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Originally Posted by Mister Coaster
Then again, if you can afford a PHONE that costs $600, you can afford the upcharges that come with it.
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There's a big difference between being able to afford expensive things and throwing money away. This falls into the later category. It's a poor design and a poor execution and should never have made it to market (especially since they made EXACTLY the same mistake with the iPod when it was first released). The way the world and virtually every portable electronic device on the planet uses rechargeable batteries, not making it hotswap-able is really just silly.
That doesn't mean that people didn't know it was coming or anything else, but it does mean that there's no reason the ambiguous "someone" shouldn't have come up with a more elegant solution.
On a side note after reading Cynthetiq's post, I'd rather the iPod had a command for sync'ing instead of doing it automatically. The whole process devours my system's processing power for some reason (I think it's just that the windows iTunes port is horribly inefficient) so it'd be nice not to have it auto-load iTunes and go through all that just because I plug it in.