[Slight OT] TDPL in Russia

[Walter Bright]

retard wrote:
> Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:03:59 -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> 
>> J. What happens when the battery gets old and won't hold a charge?
> 
> You buy a new one, of course. Why this will never happen is that once a 
> new model of the iShit comes out, as a die hard Apple fan you simply MUST 
> buy it and get rid of the old one. I heard they don't even replace the 
> batteries in Apple's repair services. They just hand you a new phone.

It's the subscription model for hardware. It also effectively kills the market 
for used iPods.