[Slight OT] TDPL in Russia

[Walter Bright]

Sean Kelly wrote:
> 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.

I wouldn't buy a used ipod because of the non-replaceable battery. One has no 
idea how much life is left in it. I've had a number of gadgets become useless 
once the battery would no longer take a charge.