http://ipodbattery.com/
next problem with apple ?
-=dave
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From: "seek" <eclectics@comcast.net>
To: <idm@hyperreal.org>
Sent: Monday, November 01, 2004 9:17 PM
Subject: Re: [idm] one dirty rotten Apple spoils the bunch
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Irene McC"
>> What's with hating Apple??? I'm aware of a hate campaign against
>> Windoze & all things Gates, but sitting here in South Africa I
>> haven't been aware of Apple being painted the Bad Guy.
>> Please elucidate.
>
> Apple sucks:
> http://www.darryl.com/apple.html
>
> iPod sucks:
> http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/14019.htm
> ANGRY IPOD PEOPLE ASSAULT BATTERY-PRICE SHOCKER
> December 21, 2003 -- A dead battery in the trendiest of digital music players shocked two New
> Yorkers into taking on Apple Computer and may have helped win favorable results for the wired set.
> Casey Neistat, 22, and his brother, Van, 28, stuck it to the computer company when the battery in
> Casey's iPod went kaput and Apple suggested he buy a new player.
>
> A frustrated Neistat did, but then he and his sibling got even, blasting Apple in a two-minute
> online movie.
>
> The story began when the rechargeable battery sealed inside Neistat's 18- month-old digital music
> player failed to hold a charge. Neistat's iPod, like every one Apple sells, came with only a
> one-year warranty, according to an article in the Washington Post.
>
> He went to the Apple Store on Prince Street in SoHo and called the company's tech-support line
> three times for help. Each time he was given the same line: Purchase another unit (they range from
> $299 to $499) because the cost of repairs, labor and shipping for repairing his iPod would run
> about the same as a new model.
>
> So Neistat forked over $400 for a new iPod, but then he fought back, the article said. He and his
> brother created a two-minute film, called "iPod's Dirty Secret," that soon flooded the Internet.
>
> In the flick, Neistat spray-paints a stenciled phrase, "IPOD'S UNREPLACEABLE BATTERY LASTS ONLY 18
> MONTHS," on iPod ads plastered around the city.
> etc....
>
> seek
>
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