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Does your iPod have the blues?

2.4.06
Not the musical kind, the other kind. According to New York Times' columnist Joe Nocera, if it doesn't now, it eventually will.

In "GOod Luck With That Broken iPod," Nocera delineates Apple's abysmal record in supporting iPods once they've been purchased. Battery dead? for $75 they'll replace it -- along with your entire iPod, meaning you lose all your music, including all those songs you downloaded from iTunes for 99 cents a pop (unless you've backed them up onto a computer hard drive).

Did you drop your iPod, or even just set it down a little too hard on the table? And now it doesn't work? Guess what? You broke your iPod, which is really just a hard drive encased in plastic. And there's no fixing it; and Apple won't do anything about it. You're out $400 if it's one of those full-size iPods, plus all the money you spent on the pay-for-download songs plus all the time you spent loading your toy.

And while Nocera doesn't say so, that's the key -- we need to think of iPods as toys, not electronic devices. I love my iPod Nano -- and I will take very good care of it -- but I REFUSE to let myself get emotionally attached to it and its contents so that when they day comes -- and it ultimately will -- that it croaks, I go through that dreaded feeling you get when your Windows PC won't boot up or only gives you the blue screen of death.

So much for Apple vs. Windows.

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http://select.nytimes.com/2006/02/04/business/04nocera.html





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