iPod's Clean Little Secrets

[adderslj]

C'mon, you can't have missed the iPod's Dirty Little Secret video, can you? Well, Daring Fireball didn't, and has helpfully supplied some more accurate, but less sensational slogans they could use instead.

My personal favorite:

"I'm so fucking dumb I've not only videotaped myself committing criminal vandalism, I've released the footage publicly"

Splendid.

Comments

[jfs.livejournal.com]

Oh, come on, Adam - even for a rabid Mac-head like yourself that's a lot.

Are you seriously happy that Apple want to charge you almost as much to replace the battery on an I-Pod as buying a new machine?

[adders.livejournal.com]

But they don't cost nearly that much.

The official replacement is less than £100, you can get unofficial replacements for around £50 or less. More to the point, my iPod is pushing two years old and the battery is just peachy.

The point is that the video is plain wrong in several place.

[jfs.livejournal.com]

*bletch* in the interests of accuracy, replace "want" with "wanted to" - Apple's policy has now changed, as documented on the dirtylittlesecret website.

Mea culpa.

[adders.livejournal.com]

Indeed, and the "irreplacable" battery has always been replacable through third party or do-it-yourself solutions. Incidentally, you might find http://das.doit.wisc.edu/neistatoriginal.txt">this little exchange (http://das.doit.wisc.edu/neistatoriginal.txt) showing how reluctant the film makers were to post the information about the battery replacements interesting.