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He was told that the battery would cost $250US.  So as I understand it, 
you'd be willing to fork over that kind of money for a battery?  I also 
take it that you think that consumers should simply buy what's sold to 
them, and not complain?  If the answer to the above two questions is 
yes, I would have to conclude that you have more money than you know 
what to do with, and that you are that marketeers dream - the perfect 
consumer.  You swallow what you're fed, pay up and shut up.

Frankly I hope the majority of the Western World have more self-respect 
than you seem to exhibit.  If not, it would be fair to characterize us 
as a population of automatons - programmed to hand over dollars and 
ingest whatever form of excrement that manufacturers want to hand us.

Rob Yale


On Dec 22, 2003, at 12:14 PM, Chris Butler wrote:

> No, the guy was just too lazy to buy a new battery and replace it 
> himself, so he whined and whined about it until he got his way.
>
> ---
> Plate of shrimp
>
>
> On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 00:19:33 
> Murray McDowall wrote:
> >dfusion2000@... wrote:
> >
> >>Yeah, it sucks to know the battery will crap out.  But Apple will
> >>fix it for free if it happens in a year or you can buy an extended
> >>warranty.  Honestly though, I think after a few years most people
> >>will buy a new one, like getting a new cell phone.  Their becoming
> >>commodity (cell phones AND mp3 players).
> >
> >The point of the article in the link was that Apple originally did not
> >offer  replacement batteries. The guy at the centre of the story was 
> amazed
> >and disgusted that they just wanted him to junk the unit and buy 
> another.
> >He and his brother then applied a little pressure through the 
> multimedia
> >dramatisation they created and,  lo and behold, Apple came up with a 
> change
> >in policy. NOW they do offer a battery replacement scheme.
> >
> >


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