"Walter Bright" <newshou...@digitalmars.com> wrote in message news:i5q1u1$1bf...@digitalmars.com... > 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.
I miss the days when there was such a thing as standard battery types. [old guy swinging a cane at some kids] Why, when *I* was a lad (*cough* *wheeze*), all the battery and device manufacturers...(*hack*)...well they got together, and they decided on what they called these "standards". Yup, that was the name a' 'em (*hack* *wheeze*) And then, you could go into any store...didn't matter where ([blows nose])...and get a gadget. Any company's gadget, ain't never mattered. And when the batteries run out...well, we'd go and we'd get us s'more batteries. Yessirree. And those batteries would work with ([leans foreward]) ANYTHIN'! Ya hear me? Anythin'! Didn't matter where ya got 'em or who's name was on 'em . They'd just werk, dernnit. And you could bet on that! Yup. ([lights a pipe]) And they didn't cost no arm or leg, nether! Or void your warranty. They *made* them to werk that way. Not like you kinds these days and yer ten-packs of disposable telleyphones and single-use laptops and whatnot. Now go fetch me my pillow, boy, I'm tired!