Sunday, December 21, 2003

Apple iPod's non-replaceable battery makes it an expensive disposable toy Slashdot covers the Washington Post Covers Ipod Battery Ruckus with the usual Slashdot disclaimers - reading at a threshold of 4 or 5 improves the discussion and speeds the read. The article, a long one, was in the Concord (NH) Sunday Monitor as well. Apple's screwed up pretty badly on this one, while taking over the MP3 player field and making a cool tool. I hope they extract themselves gracefully - lowering the replacement battery costs as low as possible, and making future models with a user-replaceable component. 9:51:16 AM    comment []

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