[Slight OT] TDPL in Russia

[Sean Kelly]

Walter Bright Wrote:

> 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.

Then the model is broken somewhere, because Apple hardware has an incredibly high resale value.