[latestmonkey]

I havent had my ipod for anywhere close to 18 months.

[d00d]

Is what true? That website doesn't work here.

[Frisco]

http://www.ipodsdirtysecret.com/

[d00d]

sigh Is this how things become urban legends? I've only had my iPod for a few months, so I don't have any personal experience to share. However, generalizing based upon a single iPod going dead after 18 months (and also note that the exact model of iPod which supposedly runs out after 18 months is absent). If this problem exists, which I'm not saying it does (I'd personally like to hear some experiences, especially from original 5GB owners), then perhaps the problem has been correct in some subsequent revision of the iPod. This just looks like someone taking out their anger on Apple like a child.

[G35]

My battery died on my original 5gig iPod last month ... I am surprised that my iPod battery lasted this long. My iPod has stayed in my auto 24/7 for the past 22 months with temps ranging from 10 to 102 degrees. My car sits outside all the time, so it is amazing how long it has lasted.
You can buy a battery replacement for < $50.

[Duke_Thomas]

It has been said elsewhere that the Apple manual claims that the iPod internal battery lasts for about 300 charges; I don't have my iPod manual with me to confirm, but at any rate since rechargable batteries do fail this should not have come as a surprise to them. Did their issue with the tech occur before 4 days ago, when the $100 replacement plan was released? It seems likely, given how much effort they have evidently expended since then. In any event, they could have just ordered a replacement battery for $60 and replaced it themselves, an option which has been available for a long time (and is still the preferable option, frankly). Some people might consider the choice between having a working product versus having a broken product and making a complete fool of yourself fairly straightforward, but at least they were thinking different.

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If this problem exists, which I'm not saying it does

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Of course it does. Rechargable batteries will eventually fail.

[CrecenS]

What is the 100$ replacement plan? I thought it cost 250$ to get a replacement if the iPod was out of warranty.
service page

[d00d]

I know rechargeable batteries fail. But placing a time frame is ridiculous. You can gauge the life in charges. By the way, is that full charges (like draining the battery) or individual charges?

[latestmonkey]

according to that page, it's only $99 for battery service.
I'm surprised Apple hasnt sent a cease and desist letter to that guy yet.

[Duke_Thomas]

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I thought it cost 250$ to get a replacement if the iPod was out of warranty.

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This issue is about replacing batteries, not replacing whole iPods, and replacing batteries through Apple costs about $100 as others have pointed out. Apparently this option was not available at the time that these people (I suppose they're people) went off half cocked. /forums/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

[Nobody]

Wow, look at all the effort they put into that. And to think, just a small bit of internet searching and they could have found replacement batteries. I just saw some recently too. Be it on these forums or elsewhere.
Some people are just plain stupid. (Also I like it how they publicly advertise them destryoing public property.)

[lkalliance]

You mean like at someplace like...www.ipodbattery.com ? Complete with tools for prying open the iPod, and instructions on-site?

[Duke_Thomas]

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You can gauge the life in charges. By the way, is that full charges (like draining the battery) or individual charges?

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Full charges, according to this link. That link also says 500 charges, so that's even better I guess. (That translates into, what, 1000 or so partial charges?)

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But placing a time frame is ridiculous.

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Some people claim that rechargable li-ion batties do tend to die after about two or three years regardless of how often you charge -- I don't know if I believe that, as my Wallstreet G3 has its original battery from 5 years ago that still keeps a charge. (Not a full charge, but a charge nonetheless.)
When looking this up I discovered that using the iPod in temperatures below 50F will adversely affect the battery, and should not be done for other reasons as well. (Who lives in a climate where it even gets to 50F during most of the year anyway? /forums/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif ) One of my favorite things to do in winter was to bundle up, go into the snow at night when it was well below freezing, and listen to my iPod while running with it in hand. I droped it twice right in the snow. My poor iPod; it's still working after more than two years of my horrible, neglectful treatment, with not even the occassional skip by way of complaint.

[Duke_Thomas]

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Wow, look at all the effort they put into that. And to think, just a small bit of internet searching and they could have found replacement batteries.

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It is made even more preposterous by how pointless their complaint is. "Rechargable batteries don't last forever!" Somehow, I doubt he'll have the good grace to feel sheepish once he realizes he was the last person on the planet to figure this out.
Idle hands... etc.