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Andrew Hime
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Mon, 01 Nov 2004 23:26:29 -0600
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Re: [idm] one dirty rotten Apple spoils the bunch
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quoted 26 lines iPod sucks:> 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....
This was answered recently on a separate post on the list: http://www.ipodbatteryfaq.com -- The best show killed by Cartoon Network/Adult Swim: Home Movies. Season 1, Out on DVD - November 16th. http://homemovies.toonzone.net/DVD.html (Entertainment Weekly endorsed it after it was canceled - what does that tell you?) If he knows how the world works, how come he's done such an awful job? Think about that next month. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org