From: "Matthew Richmond"
quoted 4 lines forget winamp! itunes is where it's at...
> forget winamp! itunes is where it's at...
> http://www.apple.com/itunes/
>
> Matthew
iPod, therefore I don't itunes.
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.
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