Comments on: Data Crystal

By: peterb

peterb — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 17:24:00 +0000

Hi. You are all guests in our house. Please lay off the personal attacks on our other guests posthaste. Except for the cousin-lovers and the vegan cat freaks; feel free to insult them all you want.

Thanks IN ADVANCE

-peterb

By: Amos the Poker Cat

Amos the Poker Cat — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 16:35:37 +0000

Foolish. Yes. Got that right.

By: Nat

Nat — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 01:52:07 +0000

Yeah, by “have to” you clearly meant “you could or there’s another option I’m just not going to mention”.

How foolish of me not to notice.

By: Amos the Poker Cat

Amos the Poker Cat — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 23:12:22 +0000

Trust me, my cell phone has zero bling, nada fung shui, definately lacks elegance.

Nat old boy, if you think that was whining then you obviously have not read any of my other posts.

Ya, I googled, but you did not even read the nine words you quoted. “pay $59 every 1.5 to 2 years to Apple“ I did not say there wasn’t a third party option.

Have you looked at the video of cracking open a nano? A regular iPod, or even a mini, I would have no problem trying to replace the battery. The nano looks like a pain to replace.

How much use are people estimating? The quotes I saw is 8 hours a day every day for 1.5 to 2 years ends up being around 500 full charge cycles.

I wonder how long are they going to hold 80% of the market. How big is the market? How much of that is people buying multiple iPods? I only watched part of the webcast.

By: Nat

Nat — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 15:29:27 +0000

The battery in my 2nd-generation 10GB iPod finally started to go a couple months ago, so I ordered a high capacity battery that claimed it’d give me a 22-hour battery life. It cost maybe $30-$40, and installing it took five minutes.

My wife’s iPod is just as old, though, and her battery is fine.

By: psu

psu — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 14:15:17 +0000

I have a variety of iPods dating back to the original 5GB.

None has needed a new battery.

The life of the battery depends a lot on usage patterns and luck.

By: Nat

Nat — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 13:58:47 +0000

Hey Amos, do a little research before whining.

You don’t have to “pay $59 every 1.5 to 2 years to Apple”. There are far cheaper replacement batteries available, the replacement procedure is simple, and the “they all die in 18 months” thing is an urban legend.

Google is your friend; go look it up.

By: peterb

peterb — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 13:56:32 +0000

Your cellphone lacks elegance.

Thinking of the iPod as “just” a consumer electronics device is the exact same mistake made by those companies that have spent millions of dollars building MP3 and WMA players that have utterly failed to capture 80% of the market.

Mind you, there’s nothing “wrong” with being in the 20% of the market that doesn’t care about the elegance of your MP3 player. But I think that the sales figures decisively validate many of the design decisions behind the iPod.

By: Amos the Poker Cat

Amos the Poker Cat — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 06:03:13 +0000

How about the mobiBLU DAH-1500 cube? Data, music, and jewelry.

http://www.mobibluamerica.com/dah1500.html

The thing that pisses me off about all the iPods is the enclosed battery. My cell phone has a user friendly easy to replace battery. Why not the iPod? Or do I have to pay $59 every 1.5 to 2 years to Apple?

Oh, thinking of cracking open that nano. Here is a video pod cast of a former TechTv guy doing just that.

http://revision3.com/systm/subsystm/ipodnano/