iPod NOT

[leelastarsky]

My SECOND iPod just died. This was a replacement for my first iPod, which also died. Seems these delightful devices have a lifespan of SIX MONTHS almost to the day. My first iPod was a xmas present from hubby last yr and had to be replaced in June. To say I am LIVID would be the understatement of the century.
I have no doubt I will get a replacement for it - it's still under it's original warrantee and hubby had the good sense to buy extra on top of that - BUT I was (I don't think unreasonably) expecting to use it on the 2.5hour drive I'll be doing 3 days from now! In fact I was planning to buy a car attachment for it tomorrow...
Even if I got a replacement iPod tomorrow (which I know I won't because they'll have to send it back to the factory to prove that it can't be revived before they'll give me a new one, and that will take at least 2 weeks) I wouldn't have time to reload everything I had on it.

I had sincerely hoped that the problems I had with my first iPod were just bad luck - that I was one of the small percentage of folks who were unlucky enough to get a dud. I even gave both hubby and my 14yo son iPods for xmas - both the 20g photo versions. Son was beyond delighted and has barely been seperated from it since xmas morning. Hubby now wants to return his (which is still in it's box) and get our money back.

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[suehypno.livejournal.com]

I'm so sorry to hear about your string of bad luck. I had bought my iPod Mini a week before going on my week-long beach vacation, only to have it die my first day there (lost all power and wouldn't recharge). However, I'm fortunate enough to live within minutes of TWO different authentic Mac stores (not just other stores licensed to sell knockoffs), so I took it straight in and they had it working almost immediately.

I asked my friends about why other stores like Best Buy sell iPods, and was told that these weren't actually manufactured by Mac, but by a licensed second-party--hence they're sometimes cheaper...and not as reliable. I'm wondering now if many of the folks having all these troubles are getting the knockoffs and not realizing it.

I'm selling my iPod Mini now, but not because I was unhappy with it. I just decided I was tired of having to swap music constantly and wanted a larger drive to hold ALL my music without spending so much time swapping and selecting, etc. I now have the iPod 60GB video and ADORE it!! (I already have 30GB full!)

Now, the fact that I dropped it in the parking lot the day after I bought it, and didn't notice it was missing until I was in the office--and then ran around in a dead panic for an hour until some soul blessed by God turned it in to Lost & Found...was MY fault! :^P (I still haven't recovered from that.)

[leelastarsky.livejournal.com]

Apple is too expensive here in Australia (literally twice the price of PC), and therefore has a very limited/exclusive type of clientelle, so there's like 2 Apple 'dealerships' (for want of a better word) in all of Melbourne, (a city of 4-5 million people) and none in the rest of the state at all. So 98% of iPods here are sold via the various electrical chains/approved suppliers. I really don't think Apple would be allowed to (or want to) put their label on something that wasn't their product.

The video version came out just after I'd bought the photo version for hubby, or I'd have seriously considered getting him one. Yet my son's friend has just come to visit and he has one, which he brought round for show&tell, and he hasn't been able to load any videos on it yet because apparently the software to load the videos must be purchased separately! Which I find outrageous. That should have come with the device!

I'm just working on loading as much as I can onto hubby's iPod at the moment (so I'll have SOMETHING in the car), so I'll have to see if there's a problem or special requirements for loading photos which don't come with it...