when the Mac 128k came out, but their business model is as sound as any others out there.
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